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For the first time in about 20 years, Duke family medicine residents have an inpatient presence at a Duke Health hospital.

Joshua Ward, M.D., joined the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health in 2019 as adjunct faculty and a hospitalist at Duke Regional Hospital. Ward graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 2013 and completed residency at Cabarrus Family Medicine Residency.

Jeffrey C. Eschbach, M.D., joined the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health in 2019 as an adjunct faculty member, hospitalist and director of the Family Medicine Inpatient Service at Duke Regional Hospital.

Welcome Kenny Herring, M.D., as clinical faculty in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health. Herring graduated from medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2017, and completed his family medicine residency at University of Colorado in 2020.

Welcome Andrada Delia Neacsiu, Ph.D., M.S., as a behaviorist working with the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program. Neacsiu earned a doctorate from University of Washington in 2012, and a Master of Science from University of Washington in 2008.

Duke Family Medicine residents Gabriela Plasencia, M.D., and Karen Scherr, M.D., Ph.D., received scholarships to attend the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation's Family Medicine Leads Emerging Leader Institute

Effective July 1, 2020, Sam Moon, M.D., MPH, former division chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, transitioned to associate professor emeritus after over 30 years at Du

On June 20, the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program celebrated its 2020 family medicine graduates: Cara Hall, M.D.; Nandini Kumar, M.D.; Janaka Lagoo, M.D., MPH; Adeola Phebean Oluwase, M.D., MSc; and Sameer Sood, DO.