The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) recently announced it’s upcoming leadership, which includes UNC CHER director Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, who will begin her three-year terms as of the annual meeting.
See the annoucement herePresident Elect: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc
Dr. Corbie-Smith is Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine at the School of Medicine and nationally recognized for her scholarly work on the practical and ethical issues regarding the involvement of minorities in research. She directs the Program on Health Disparities at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also the Director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute’s Community Academic Resources for Engaged Scholarships (CARES) services, and Co-Director of the Program on Health Disparities through the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
She is nationally recognized for her scholarly work and has expertise in community-engaged and patient-oriented research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical, and practical issues of research to address racial disparities in health. She has been the principal investigator of grants funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), and the National Human Genome Research Institute, among others. Since 2004, Dr. Corbie-Smith has been the PI on grants to support Project GRACE, a community-academic research partnership in Eastern North Carolina that has developed, tested, and disseminated interventions to prevent HIV and cardiovascular disease.
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) has also announced that Thomas H. Gallagher, MD will be inducted as the 40th president of SGIM at the 2017 Annual Meeting on April 22, 2017, during the Pass the Gavel Ceremony. Dr. Gallagher will serve a one-year term as president but will be on the Council as an officer for a three-year term.
Other recent elections of new Council officers and members-at-large are:
Treasurer Elect: Mark D. Schwartz, MD
Dr. Mark Schwartz is Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Population Health at New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM)
Council Members-At-Large:
Luci K. Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc
Dr. Luci Leykum is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio.
Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, MSc
Dr. Monica Peek is an Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago Medicine and Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research.