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Welcome from the Program Director and Section Chief

As I approach the end of my 15th year in the program director role, I have been reflecting on our Med-Peds program. I am grateful for the leadership and trainees who preceded me. I appreciate the opportunity to have worked with so many wonderful residents who have made and continue to make our program such a great success. I encourage you to think about your training and whether it was the global health elective, opportunity to be ACR or Chief Resident, the training that aided in securing your fellowship or first job or the comradery and Duke spirit – I hope you will also remember residency as a formative and exciting time! Thank you for all of your contributions to our program!

Featured alumnus 1

Graduate Updates 3

Class of 2021 4

Trainee Updates 6

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Suzanne Woods, MD

Program Director

Section Chief

Spring 2017 Newsletter

Duke Medicine-Pediatrics

Inside Featured Duke Med-Peds Alumnus:

Matthew Harbison, 2006

What are you doing now?

In my current role I am a practicing hospi-talist and the Medical Director for the Medicine Hospitalist program at the McGovern Medical School at University of Texas in Houston in the Texas Medical Center. Recently I increased my role with-in the Memorial Hermann Health System and was named the Medical Director for the Memorial Hermann Accountable Care Organization Hospital Medicine Service Line. Each of the three roles allows me insight into health care from the bedside to population health based initiatives.

How did you get to where you are now?

After completion of Med-Peds residency at Duke, I became a Med-Peds hospitalist at the University of Michigan. I met my wife in Ann Arbor who was completing her Adult Endocrinology fellowship. We moved to Houston to escape the cold and for me to become an Associate Program

Director (APD) for the Med-Peds pro-gram at the UT Houston Med-Peds Resi-dency Program. During my time as APD, the Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, in coordination with the McGovern Medical School, started a Medicine Hospitalist Program and I was asked to lead those efforts, which led to my transition from educa-tion to administration. In November 2009 we started with four physicians and have subsequently grown to cover three campuses with 30 doctors. We provide teaching services to the IM resi-dency program at UT Houston and sup-port the Stroke Center, Texas Trauma Institute, and other surgical subspecial-ties. The Medicine Hospitalist Program was recognized by Memorial Hermann for the volume and the quality of our efforts which has subsequently led me to a larger and larger role at the system level. This summer I took a new position in the health system to standardize Hos-pitalist Medicine at the 14 different campuses across the health system, as Medical Director for the Memorial Her-mann Accountable Care Organization Hospital Medicine Service Line.

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I was excited to be able to catch up with one of my classmates recently, Matthew Harbison. Cliché as it is, time flies but it’s amazing how fresh some memories are. I am proud to see and hear about the impact he is making in Hou-ston! —Jane Trinh

Featured Alumnus, Matthew

Harbison, continued

I I move among various roles, campuses, and Departments. Clinically moving between disci-plines has helped me maintain a more open approach to clinical sce-narios. What are your other non-clinical activities and how did you get in-volved in these things?

Early in the development of the Hospitalist Pro-gram, Dr. Jeffrey Katz, who is the CMO for Me-morial Hermann Texas Medical Center, gave me the advice to go to as many meetings as I could and be quiet and watch to see how individuals react and navigate the issues presented. By

learning lessons from watching, I was much better prepared to par-ticipate in committee discussions, and subse-quently to lead clinical program committees.

What had attracted you to Duke Med-Peds and/or Durham?

For me it was simply the people. I remember my recruiting visit and in particular the dinner with the residents. Scott Rob-ert was talking about the American Film Institute’s top 100 films, Jamie Fox, Anita Ying, and so many more were there. After I left, I realized that they were the

How did the combined training help you?

Med-Peds residency at Duke prepared me for much of what is going on in my life through the rigor of the program. Each year the program puts in front of you chal-lenges and responsibili-ties that stretch you to achieve more than the year before and some-times more than you thought you could. The ability to move between the two Departments provides the opportunity to compare and contrast the various strengths and opportunities of each Department. The naviga-tion skills have helped as Continued page 4

NC ACP Meeting Lix Kotzen, Courtney Lamberton, Rebecca Ruf,

and Jane Trinh

Duke Patient Safety and Quality Meeting

John Paul Shoup

Duke Patient Safety and Quality Meeting

Ashley Hanlon and Sarah Cohen

APA Regional Meeting

Ashley Hanlon and Sarah Cohen

Class of 2006: Jane Trinh,

Matthew Harbison, Sean Sharma

and Chris Carter (best class ever)

Matthew, his

wife Rocio, and

children Gabriel,

Natalia, Alanna,

Aspen and Xavier

Graduate and Faculty Updates Jordan Awerbach (2014) will be returning to Duke in Summer 2017 for an Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellowship.

