The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center (Division of Infectious Diseases) hosted a volunteer appreciation event at the Fernbank Science Museum on November 21. Former and current volunteers who participated in Hope Clinic research studies…
Emory aims to decrease disparities in health care by fostering diversity in the physician workforce. The Emory University Department of Medicine leadership team is committed to recruiting, retaining, and supporting outstanding residents with diverse racial and cultural identities and…
Emory University’s J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program is nationally ranked. The program, led by Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, offers several residency training pathways, including: Categorical and primary care pathways American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) research pathway Medicine/psychiatry pathway…
Greg Martin, MD, MSc (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) was appointed to an international advisory committee to provide guidance and input for a new critical care clinical trials network, PETAL (prevention and early…
Governor Nathan Deal named November “Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Awareness Month” in Georgia. Micah Fisher, MD (program director for the Emory Pulmonary Hypertension Program) recently accompanied Emory patient and leader of the Savannah Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group Linda…
New research on how excess parathyroid hormone affects immune cells suggests that doctors could repurpose existing drugs to treat hyperparathyroidism without surgery. Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids Division Director, Roberto Pacifici, MD, teamed up with doctors from…
Congratulations to this year’s Emory Univerisity Department of Medicine Research Day award winners: Clinical, Quality, and Health Services Research Posters 1st Place: Ho Lim Lee (Renal Medicine) 2nd Place: Salim Hayek, MD (Cardiology) 3rd Place: Carlos del…
Emory residents Deep Shah, MD; Cameron Body, MD; Richard Ramonell, MD; and Jancy Mathew, MD describe their day-to-day lives as residents in Emory’s internal medicine residency program. “There are a few things I feel make a good, effective…
On October 9, at the Infectious Diseases Society of America‘s IDWeek2015 in San Diego, Carlos del Rio, MD (Division of Infectious Diseases) was named chair of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), and Wendy Armstrong, MD, FIDSA, FACP (Division of…
William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, director of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program, will present the inaugural Paul W. Seavey Distinguished Lecture, “The NIH: Undiagnosed Diseases Program & Network,” Tuesday, October 20 at noon in the…