Specialty Divisions
General Internal Medicine
As a specialty division of IU School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics is large, diverse, and active in the department’s clinical, teaching and research missions.
Led by Greg Sachs, MD, the division was one of the first three of such specialty units in the United States. The division includes primary care, geriatrics, hospital medicine, palliative medicine and global medicine and ethics. Clinicians practice at three Indianapolis health systems and at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. Researchers benefit from appointments at the Regenstrief Institute and other IU Centers.
The division conducts cutting-edge patient-centered research using an interdisciplinary approach to science. Long-standing strengths of the Division include aging research, biomedical informatics and health services research. This team of investigators values and celebrates the success of individuals for their research accomplishments and nurtures the research careers of junior faculty and trainees while advancing the departmental research enterprise.
The division offers two fellowship programs: a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship program, and a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship program.
Honors & Awards
- Dr. Ann Cottingham: Deb Cowley Staff Leadership Award, IU School of Medicine
- Dr. Nicole Fowler: Klapper Scholar Family Scholar in Aging & Family Caregiving Research
- Dr. Carrie Leathers: Midwest SGIM Award for Advocacy & Community Service
- Dr. Josh Rager: Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Scientific Presentation Award Finalist, SGIM Annual Meeting
- Dr. Kathleen Unroe: Bantz-Petronio Translating Research into Practice Award (IU-Indianapolis)
- Dr. Yan Yang: IU School of Medicine Leadership in Academic Medicine Program member
- Dr. Andy Young: Midwest SGIM Award for Excellence in Clinical Education
Professional Society Leadership
- Dr. Dawn Bravata: Chair, Veterans Health Administration Data Resource and Analytics Capability Management Board
- Dr. Jennifer Carnahan: Co-Chair, Geriatrics Commission, Society of General Internal Medicine
- Dr. Colin Halverson: ELSI Hub Collections Editor, National Institutes of Health
- Dr. Josh Rager: Ethics Committee Member, Society for General Internal Medicine
- Dr. Tony Ren: Indiana Chapter President, Society Hospital Medicine
- Dr. Titus Schleyer: Chair, American Medical Informatics Association Climiate, Health, and Informatics Working Group
- Dr. Bri Sprague: Co-Lead, Brain Interest Group, Gerontological Society of America
- Dr. Andy Young: Secretary/Treasurer, Society for General Internal Medicine Midwest
Senior Editorship Positions
- Dr. Dawn Bravata: Co-Section Editor for Quality Improvement Section, Stroke
- Dr. Areeba Kara: Associate Editor, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
- Dr. Sacha Sharp: Associate Editor, International Journal for Qualitative Studies in Education