Annual Report Fy20
DIVISION OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE ANNUAL REPORT FY20 DIVISION OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Message from the Chief 3 Faculty Listing 4 Clinical Activities 11 Quality Improvement Initiatives 16 Clinical Locations 22 Research Activities 24 Grants and Contracts Awarded 89 Teaching Activities 105 One-Year Bibliography 116 Acknowledgments 133 DIVISION OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE ur missions are to maintain excellence in patient Ocare, to provide innovations in the education and Jane Liebschutz, MD, MPH Chief training of future physicians and clinical scientists, and to advance health care and population health through Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has been taking a disproportionate toll research and discovery. on communities of color, turmoil The Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) continues has rippled across the country in its success in clinical care, research, teaching, and adminis- the wake of George Floyd’s death by tration even as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the last police in Minnesota. quarter of the fiscal year. In fact, the Division very success- In response, the DGIM has wholeheartedly fully pivoted all three realms—clinical care, teaching, and signed on as partners in the fight for social justice, committed to naming racism and research—in response to the pandemic. Our outpatient ef- systemic oppression where it exists and forts quickly pivoted to telemedicine, which we embraced speaking out in solidarity with our black col- by rapidly growing video visit volume from 5 a week to leagues, students, patients, neighbors and more than 300 a week. Video visits ensured patients still friends.
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