This article will be continually updated through the month of March 2024. Check back for more content as the month progresses. For Women’s History Month this year, we engaged a group of clinicians in responding to the question, “Who is a woman in medicine in the near or distant past who inspires you?” We posted […]
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, has won a prestigious Parker B. Francis (PBF) Fellowship in Pulmonary Research, sponsored by the Francis Family Foundation. Yu will use this $225,000 award to pursue research on his project, Mechanisms of submucosal gland hypertrophy in muco-obstructive lung […]
Late on a Monday afternoon in March, Endocrinology fellows, faculty, and staff came together to create half-burst bloom paintings. The idea for the event came from first-year fellow Darin Bagar, MBBCh, who guided her colleagues through the steps, which involved mixing paint colors, pouring them onto a canvas and then tilting the canvas as color […]
Each year, the Department of Internal Medicine recognizes excellence in science and education through a growing series of inspired lectures, each of which celebrates the lives of the people for whom they are named. We look forward to hosting prominent professors for eight of these highlighted talks each year. Below is a list of upcoming […]
Article: When I say… appreciative inquiry Authors: Bharat Kumar, Manish Suneja, Melissa Swee Journal: Med Educ. 2023 Nov;57(11):1006-1007 Excerpt: ‘This learner is fantastic and is a pleasure to have around. However, he has a problem with discussing sensitive topics with patients about cancer screening. But he has improved over the past year’. These types of […]
It has already been a week since Match Day 2024 and we are still celebrating our success and this full class of interns who will join us in late June. As our Vice Chair for Education Dr. Manish Suneja and I said last week, we are exceedingly proud of the work that went into this […]
A yearly tradition that comes on the heels of Match Day is presenting the updated map showing where our residents over the last five years attended medical school. The Carver College of Medicine produces a map showing where graduating medical students go for residency, and we also produce a map showing where our Internal Medicine […]
The following is a joint press release produced in collaboration with JAMA. Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, has been named the editor in chief of JAMA Network Open. Perencevich is the associate chair for clinical and health services research and professor of internal medicine, and the director of the Center for Access & Delivery Research and Evaluation […]
The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to introduce some of the newest members who joined us in January and February 2024 (start dates in parentheses). We are happy to welcome them to the department. Erin Christakos, MMS, PA-C (1/31/24) Erin Christakos joined the Gastroenterology and Hepatology division as a Physician Assistant, where she will […]
Below are those named to the March 2024 Internal Medicine Honor Roll—an employee recognition program where team members (providers, staff, etc.) can recognize other team members who are doing great things. We are pleased to recognize their contributions! Nominate someone today! Marie Finkbeiner, Third Year Resident Internal Medicine Nominated by Masaaki Yamada Dr. Marie is […]