Did You Know? The Internal Visiting Professorship Program offers Department of Medicine faculty the opportunity to spend a day in another division, exchanging ideas and building both collaboration and collegiality. Visiting Department of Medicine faculty…
Madeleine E. Hackney, PhD (principal investigator), co-investigators Molly Perkins, PhD, MA and Rebecca Dillard, MA (Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics), and patient stakeholder advisors Ron Wincek and Dave Jones were awarded $20,000 by the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) for their project,…
Congratulations to Emory Department of Medicine faculty members Kari Esbensen and Christopher O’Donnell. Esbensen and O’Donnell received this year’s Fostering the Academic Mission in the Emory Department of Medicine (FAME) Grant. The FAME Grant program enables Emory Department of Medicine…
Please join the Emory University Department of Medicine for Celebratory Grand Rounds, where we will announce our 2016 Faculty Award winners. Each year, faculty are nominated for Department of Medicine Faculty Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions. Nominations…
The Enhancing Quality of Provider Practices for Older Adults in the Emergency Department (EQUiPPED) project is an interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative that focuses on using education, “geriatricized” medication order sets, and other clinical tools to reduce medication-related…
Last week, Emory University Department of Medicine members met for the third annual quality research symposium to discuss and learn more about the breadth of quality, effectiveness, and value-based research activities at Emory University. Top…
Did you know? The Department of Medicine offers proposal development and grant-writing support to its full-time faculty. This includes: Preparing applications for NIH K or similar career development awards Grant-writing assistance and application feedback Critical feedback…
Dean P. Jones, PhD is a professor of medicine in the Emory University Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. His central research focus is on redox mechanisms of oxidative stress. He currently directs the…
Molly Perkins, PhD, MA has been thinking about how to take good care of older adults for a long time, and that’s a good thing. Perkins, a social gerontologist and medical sociologist who joined the…
People with systemic lupus erythematosus can experience several symptoms, including fatigue, joint pain, skin rashes, and kidney problems. Often, these symptoms come in attacks called “flares.” In patients with lupus, the immune system becomes confused…