Basmah Safdar MD, FACEP

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Co-Chair, Chest Pain Center; Director, YNHH Women's Heart Program

Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Emergency Medicine

Research Interests

Clinical research; chest pain center; women and cardiovascular disease; gender research; cardiac biomakers; cardiovascular disease; coronary risk factors; depression; disparities; education; chest pain in a multidimensional model; pain; perception; women's health; microvessel disease; endothelial reactivity more...

Education

• M.D., Aga Khan University, Pakistan, 1999

Selected Publications

• McGregor AJ, Greenberg M, Safdar B, Seigel T, Hendrickson R, Poznanski S, Davenport M, Miner J, Choo EK (2013). Focusing a gender lens on emergency medicine research: 2012 update. Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Mar;20(3):313-20.
• Safdar B, Lichtman JH, D'Onofrio G (2012). Sex and the CT: An Evolving Story of the Heart. Acad Emerg Med. 2012 Feb;19(2):197-200. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01288.x.
• Safdar B, McGregor AJ, McKee SA, Ali A, Radulescu R, Himelfarb NT, Klein MR, Mazure CM (2011). Inclusion of gender in emergency medicine research. Academic Emergency Medicine. Feb;18(2):e1-4.

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