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Hello internal medicine colleagues, We would once again like to update you on the status of medical students that will be rotating through various internal medicine services. As always, thank you for your amazing role in educating the doctors of tomorrow. Students are now allowed to work with patients with COVID-19. There was a new …
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Joshua Niznik, PharmD, PhD, assistant professor in the division of geriatric medicine, was awarded a 5-year K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award by the NIH’s National Institute on Aging for “Deprescribing Bisphosphonates in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia.” The study seeks to evaluate the risks and benefits of deprescribing versus continuing bisphosphonates in older nursing …
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The prevalence of obesity with sarcopenia is increasing in adults aged 65 years, and this geriatric syndrome places individuals at risk for synergistic complications. John A. Batsis, MD, associate professor in the division of geriatric medicine, led a study to investigate whether sarcopenia or sarcopenic obesity are associated with greater long-term risk of impaired cognitive …
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Cindy Feltner, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the division of general medicine and clinical epidemiology and associate director of the RTI-UNC Evidenced-based Practice Center, led a review for the US Preventive Services Task Force to update the evidence for screening for hearing loss in adults 50 years or older. The review was published in JAMA, along …
Dr. Osipov says the most rewarding part of her work is the time she spends with patients. She also says new understandings about obesity and diabetes are exciting. “We are moving beyond seeing these conditions as individual moral failings and realizing that they are imbedded in every aspect of life, from the molecular to the cellular to the systemic and the social,” she said.
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Dr. Lior Abramson was born in Israel and raised in California. After graduating from the University of California San Diego, she attended the M.Sc. Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where she studied the role of a novel protein in an in-vivo model of intestinal inflammation, followed by the Sackler School of Medicine.
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