Two Duke AHEAD members were recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine. Congratulations to Drs. Saumil Chudgar and Noppon Setji on their new appointments.
From the Department of Medicine Website:
Dr. Saumil Chudgar is a renowned clinician educator and has achieved significant recognition for his educational efforts. He has been at Duke since he began medical school here in 2001 and became a Duke GIM faculty member in 2008. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2011.
During his time at Duke, Dr. Chudgar has served in a number of critical roles as a faculty member at Duke that integrate his interest in medical education and clinical care. He has an ubiquitous influence in the Duke Medical School curriculum and teaches across all four years of medical student education and has taken several major leadership roles. For Dr. Chudgar’s clinical duties, he attends on the General Medicine services at Duke University Hospital. In this setting, he frequently has medical students, house officers, and other trainees whom he instructs in the clinical care.
Dr. Chudgar has distinguished himself as an outstanding clinical teacher. He had won multiple awards from the medical students for his teaching excellence, including the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Clinical Faculty (5 times the Thomas Kinney Distinguished Teaching Award (4 times), and the Practice Course Professionalism Award (5 times). Winning these awards on multiple years is even more impressive when you consider he has been on faculty for less than 10 years!
For someone who has distinguished himself with excellence in education and clinical care, Dr. Chudgar has also made a commendable effort at research. He has 26 referred publications to date, 7 of which he is the first or senior author. He has published in several of the top medical education journals including Academic Medicine, The Clinical Teacher, and the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.
Dr. Chudgar’s expertise in medical education research, his mentorship and teaching abilities, and his educational leadership in the Duke community make him a premier leader in General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Noppon (Pooh) Setji became a faculty member at Duke GIM in July 2003. Since then, he has served a number of critical roles as a Duke faculty member; responsibilities that integrate his clinical, research and academic interests. He has participated on the Med Surg Critical Care Core Safety Team, the Glycemic Safety Team, Service Excellence Team, Multi-Disciplinary Sickle Cell Committee, Hospital Medicine Academic Council, Familiar Faces Committee, Just Pull It Committee, GME Education Committee and multiple care redesign teams. He has been an outstanding role model and mentor to fellows and junior faculty. For Dr. Setji’s clinical duties, he serves as a hospitalist providing care to inpatients on the medical service of Duke University Hospital. In this setting, he frequently has medical students, house officers and other trainees whom he instructs in the clinical care, as well as the pathophysiology of multiple diseases and their treatments.
Dr. Setji has been extremely successful and has established himself as a leading regional and national authority on a number of hospital medicine quality improvement and patient care initiatives. In addition to his success in quality improvement, Dr. Setji has been an outstanding mentor and teacher. His curriculum vita impressively outlines his commitment as well as his success as an educator. He has supervised over 200 learners in his time here. His evaluations have been stellar with an average teaching score of 8.45 on a scale of 1-9 where 7-9 is superior. His medical student evaluations have also been extremely positive with an average score of 3.91 on a 4-point scale. This educational excellence was highlighted in 2007 by being the recipient of the prestigious Eugene Stead Teaching Award.
His commitment to leadership is evident by the roles he has taken at Duke. He has been the medical director for the 8100, 8200 and 8300 medical units at Duke University Hospital and now serves as the medical director for the Duke University Hospital Medicine Program. He also serves as the director of the Mortality Review Process for the health system.
We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. Setji as a faculty member and leader in Hospital Medicine.
Related members
Noppon Setji
Associate Professor of Medicine
Saumil Chudgar
Associate Professor of Medicine