Nancy Rockmore Angoff MD, MPH, MEd
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Departments & Organizations
Biomedical EthicsYale Medical Group
Directors
Medical Education Staff: Student Affairs
Internal Medicine: General Internal Medicine | Infectious Diseases: AIDS Care Program
Research Interests
Power and control in health care relationships
Clinical Interests
HIV; AIDS
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Education
- MAST OTHER, University of Cincinnati , 00/00/1971
- M.P.H., Yale University , 1981
- M.D., Yale University , 1990
Selected Publication
- Kobets AJ. Perlotto J. Angoff NR. An Intervention With Third-Year Medical Students to Encourage the Reporting and Management of Occupational Exposures. Academic Medicine, September 2012, Vol. 87, No. 9
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Leah M. Lowenstein Award for representing the highest degree of excellence in the promotion of humane and egalitarian medical education.(05/00/2006) , The graduating class of Yale University School of Medicine
Articles
Autumn 2010
Faculty and students bid farewell to someone who “does everything”
When it came time to bid farewell to Gisella Weissbach-Licht, no one could think of anything that she didn’t do during...
Autumn 2010
Incoming students immerse themselves in clinical medicine in new program
Making a diagnosis and suggesting treatment options would seem beyond the wherewithal of first-year medical students....
Spring 2009
Ending one chapter, beginning another
The Harkness ballroom erupted with cheers on March 19, as members of the Class of 2009 rushed in to learn where they...
Winter 2010
Class of 2012 presents “Love in the Time of the Swine Flu”
The second-year class affectionately mocked faculty while carrying on a 61-year-old tradition.In a two-act play that...
Autumn 2009
Raising money for the hungry and homeless
Tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, a chance to challenge the dean’s softball team, and an afternoon of...
Winter 2013
Zombies run amok at Yale Med!
Zombies are everywhere these days: on television, in the movies, and now onstage at the School of Medicine. “The...
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...
Spring 2005
Flashcards for the boards
The project began after a bridge game in mid-January 2003, when two medical students were commiserating about preparing...
Winter 2010
Student loses long struggle with leukemia despite search for bone marrow match
Natasha Collins, a member of the Class of 2012 whose classmates rallied to find her a bone marrow donor, died on August...
Spring 2002
Sign of compassion
Emotions have a legitimate place in the practice of medicine, according to Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R....
Summer 2000
Never a cross word. Always a crossword.
After a lifetime of tending first to children, then to young adults, Alan C. Mermann, M.D., M.Div., is about to embark...
Autumn 2002
Assistant dean leaves Yale for a post at Cornell’s new medical college in the Persian Gulf
In her 13 years at Yale in various posts, Cynthia A. Andrien, M.S., has seemingly done it all. She’s been the bearer of...
Summer 2000
Faculty, students react to proposals for curriculum
Faculty and students have welcomed proposals to revise the medical school curriculum even as they raise questions about...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
For a group of first-year students, an intense week in the lab
Exposure to some of the best minds in science has long been a benefit of studying medicine at Yale. For a group of 24...
Autumn 2005
1990 - 15th Reunion Report
Some people may feel that the 15th reunion wasn’t worth attending, but those of us who made it had a good time. It was...
Fall 1998
Nancy Angoff named associate dean for student affairs
Nancy R. Angoff, M.P.H. ’81, M.D. ’90, H.S. ’90-93, an assistant clinical professor of medicine who began her career...
Winter 2003
Long road to Cedar Street
You might say Karen Sarena Morris’ cover was blown at the White Jacket Ceremony. As young as she looks, the first-year...
Spring 2011
The high cost of a medical education
In the summer of 1957, Warren D. Widmann, M.D. ’61, HS ’67, earned his first year’s tuition for the School of Medicine...
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...
Summer 2000
A match made in New Haven
Finding the right residency requires stamina, endurance and a high tolerance for airline food (not to mention anxiety)....
