Internal Medicine
The Creation and Translation of Knowledge
The Department of Internal Medicine is committed to the creation of new knowledge and the translation of these findings to the overall well being of patients from our community, region and nation.— Thomas D. DuBose, Jr., MD, MACP
Mission Statement
The Department of Internal Medicine is dedicated to excellence in research, education and patient care. Our over-arching mission is to achieve pre-eminence as an exceptional academic department by expanding our national reputation for innovation for translational research, patient-centered investigation, exemplary patient care and the education of the next generation of physicians.
Our ideal is to be a progressive and truly academic department consisting of a diverse and accomplished faculty that leaves an indelibly positive mark on patients, students, residents and colleagues.
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Department of Internal Medicine Annual Report
A Message from Dr. DuBose, Department Chair
Newly published research out of Wake Forest University School of
Medicine finds that a popular class of anti-inflammatory inhalers
significantly increases the risk of pneumonia in patients with
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
The study appears in the current issue of Archives of Internal
Medicine and focuses on the incidence of pneumonia in patients with
COPD who were exposed to inhaled corticosteroid drugs, either alone
or in combination with other drugs.
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has submitted a Certificate of Need application for a $152 million expansion of its Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Ultraviolet light may help relieve pain in fibromyalgia syndrome
patients, according to a preliminary study at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center conducted by dermatology,
rheumatology, and public health sciences researchers.
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Daeihagh Receives Promotion at Wake Forest BaptistWinston Salem,
N.C. Pirouz Daeihagh, M.D., a nephrologist at Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center, has been promoted from assistant
professor to associate professor of internal medicine (nephrology).
He is the medical director of
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