Duke internal medicine physicians provide preventive, chronic, and acute care to their patients.

Preventive Care

Preventive care includes annual exams and well visits for flu shots or other vaccinations. Regular screenings -- such as Pap smears, prostate exams, and other diagnostic tests -- help to safeguard your health and well-being.

New preventive services that are being offered in certain practices include genetic testing for medical conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer and blood clotting disorders. Genetic testing can also serve as a resource to you if you have chosen to have genetic testing done on your own as a consumer.

Chronic Care

Chronic care includes management of chronic illnesses and conditions, including hypertension, back pain, high cholesterol, asthma, and diabetes, which require long-term treatment and coordination of care.

Acute Care

Acute care includes treatment for occasional illnesses and injuries, such as coughs and colds, urinary tract infections, abdominal pain, and chest pain.

The most common reasons our patients visit our clinics are for treatment of:

• Hypertension
• General medical exams
• Diabetes
• High cholesterol
• Abdominal pain
• Management of blood thinners (coumadin/warfarin)
• Routine gynecologic exams
• Chest pain
• Lower back pain
• Heart disease

Other common reasons that patient visit us include:

• Pain in an extremity
• Coughs and other respiratory illnesses
• Urinary tract infection
• Asthma
• Vaccinations, including flu shots
• Acute upper-respiratory infection
• Malaise and fatigue
• Hypothyroidism
• COPD (emphysema)
• Pneumonia
• Anxiety
• Headache

Urgent Care

If you need medical care after clinic hours, the services of Duke Urgent Care or Duke University Emergency Care are available.

In an emergency situation, always call 911.

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Adams, Martha B.
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Aderoju, Elizabeth O.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Black, Tracy M.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Blackford, Susan P.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Coleman, Arnett
  • Duke Primary Care / Metropolitan Durham Medical Group
• Cooper, Vidette V.
  • Duke Primary Care / Harps Mill Internal Medicine
• Devalapalli, Vandana P.
  • Duke Primary Care / Harps Mill Internal Medicine
• Fleming, Ron D.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Griffiths, William O.
  • Duke Primary Care / Harps Mill Internal Medicine
• Halbrooks, Ronald F.
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Harris, Robert T.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Creedmoor Road
• Hart-Brothers, Elaine M.
  • Duke Primary Care / Metropolitan Durham Medical Group
• Jenkins, Sharrah E.
  • Duke Primary Care / Harps Mill Internal Medicine
• Joy, Scott V.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Lausier, Evangeline R.
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Lee, Sabina M.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Leigh-Fleming, Jan A.
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Meredith, Michael
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Paterson, Robert W.
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Peyser, Bruce T.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Phelps, Anne F.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine
• Ramsey, Colleen
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Schecodnic, Heidi L.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Creedmoor Road
• Schneider, Richard J.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Creedmoor Road
• Shipley, Michael B.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Toher, Raymond J.
  • Duke Primary Care / Durham Medical Center
• Uthe, William F.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care of Galloway Ridge
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Verka, Lisena G.
  • Duke Primary Care / Sutton Station Internal Medicine
• Waite, Kathleen A.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  • Medicine / General Internal Medicine

Locations

This service is available at:

• Duke Health Center of Clayton
  11618 US Highway 70 Business West, Suite 200A, Clayton, NC 27520
• Duke Health Center of Sanford
  1301B Carthage Street, Sanford, NC 27330
• Duke Primary Care Creedmoor Road
  7200 Creedmoor Road, Suite 208, Raleigh, NC 27613
• Duke Primary Care Pickett Road
  3024 Pickett Road, Durham, NC 27705
• Duke Primary Care of Galloway Ridge
  3000 Galloway Ridge, Pittsboro, NC 27312
• Durham Medical Center - Internal Medicine
  4220 North Roxboro Road, Durham, NC 27704
• Harps Mill Internal Medicine
  7021 Harps Mill Road, Raleigh, NC 27615
• Metropolitan Durham Medical Group
  1901 Hillandale Road, Suite F, Durham, NC 27705
• North Hills Internal Medicine
  3320 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Sutton Station Internal Medicine
  5832 Fayetteville Road, Suite 113, Durham, NC 27713