Kelly Koay (2007) started a new position with Johns Hopkins Community Physicians in Baltimore in February 2017.

Sima Pendharkar (2012) was elected to the National Council for Early Career Physicians for the American College of Physicians.

Shailesh Balasubramanian (2014) matched in Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dean Miner was selected to be on the American Board of Pediatrics Informatics Task Force.

Ed Evans (2002) and Carolyn Avery (2013) were both promoted to Assistant Professors of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Duke!

Richard Chung (2009) was promoted to Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Duke.

Richard Chung (2009) received a Pediatric Gala Award on his project entitled, “Development of an Integrated Pediatric Complex Care Continuum.” These projects are specifically designed to enhance the existing care provided for our complex pediatric patients and their families.

Richard Chung (2009) joined the Board of Directors at Samaritan Health Center in Durham, NC.

Tim Mercer (2015) will be taking on a role as Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health and Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School in Fall 2017.

Callen Wilson Feeney was born on November 30, 2016, to Colby (2015) and John Feeney and big brother Jack.

GOLDEN APPLE TEACHING AWARD to Aimee Chung (2009)—Annual Award to one faculty member for excellence in Clinical Teaching from the School of Medicine.

Aimee Chung (2009) has taken on a role as associate course director for the longitudinal year long course called Capstone for the fourth year med students at Duke.

Joel Boggan (2013) has been named the Associate Program Director for Quality and Safety for the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Duke Med-Peds Spring 2017Newsletter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8E0q6l3VKY&feature=youtu.be

Matthew Harbison, continued Corey taught me as an intern what and how to do the things the right way. Dr. Tulsky taught me how to effectively navigate difficult conversations. How do you think the Duke Med-Peds Resi-dency Program helped you prepare for your career?

The expectations for high-level performance allowed me to practice the discipline and em-pathy required of a phy-sician.

What do you like to do in your free time?

My free time is dedicat-ed to raising my family. Rocio and I have 5 chil-dren which takes most of our time outside of

The Duke Med-Peds

Residency Fund

Supports our current Med-Peds

residents in a variety of

educational experiences, including

participation in research projects,

attendance at national meetings,

preparation and presentation of

scholarly work, global health

opportunities and involvement in

community outreach programs.

Please consider making a

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www.dukechildrens.org and

indicate “Duke Med-Peds

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people who could teach me how to be a doctor and so much more. Dr. Corey, Tom (Owens) and Sue (Woods) represented the program leadership and were inspiring; it rose quickly to be my 1st choice and I was honored to be selected.

Who were your mentors throughout training?

I think one of the unique aspects of our program is the mentorship between the classes. Those who came the three years before our class and those who matriculated after our class were the part of the day-to-day interactions which helped shape my vision. Tom and Sue provided the guidance and the role modeling to set me upon a career path. Dr.

work. That is a lot of soccer, tennis, dance, and meal preparation. My wife is from Puerto Rico so we get back to see her family as much as we can and let other people cook. Our chil-dren's great grandpar-ents are still alive and Abu makes the best Puerto Rican food.

Any other words of wisdom to current trainees?

The clinical knowledge will come naturally in training - pay attention to it - but the biggest opportunity for growth personally and profes-sionally is in the people who surround you. Watch them. Learn from them. Incorporate as much of what they do well into your prac-

Med-Peds current resi-

dents (Govind Krishnan,

Katie Wood, Ashley

Naughton) and former

resident (now faculty

Ann Marie Navar (2013))

advocating for vaccines

in Raleigh, NC.

Our graduating med-

peds class: Kully Wood-

ruff, Liz Kotzen, Matthew

Turissini, Amy Lee and

Bimal Patel

Duke Med-Peds Alumni at Society of

Hospital Medicine Meeting May 2017

Duke Med-Peds Spring 2017 Newsletter

Meet the Class of 2021: Welcome!

