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The Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Hypertension was established in December 2003 when separate divisions of General Internal Medicine and Hypertension combined. Marion Wofford, MD, MPH, serves as division director. The division provides primary care for adults in the University Medical Pavilion, the Jackson Medical Mall, and the Hypertension Clinic on Lakeland Drive. Dena Jackson, MD, serves as medical director of the Ambulatory Care Resident Clinic at the Jackson Medical Mall. Marshall Bouldin, MD, serves as director of the Medical Center’s Clinical Diabetes Program. He also directs the Diabetes Management Clinic, which includes the Lipid Clinic headed by Honey East, MD, the Weight Management Clinic headed by Annette Low, MD, and the Pediatric Diabetes Clinic headed by George Moll, MD. Bouldin also continues to develop the Delta Diabetes Project, which has successfully translated the Medical Center’s model of diabetes education and management into the Mississippi Delta at sites in Greenville, Cleveland, Clarksdale, and Lexington. The Medical Center’s Excellence in Women’s Health Program, headed by Annette Low, MD, was designated a National Center of Excellence for Women’s Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This prestigious designation has been awarded to only 19 programs in the country. Low founded the Center by bringing together 45 faculty members from the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Health Related Professions, Pharmacy, and Nursing into a single, multidisciplinary entity with a comprehensive approach to women’s health. Andy Brown, MD, MPH, was appointed director of the Medical Center’s Patient Safety Center, which tracks patient medication errors. He has received more than $4 million in federal funding for his safety research efforts. David Duddleston, MD, director of the Medical Center’s Medicine Consult Service, continues to develop innovative, evidence-based educational programs and consultative support for the Medical Center’s hospitals. Jimmy Stewart, MD, is in the process of developing a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics clinic that will allow fourth-year medicine/pediatrics residents to treat adult and pediatric patients in the same clinic. Dr. Stewart is the program director for Medicine/Pediatrics residents and the director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine curriculum for second year medical students. Terry Jackson, MD, and Michael Shoemaker-Moyle, MD, lead the medical student educational program for the Department of Medicine. Jackson was recently named the department’s vice chair for clinical programs, and Shoemaker-Moyle was named medicine clerkship director. Kimberly Harkins, MD, serves as one of the two residency program directors. Faculty from the Department of Medicine have ongoing pharmaceutical and federally-funded clinical trials through the Clinical Research Program, headed by Wofford. The multi-site Protein and Blood Pressure Study, ProBP, is an NIH-funded study of protein’s effect on blood pressure. | ||||||
