Gloria Trujillo, MD
Medical Director
Gloria Trujillo, MD joined Duke Family Medicine as an attending faculty member in August 2006. She currently holds the role of Medical Director of the Family Medicine Center, is actively involved with the residency and loves seeing her patients in clinic.
Dr. Trujillo graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1992 and completed her Family Practice Residency training at Fairfax Family Practice Centers outside Washington, D.C. in 1995. She brings to Duke Family Medicine a fresh perspective from the private practice realm to the academic medicine setting. She worked for Fairfax Family Practice Centers in private practice for 3 years and precepted low risk deliveries with family practice residents. She also worked for Kaiser in the Rocky Mountain Division for three 3 years where she learned a great deal about cost containment, quality assurance and played a large role in rolling out the electronic medical record. The six years prior to coming to Duke Family Medicine she had the opportunity in Maine to set up and grow a practice as Senior Managing Family Physician at South Berwick Family Practice Center located in South Berwick, Maine. She joined the academic environment as an opportunity to share her experiences and to help develop new doctors to be prepared for the ever changing healthcare arena.
"The traditional method of training no longer works in today's healthcare environment from both a business survival perspective and taking care of patients with all the preventative and chronic disease management goals we currently deal with. We reopened with a fresh innovative way to train family physicians to provide care for their community of patients, survive today's health care demands from a quality and business sense and have a balanced family life style. We are far ahead of the curve here at Duke with supportive extensive leadership both at the local and the national level. We have an innovative and inspirational environment and the support to transition to a true team based care with available access and chronic disease management care with a patient centered focus."
She loves to teach new learners and is involved at both the practice course level with medical students and at the residency level to make sure the role of the faculty and the clinic parallels the ideals of training the new family physician. She works directly with our family medicine residents teaching procedures.
Her professional interests include chronic disease management, sports medicine, pediatrics, acupuncture and development of team based care.
She enjoys time with her family which includes her two teenage children. They love to travel, to do outdoor activities, and to go to the beach. Both her children are heavily involved in sports and they are true sports buff fanatics - soccer, basketball and baseball!
