Category: Highlights

Quality & Innovations Scholars Program Symposium

  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School @ Duke hosted its second annual quality symposium on April 20, 2016, showcasing the work of the 2015-2016 Quality & Innovation Scholars. These efforts were recognized with $3000 in scholarships to represent Duke at the 2016 IHI National Forum that takes place this December in Orlando, Florida. Multiple …

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Lantos published in JAMA Diagnostic Lab Interpretation

Paul Lantos, MD, does quite a bit of research about tracking and identifying Lyme disease. His work was recently was published in a JAMA Diagnostic Test Interpretation, a new JAMA series in quiz format showing a patient’s clinical presentation and test result(s).

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GIM shows out in resident vs. faculty basketball game

Duke residents and faculty entered the legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday, April 28, for the annual resident vs. faculty basketball game. Duke General Internal Medicine had 6 participants this year, including 2 referees, Christopher Hostler, MD, and Joel Boggan, MD, and 4 players Stephen Telloni, MD; Pooh Setji, MD; Adam Wachter, MD; and Joseph Brogan, …

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Maciejewski selected for AcademyHealth Methods Council

We are pleased to announce Matthew Maciejewski, PhD, was recently selected to join the AcademyHealth Research Council for a three year term! This council is comprised of experts in the variety of fields that represent health services research and health policy.

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Most Viewed Tweets for DGIM

Do you tweet? If you haven’t tried, Twitter is actually a great way to quickly get information about research and publications – after all, Twitter does have about 320 million monthly active users many of whom are healthcare professionals, publishers of academic journals, and organizations. If you didn’t know, Duke General Internal Medicine has a Twitter …

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Simel edits another JAMA Rational Clinical Exam publication

As you may know, David Simel, MD, Chief of Medicine in the Durham VA, is an editor of the Rational Clinical Examination Series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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Faculty Spotlight: Clay Musser, MD

Meet Clay Musser, MD, a DGIM hospitalist and board certified clinical informatician. Clay is a well-respected leader in the deployment of Duke’s electronic medical record, Maestro Care. He contributes significantly to clinical content architecture across the entire enterprise of Duke. Notice the impact of mentors in his career path.

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First Quarter 2016 – GIM Funding Awards

Congratulations to these general medicine faculty members who are recipients of research funding for the first quarter of 2016.

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Dr. Zipkin joins SGIM Education Committee

We are pleased to announce the SGIM acceptance of Daniella Zipkin, MD, to a three year term on the Education Committee. This particular committee is the most popular in SGIM and there were a limited number of openings. Dr. Zipkin is a clinician-educator. She is the GME Associate Director for Ambulatory Care. Recently she completed a five-year …

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Voils on Successful Grant Writing

This blog post submitted by: Corrine Voils, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine.  Did you know? If you are preparing a grant, there are resources at Duke to help increase chances of success!

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