An Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Daniella Zipkin oversees medical residents and lectures on evidence-based medicine. In a 16 hour course on evidence-based medicine, she discusses study design, bias and random error, diagnosis, screening, treatment, harm, and application of results to individual patients. During the course, residents ask their own clinical question, receive assistance in searching the literature for the best answer, and present their findings in mini-journal club style to the group.
Earning her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Daniella Zipkin pursued her medical education at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where she graduated with her Doctor of Medicine in 1999. Focusing on internal medicine, she completed a residency in primary care at New York University and Bellevue Hospital before gaining a clinician-educator fellowship with UC San Francisco. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Daniella Zipkin practiced medicine in California for five years before moving to Duke in 2007.
Active in the medical community, Dr. Daniella Zipkin participates as a member in the American College of Physicians and the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). She has served in a supportive role for the Ethics Committee and Continuing Medical Education Committee of California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC). Additionally, Dr. Daniella Zipkin oversaw CPMC’s Pharmaceutical Industry Relations Committee as Chairperson and contributed to the development of policies for the residency program. Dr. Zipkin is currently a member of the Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force at SGIM.