Every spring the Duke University School of Medicine recognizes the achievements of a number of our colleagues with the presentation of School of Medicine faculty awards. This year's faculty awards will be presented at the annual School of Medicine Spring Faculty Celebration on Tuesday, May 10 from 5:00 to 7:30 pm at Duke Gardens.
Congratulations to Aimee Chung, MD on this well-deserved honor!
Excellence in Professionalism Award
Aimee Chung, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
The Master Clinician/Teacher Awards recognize clinical practitioners who exemplify the highest standards of clinical care, pedagogy, and professionalism or to basic scientists who achieve distinction in pedagogy and professionalism.
Dr. Chung is from a small town in Eastern NC. She attended the NC School of Science & Mathematics and then traveled a few blocks down the street to attend Duke University for college. Before matriculating into medical school, she spent a year serving in City Year, an AmeriCorps program based in Seattle, WA. Afterwards she returned to Eastern NC to complete medical school at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. She found herself back in Durham for her Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (Med Peds) residency at Duke, completed a chief year in Pediatrics, and has remained on faculty ever since.
Clinically, she sees adults and pediatric patients in the outpatient setting and also does inpatient Pediatrics. Her interests include patient care and medical education for medical students and residents. She previously taught in Clinical Skills Foundation 1 (CSF1) and Clinical Skills Immersion/Clinical Skills Course (CSI/CSC) and was the Director of the Capstone Course before transitioning to the Advisory Dean role. She has enjoyed teaching and witnessing students' clinical growth from the first through fourth years, where Duke medical students have endured her zany mnemonics. She continues to teach in the Capstone Course, as a small group faculty member. Now as an Advisory Dean, she looks forward to guiding students in their journey through medical school in other ways.