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Daniella
Zipkin

Dr. Daniella Zipkin is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Durham, North Carolina

With over a decade of medical training and experience as a clinician, researcher, and teacher, Dr. Daniella Zipkin is a respected doctor and faculty member at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. As a clinician and educator, Dr. Zipkin plays a role in teaching residents how to effectively use evidence-based medicine to treat patients. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Duke University Medical Center.

Since joining Duke University Medical Center in 2007, Dr. Daniella Zipkin has incorporated the practice of evidence-based medicine into teaching and patient care. As teacher of the Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum at the Duke University Internal Medicine Residency Program, Dr. Zipkin leads a 16-hour course covering topics such as study design, bias and random error, diagnostic testing, evaluating studies of therapeutic interventions, and applying results to patients . Dr. Zipkin has also studied the impact of the curriculum itself in terms of efficacy in improving residents’ knowledge and skills, and she has presented these positive results nationally.

In addition to curriculum development, Dr. Daniella Zipkin serves as a faculty member for several courses and seminars through the Duke University Internal Medicine Program, including pharmaceutical industry conflicts of interest, doctor-patient communication, and motivational interviewing for behavior change. Outside of Duke University, Dr. Daniella Zipkin joined the Society of General Medicine’s Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force and is currently working in collaboration with other clinical researchers on The Bottom Line Project, an effort to create brief summaries of high impact research findings for use in physician-patient communication.

Dr. Daniella Zipkin attended medical school at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and was a Primary Care Resident at Bellevue Hospital Center through the Department of Internal Medicine at New York University. She completed a clinical-educator fellowship at UCSF’s Division of General Internal Medicine before joining the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco as an Attending Physician. Dr. Daniella Zipkin currently lives in Cary, North Carolina.


Daniella Zipkin's Schools

Daniella Zipkin's Companies

  		•  Duke University Medical Center 2007 - Durham, North Carolina
    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Division of General Internal Medicine. Clinician-educator in the Duke internal medicine residency teaching clinic. Ambulatory teaching and practice. Ward Attending, Durham Regional Hospital and Duke Hospital, yearly. Primarily precept/supervise medical residents in training, also have a clinic panel of own patients, and teach a curriculum in Evidence-Based Medicine. Elected to the SGIM EBM task force in 2010, and my idea for a project has become the Task Force's primary work.

Daniella Zipkin's Publications

  • Letter to the Editor. Medicare Beneficiaries and Free Prescription Drug Samples: A National Survey., Journal of General Internal Medicine
    October, 2008
    Zipkin DA. 2008 Oct; 23(10):1726
  • Pharmaceutical Representatives and Doctors in Training. A Thematic Review., Journal of General Internal Medicine
    August, 2005
    Zipkin DA, Steinman MA. 2005 Aug; 20(8):777-786
  • The Feasibility of a Telemonitoring Service as an Adjunct to the Outpatient Care of Heart Failure Patients., Congestive Heart Failure
    January, 2000
    Nanevicz T, Zipkin D, Serlin M, et al. 2000; 6(3):140-145
  • The Suitcase Clinic: A Portable Solution., Journal of the American Medical Association
    January, 1995
    Rahaghi F, Zipkin D. 1995; 273:75
  • Dr. Daniella Zipkin on Bravo’s Top Chef, Dr. Daniella Zipkin
    November, 2011
    An assistant professor of medicine at the Duke University Medical Center, Dr. Daniella Zipkin pursues many hobbies in her free time. A self-avowed food enthusiast, Dr. Zipkin enjoys fine cuisine and watching shows about cooking. One of her favorite shows is Bravo’s Top Chef, a cooking competition hosted by Padma Lakshmi and judged by culinary industry luminaries such as Chefs Tom Colicchio and Eric Ripert.

    Currently, Top Chef is in its ninth season, with 29 chefs competing in 2 challenges for each episode: the Quickfire Challenge and the Elimination Challenge. In the Quickfire Challenge, the chefs are given certain parameters, such as a specific ingredient and a very limited amount of time in which to cook. The winners of the challenge may receive an advantage in the upcoming Elimination Challenge, or in some cases, immunity from being eliminated from the competition for one episode. In the Elimination Challenge, chefs may be asked to cook based on a theme, prepare a meal for an event, or utilize varying ingredients. They are then given a set shopping budget, prep time, and cooking time. A group of judges and guests eats and assesses the food, and the chef with the poorest evaluations is eliminated from the show.

    Top Chef is not only a showcase for some of the country’s hottest chefs, it’s an opportunity to get some insight into how their minds work when they cook. Hearing their approach to food is interesting, and always offers more to learn. Naturally, at the end of the day, Top Chef is also a reality show. It can be entertaining to remember that chefs are people too, with all of their attendant quirks and issues.