Category: Publications

Weight loss after bariatric surgery sustained long-term! Maciejewski et al in JAMA Surgery

Within three days, this online first by DGIM authors published in JAMA Surgery boasts an altmetric score of 120 — besides tweets, blogs, and facebook, there were 11 news outlets and this one by CBS News: “Do the benefits of weight-loss surgery really last?” The lead author is Dr.Matthew Maciejewski and the paper is “Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Durability …

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Schulman’s JAMA Viewpoint

Kevin Schulman, MD, is a renowned clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke general internal medicine. Last week’s issue (August 16, 2016) of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows Dr. Schulman as an author of a Viewpoint article titled “Reassessing ACOs and Health Care Reform.” The co-author, Barak D. Richman, JD, is a colleague of …

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Dr. Gray’s illustration in Annals Graphic Medicine

This isn’t the first time, and I’m sure it won’t be the last either! Our own palliative care physician and amateur cartoonist, Nathan A Gray, MD, continues to doodle his way in to another web-only Annals Graphic Medicine! This is where Annals of Internal Medicine brings together original graphic narratives, comics, and other creative forms by those who provide or receive …

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Clough + McClellan present JAMA Viewpoint about Medicare payment overhaul

Dr. Jeffrey Clough and Dr. Mark McClellan recently published this online first JAMA Viewpoint about the upcoming overhaul of the Medicare payment system. Clough JD, McClellan M. Implementing MACRA: Implications for Physicians and for Physician Leadership. JAMA. Published online May 23, 2016. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.7041. PMID:27213914 [Link]

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Large DGIM group led by Dr. Duan-Porter in Annals of IM

Recently (April 26, 2016) a large group led by first author Wei Duan-Porter, MD, PhD, and senior author John W. Williams Jr., MD, MHSc, from Duke GIM published a systematic review in the Annals of Internal Medicine entitled “Reporting of Sex Effects by Systematic Reviews on Interventions for Depression, Diabetes, and Chronic Pain.” Our researchers showed that Systematic Reviews (SRs) have the …

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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 …

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Schulman co-authors NEJM Perspective on Health Care Tax Inversions

Clinical researcher and faculty member of Duke GIM,  Kevin Schulman, MD, recently co-authored a perspective article in The New England Journal of Medicine entitled,  “Health Care Tax Inversions – Robbing Both Peter and Paul”. The other author on this article, Haider Javed Warraich, M.D, is a colleague of Schulman’s from Harvard where Schulman is a visiting professor of business …

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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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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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Doodling Doctor Gray

Our own palliative care physician and amateur cartoonist, Nathan A Gray, MD, was recently featured in a web-only Annals Graphic Medicine, which is where Annals of Internal Medicine brings together original graphic narratives, comics, and other creative forms by those who provide or receive health care. These graphics address medically relevant topics—be they poignant, thought-provoking, or just plain …

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