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Core Faculty

The Yale Department of Internal Medicine has a large and diverse faculty comprised of clinicians, physician-scientists, and clinician-educators who are leaders in their areas of expertise. Common to all faculty is a strong commitment to our educational programs. Our core faculty include Directors and Associate Directors of the three residency programs in our Department, Firm Chiefs at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Waterbury Hospital and a group of full-time faculty who have ongoing contact with the houseofficers throughout all three years of training. Among the core faculty of the Primary Care Residency is a group of academic general internists who are fulltime members of the Yale Section of General Internal Medicine. Their main offices are at the community hospital site where they attend on the wards and provide all of the continuity clinic precepting. These faculty have been hired by the Department because of their excellence as clinicians and educators as well as their expertise in graduate medical education and curriculum development. Program faculty have developed published curricula that are now used by many other Internal Medicine residency programs.

To assist each resident in his or her individual growth, we have developed a structured advisor program. Each houseofficer is assigned a member of the core residency faculty to serve as a primary advisor/mentor. We designate the resident’s continuity clinic preceptor for this role thus establishing an advising and mentoring relationship right from the start of residency with a faculty member who over time will develop a longitudinal educational role with the trainee and who will be well-positioned to provide ongoing, formative and summative feedback. The advisors are responsible for performing routine clinical evaluation exercises, reviewing biannual summary evaluations and developing an education action plan.

Listed below are the core faculty of the Primary Care Residency along with other members of our Department’s full-time faculty who have ongoing, meaningful contact with the housestaff.

Stephen H. Huot, MD, PhD, Program Director, Primary Care Residency, Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Associate Chair for Education/Academic Affairs

Stephen R. Holt, MD, MSc, Associate Program Director, Ambulatory Education, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Donna Windish, MD, MPH, Associate Program Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Steven Aronin

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Infectious Disease
Hospital Epidemiologist

Lydia Barakat

Assistant Professor of Medicine (AIDS)
Medical Director Nathan Smith Clinic
Program Director, HIV Primary Care Training Track

Office:(203) 688-2685
Appt:(203) 688-5303

William Becker

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Office:(203) 932-5711 x2427

Gretchen Berland

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Office:(203) 737-5157

Rebecca Brienza

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Director, VACHS Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education

Office:(203) 932-5711 x5362

Jo-anne Cosgriff

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Gary Desir

Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Associate Chair, Veteran Affairs

Office:(203) 932-1x24 x24

Benjamin Doolittle

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Pediatrics
Director, Int Med-Pediatrics Residency Program

Office:(203) 785-7941
Appt:(203) 688-5555

Jack Elias

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Professor of Immunobiology
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine

Office:(203) 785-4119
Appt:(203) 785-4119

Rosemarie Fisher

Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education

Office:(203) 688-1449
Appt:(203) 785-4138

Auguste Fortin, VI

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Office:(203) 785-3659

Michael Green

Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Office:(203) 573-6510
Appt:(203) 573-7284

Stephen Holt

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Project Director, HIV and Alcohol research study
Associate Program Director, Ambulatory Education, Yale Primary Care Residency Program

Office:(203) 573-6580
Appt:(203) 573-7284

Stephen Huot

Professor of Medicine (Nephrology)
Vice Chair, Education and Academic Affairs
Program Director, Primary Care Residency Program

Appt:(203) 785-4138

Marcella Nunez-Smith

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Faculty, Global Health Leadership Institute