Margaret DeOliveira, MD

BS: Moravian College MD: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Hometown: Berkeley Heights,

Ruchi Doshi, MD, MPH BA: Rice University MD/MPH: Johns Hopkins Univ.

Austin Wesevich, MD, MPH BA: Washington Univ. in St. Louis MD/MPH: Washington Univ. in St. Louis Hometown: San Antonio, TX

Monty Natour, MD BA: Duke University MD: Virginia Commonwealth University Hometown: Lynchburg, VA

Claudia Leung, MD BS: Northwestern University MD: Northwestern University Hometown: Voorhees, NJ

Henry Foote, MD BS: Yale University MD: UNC - Chapel Hill

Liz Kotzen and Kully

Woodruff at Mt. Kilimanjaro

Matthew Turissini teaching

in Eldoret, Kenya

Amy Lee working in Bomet, Kenya

Duke Med-Peds Spring 2017 Newsletter

NC ACP Meeting, Durham, NC, February 24, 2017 Liz Kotzen and Alan Tesson. A Case of Edema Spiraling Out of Control. Rebecca Ruf and Jane Trinh. Lactobacillus: Friend or Foe? Irena Tan, Jared Lowe, Azalea Kim, Laura Miller, Ashley Hanlon, Manisha Bhattacharya, Lynn Bowlby, Lawrence Greenblatt. Identifying Patients Appropriate for Advance Care Planning in Primary Care: An Algorithmic Approach.

2nd place in clinical vignettes: John Paul Shoup, Dennis Abraham MD, Jane Trinh MD, and Terry Fortin MD. Cobalt Cardiomyopathy in a Young Woman. 3rd place in clinical vignettes: Courtney Lamberton, Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, Amanda Boyd, MD, Peter Kussin, MD. Comfortably hypoxic.

APA Region IV Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, February 10-11, 2017 Hanlon, A, Ladd, J, Shefferly, A, Feeney, C, Shaike, S and Parente, V. Safety in Numbers: Data From the Morbidity and Mortality Conferences of the Duke Pediatric Residency Safety Council.

Duke Health Patient Safety and Quality Conference, Durham, NC,

March 23, 2017 Safety in Numbers: Using “Learning from Defects” to Enhance the Quality of M & M Rounds FACILITATOR: Kyle Rehder, MD, FCCP, Physician Quality Officer, DUHS Patient Safety Center, Director, PCCM Fellowship, DUH; PRESENTERS: Ashley Hanlon, MD, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, PGY-3 Resident, DUH; Vicky Parente, MD, Pediatric Hospitalist, DUH

John Paul Shoup, MD; Victoria Parente, MD/MPH; Reid Chamberlain, MD; Megan Traky, MHA; Laura Edwards, BSN/RN; Zachary Long, RN; Heather S McLean, MD. Multimodal Intervention Improves Inpatient Discharge Process.

Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting, Washington D.C., April 19-22, 2017

Jared Lowe M.D., Azalea Kim M.D., David Chermak B.S., Desmond Cutler B.S., Christine Bates M.D., Jenny Van Kirk M.D., Andy Mumm M.D., Laura Miller M.D., Ashley Hanlon M.D., Manisha Bhattacharya M.D., Lynn Bowlby M.D., Lawrence Greenblatt M.D., F.A.C.P. A Population-Health Based Approach to Advance Care Planning.

Med-Peds Program Directors Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April 4-5, 2017 Ashley Hanlon M.D., Laura Miller M.D., Jared Lowe M.D Azalea Kim M.D., Lynn Bowlby M.D., Jane Trinh M.D., Lawrence Greenblatt M.D. A Population-Health Based Approach to Advance Care Planning.

Duke Pediatric Research Retreat, Durham, NC, April 18, 2017 E Kotzen, G Hall, M Chryst-Ladd, G Wu, B Lane, S Nagaraj, J Foreman, M Randles, R Lennon, D

Howell, R Gbadegesin. Basement membrane nephropathy like phenotype in a family with an

ARHGAP24 mutation known to cause familial FSGS.

Fellowship Matches Liz Kotzen—- Combined Nephrology at UNC

Amy Lee– Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Duke

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