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New! HIV Training Track

Lydia BarakatLydia Barakat, MD
Yale HIV Training Track Program Director 

July 20, 2012 -- Lydia Barakat, MD is the Program Director for the Yale Internal Medicine HIV Training Track which is a three year track and is available to residents in either the Yale Categorical Traditional or Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. 

In addition to the standard Internal Medicine training, residents will learn to provide state-of-the-art longitudinal primary care to a cohort of HIV-infected patients as part of a multidisciplinary team at the Nathan Smith Clinic. Faculty preceptors will be both experts in both Primary Care and HIV medicine. The trainee will also rotate on our inpatient unit comprised of a Faculty Attending (an Infectious Disease specialist), 1 resident, 1 intern, and 1 or two Yale medical students.  Read more...

New Online Tool Designed To Promote Collaborations Among Yale Researchers

YCCI Research Accelerator (RA)
March 19, 2010— Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care. more...

Yale Researchers Seek Older Adults for Study Of the Effects of Exercise and Health Education on Mobility Disability

LIFE Study
March 17, 2010— Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.more...

New Method to Grow Arteries Could Lead to “Biological Bypass” for Heart Disease

Biological Bypass
March 9, 2010— A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass”—a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease—Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. more...

Dr. Sherwin named new chief of endocrinology at Yale-New Haven Hospital

Robert Sherwin, MD
March 4, 2010 — Robert S. Sherwin, MD, an internationally renowned diabetes researcher, has been appointed chief of endocrinology in the department of internal medicine at YNHH and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Sherwin, C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine at Yale, has been an attending physician at Yale-New Haven since 1974. He is also a consulting physician at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven. more...