Does this picture look familiar? You may have seen Dr. Adam Perlman on the front page of The Herald Sun recently for an article entitled, “Doctor: Tackle pain from different angles”. In the article, executive director of Duke Integrative Medicine and faculty member in general internal medicine, Adam Perlman, MD, talks about the single shot approach to pain …
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Residents led by Dr. Zipkin advocate on Capitol Hill for opioid safety
A group of Duke Internal Medicine residents traveled to Washington, D.C., last week as part of the Ambulatory Care Leadership Track’s focus on advocacy. Throughout the year, the ACLT residents plan and prepare for the trip, where they meet with representatives in Congress. This year the residents prepared a one-page paper on opioid safety with help from Duke …
Students stellar, SGIM presentation prompts over 30 tweets!
Three Duke medical students — Jerry Lee, the presenter, Morgan Hardy, and Julie Rivo — all mentored in the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) including their co-authors Marigny Bratcher and Natasha Cunningham, gave a truly excellent presentation during an opening plenary session at SGIM 2016. Their topic was the “Duke Hotspotting Initiative (DHSI): Integrating Medical Education with Community-Based Care Coordination.”
SGIM 2016 news and photos
Ocean? ✔️Check. Amazing conference? ✔️Check. Where can we begin? Posters, oral presentations, gatherings? Everything was inspiring. It was a privilege, too, being around special people such as Dr. Karen DeSalvo, a general internist and Acting Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services.The Duke med students were hot, giving an extremely well received …
Skinner’s obesity research gains much attention
Asheley Skinner, PhD New member of DGIM and DCRI, Asheley Skinner, PhD, has been conducting research in the fields of health policy, health services, and population health. She is the lead author of a new study: “Prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in US children, 1999-2014” and this publication is gaining a great deal of attention. With an Altmetrics …
NIH Announcements
- Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42)
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Developing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice for Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship Awards to Support Training in Research Related to Down Syndrome as Part of the INCLUDE Project
