Frank J Bia MD, MPH
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Medical Director, AmeriCares Foundation
Departments & Organizations
Biomedical EthicsInternal Medicine
Clinical Interests
I work exclusively with the uninsured at the AmeriCares Free Clinic in Bridgeport
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Articles
Spring 2011
Yale’s global health program celebrates 30 years
More than 15 years ago, as Albert I. Ko, M.D., was working in the urban slums of Brazil as a physician and field...
Winter 2010
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
The chances are good that you already know the work of Lisa Sanders, M.D. ’97, HS ’00, assistant clinical professor of...
Winter 2002
Lessons from anthrax
A Yale Medicine roundtable.At the 2001 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last...
Autumn 2003
Providing care in a changed world
Exotic travel is nothing new for David Hilmers, M.S., M.D., M.P.H. Hilmers has already landed in dozens of countries as...
Winter 2007
Travel and Tropical Medicine: Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
by Frank J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine and laboratory medicine, and David R. Hill, M.D. (Saunders) Topics covered...
Winter 2009
A master clinician takes on a new post
When Stephen J. Huot, M.D., professor of medicine, decided to organize a symposium in honor of Asghar Rastegar, M.D.,...
Autumn 2001
Frank Bia, M.D., Margaret Bia, M.D.
For their dedication to patients, students and the community, the husband-and-wife team of Frank Bia, M.D., and...
Autumn 2002
Everyone loves the Yale System. So why can't they all agree?
When Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., first came to Yale in 1997, he made an observation that seemed remarkable. The...
Autumn 2001
A world of difference
Ramona Farid, M.D., knew she wasn’t in New Haven anymore the night she found herself on a hospital patio pouring a...
Autumn 2012
Yale doctors around the world
As a medical student in South India in the mid-1980s, Unni Karunakara, M.P.H. ’95, Dr.Ph., read a magazine article that...
Autumn 2003
Reunion 2003
Although the theme of panels at both the medical school and the public health school reunions was the impact of disease...
Spring 2000
Malaria makes a comeback, even in the U.S.
When two cases of malaria surfaced in New Haven late last year, they were of interest to clinicians not because of any...
Spring 1999
“What’s in your Medicine Cabinet?” gives the public an inside look at drug discovery
During the past 150 years, scientists and physicians first discovered that germs, bacteria and viruses caused disease,...
Spring 2008
Of gangstas, capos and accreditation inspectas
Following a tradition dating back to 1949, the Class of 2010 presented The Unaccreditables, its second-year show, in...
Spring 2000
Gone!
An electric scooter, a week in a London townhouse and a squash game with the director of admissions were among the...
Summer 1998
Just what the doctor ordered
No cow was too sacred for the Class of 2000, as it lampooned deans, beloved faculty members and lowly first-year...
Autumn 2011
On selfishness in the service of others
Mother Nature provided the rain, but the proud teachers, family members, and friends supplied the lightning—in the form...
Winter 2002
Fund-raising event, now a fall tradition, takes a different tack
In a break from tradition, anatomy professor William B. Stewart, Ph.D., sold his trademark bow tie this year not at the...
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