Emergency Medicine Faculty
Gail D'Onofrio
Chair
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Research Interests:Alcohol and other drug problems in ED setting: Brief intervention and referral to treatment; Women and heart disease, perceptions of risk, knowledge and behaviors
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine; Women and heart disease; Brief interventions for alcohol and other drug problems; teenage drinking; cardiac risk factors
Steven Bernstein
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair, Academic Affairs
Research Interests:Smoking cessation; healthcare access; disparities; emergency department crowding
Clinical Interests:Smoking Cessation; Emergency treatment
Liudvikas Jagminas
Vice Chair and Director for Clinical Operations
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair & Director of Clinical Operations
David Cone
Chief of Emergency Medicine Services
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Chief, Section of EMS
Director, EMS Fellowship
Research Interests:EMS; Disaster medicine; Hazardous materials; Fire/rescue technology; Emergency medical dispatch
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine; Emergency medical services; Disaster medicine; Hazardous materials
Kelly Dodge
Associate Director of Medical Simulation
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Director, Medical Simulation
Research Interests:Transfer of simulation skills to the clinical setting; Communication during trauma resuscitations
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Leigh Evans
Director of Medical Simulation
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Healthcare Simulation
Director, Resident Research
Research Interests:Emergency Medicine; Simulation in Undergraduate Medical Education; Invasive Procedure Simulation
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Karen Jubanyik
Director of Medical Education and Academic Advisor for School of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Emergency Medicine Clerkship
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine; palliative care; bioethics, women's health
Christopher Moore
Director for Division of Ultrasound
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Section of Emergency Ultrasound
Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Research Interests:Diagnostics; Dyspnea; Echocardiography; Emergency; Emergency Ultrasound; Head Injury; Hypotension; Pulmonary Embolism; Radiology; S100B; Sepsis; Shock; Ultrasound
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Harry Moscovitz
Medical Director for Shoreline Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, Shoreline Medical Center
Research Interests:Clinical quality; injury; substance abuse
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Lori Post
Director of Research Development
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Research Director
Faculty Affiliate - Yale Center for Medical Informatics
Research Scientist - Veteran's Administration
Research Interests:Elder Abuse; Gender-Based Violence; Demography; Domestic Violence; Evaluation; Injury; Methodology; Prevention; Program Evaluation; Research Design; Violence; Violence Against Women; Health Information Technology; Informatics
Seth Powsner
Director of CIU
Professor of Psychiatry and of Emergency Medicine
Director, Crisis Intervention Unit
Research Interests:Computer and Information Sciences; Computer graphics; Data Systems; Information retrieval; Medical informatics; Psychiatry
Clinical Interests:Emergency psychiatry / crisis intervention; consultation and geriatric psychiatry; psychiatry/medical comorbidity;
John Sather
Associate Director for Medical Education
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Basmah Safdar
Director for the Chest Pain Center (CPC)
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Co-Chair, Chest Pain Center
Director, YNHH Women's Heart Program
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
Clinical Interests:Emergency care for adults and children
Ian Schwartz
Medical Director for YNHH-Adult ED
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Adult ED
Clinical Interests:Health care management; public policy
Anthony Tomassoni
Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Research Interests:EMS; Emergency preparedness and disaster medicine; Global health; Medical toxicology and chemical emergencies; Emergency medicine and injury prevention; Education
Clinical Interests:Medical toxicology; hyperbaric and dive medicine
Fuad Abujarad
Associate Research Scientist in Emergency Medicine
Research Interests:Automated Model revision, Fault-Tolerance, Formal Methods, Software Engineering, and Distributed Computing, background check systems
Sandy Bogucki
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Firefighter health and safety; Physiology of firefighting; Planning and medical response to disasters
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medical Services
Cynthia Brandt
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Medical Informatics)
Research Interests:biomedical informatics; health services; Veterans
Clinical Interests:preventive medicine
David Della-Giustina
Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency
Chief of Education Section
Clinical Interests:Ultrasound; Emergency Orthopedics; Wilderness Medicine; Emergency Medicine Administration and Education; Leadership
James Dziura
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Deputy Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences
Allen Hsiao
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine
Chief Medical Information Officer, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Research Interests:Technology in Medicine; Point of Care Testing; Electronic Medical Records; Clinical Decision Support; Improving Efficiency and Quality of Clinical Care; Telemedicine
Clinical Interests:Emergent Care of Children; Point-of-care Testing; Handoffs/Transitions of Care; Clinical Decision Support; Febrile Infant Evaluation
Barbara Kirrane
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Research Interests:Clinical manifestations of acute clenbuterol toxicity and variations with treatment of chronic digoxin poisoned patients
Clinical Interests:Medical toxicology
Simon Kotlyar
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Global Health and International Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medicine; Global Health; Infectious Disease; Population Health
Evie Marcolini
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Neurology
Research Interests:Critical care
Clinical Interests:Neurocritical Care, Surgical Critical care
Ted Melnick
Clinical Instructor in Emergency Medicine and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:clinical practice guideline implementation; clinical decision support; clinical informatics; health services research
Clinical Interests:emergency medicine; neurologic emergencies
Mary Murphy
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Research Interests:emergency department, screening and brief intervention, computerized health interventions, behavioral research
Clinical Interests:computer-assisted SBIRT, alcohol, smoking, traffic safety, counseling interventions
Michael Pantalon
Research Scientist in Emergency Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Clinical Interests:Brief Motivational Interventions for Alcohol & Drug Abuse and Other Preventable Injuries
Carolyn Rambus
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine
Marc Shapiro
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Saint Raphael Campus
Research Interests:Medical simulation; Patient safety; Teamwork training
Clinical Interests:emergency medicine.
Asim Tarabar
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Medical Toxicology
Quality Improvement Director, YNHH Emergency Department
Research Interests:Substance abuse; Toxicology drugs of abuse
Clinical Interests:Emergency medicine; medical toxicology
Federico Vaca
Professor of Emergency Medicine and in the Child Study Center
Senior Research Faculty
Research Interests:Adolescent; Alcohol; Behavioral; Injury; Injury Epidemiology; Intervention; Motor Vehicle; Pedestrian; Prevention; Trauma; health disparities
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine, Trauma and Critical Care; injury prevention and control; motor vehicle crash injuries; unintentional injuries; racial/ethinc injury disparities
Charles Wira
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Liaison, Yale-New Haven Stroke Program
Research Interests:Stroke; sepsis; cardiac arrest
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medicine, Neurocritical Care, Internal Medicine