Summer 1999
The Show Must Go On
Imagine Deputy Dean for Education Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, (the real one) and dozens of his clones (second-year...
Spring 2011
The paths less traveled
During Reunion weekend in June, four alumni shared their unique journeys—in journalism, drug development, and clinical...
Spring 2012
Alumni describe unexpected paths in medicine
Public health in Mozambique, hospital administration, public policy, and private industry were all career paths that a...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A new dean for education
One of the Ivy League’s most highly regarded medical educators is stepping down, much to the chagrin of students and...
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...
Autumn 2006
Always put the patient first
The pressures of the real world will challenge their graduation-day idealism, Herbert S. Chase Jr., M.D., told the 101...
Summer 2003
The crescendo of four years
In a scene that combined the envelope-opening excitement of the Academy Awards with the destination-determining drama...
Autumn 2002
Seeking balance when it comes to power
For a health care provider, real empathy boils down to whether he or she has genuine curiosity about individual...
Summer 2004
Subspecialties? That’s our specialty
“Have any of you guys been having Match nightmares?” one of my classmates asked in March, a week or so before the 2004...
Spring 2002
Another second-year show: Utterly forgettable, and well worth remembering
Behind every great fortune, the saying goes, lies a great crime. The same could be said of the second-year show. Always...
Spring 2000
Gone!
An electric scooter, a week in a London townhouse and a squash game with the director of admissions were among the...
Winter 1999
Donning plain white coats, 102 students are welcomed to a lifetime of medicine
Six years ago, alumnus Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, donated 100 starched white coats to the School of Medicine,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A new year, 106 new careers
When Dagan Coppock came to the School of Medicine as an applicant, he knew he would like it here. His interviewers...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A covenant with medicine
In early September, following seven years of tradition, members of the Class of 2003 donned the white coats that...
Summer 1999
The Match goes online, but students prefer old-fashioned envelopes
The Internet proved no match for snail mail as scores of students gathered in Harkness Hall on Match Day, March 18, to...
Spring 2011
Shelf exams are the stuff of dreams
Anyone who mastered the convoluted plot of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception would have had little trouble...
Winter 2013
Med school on the five-year plan
Like most of his classmates, Julius Oatts is staying on at the School of Medicine for a fifth year of study. This...
Spring 2010
Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises funds for local organizations
Tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, a chance to challenge the dean’s softball team, and an afternoon of...
Winter 2009
Auction raises $32,000 for New Haven-area charities for the hungry and homeless
“Girls’ Night Out: Join Drs. Bia, Angoff, Vining and Hansson to enjoy a dinner and the sharing of gossip and wisdom. No...
Spring 2009
U.S. economy in free fall! Yale endowment down! Med school scrambles for $$$!
Carrying on a 60-year-old tradition, the second-year class mocked its teachers and mentors with irreverence and...
Summer 2000
I Know What You Did Last Semester
Early in the first act of I Know What You Did Last Semester, the Class of 2002’s second-year show, a heckler in the...
Spring 2012
Salons bring faculty and students together for wine, books, and conversation
A few days after their return from winter recess, 10 second-year students piled onto a bus in front of the Sterling...
Spring 2012
Holocaust studies foster discussion of medical ethics
As medical student Jonathan Levin stood on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp at Birkenau, Germany, on a...
Summer 2005
Match Day sees more bound for New Haven residencies and training as generalists
While many people celebrated March 17 as St. Patrick’s Day, medical students from the Class of 2005 had another reason...
Summer 2003
Still smokin’, still addictive
Ever since his arrival at Yale in 1997 fresh from his battles with the tobacco industry as head of the Food and Drug...
Summer 2004
In a darkened Harkness, video reigns king of the second-year show
An ad from the Office of Admissions in the program for this year’s second-year show congratulated the Class of 2006,...
Autumn 2006
"UnderRated" skewers rankings and—as ever—the med school faculty
When the School of Medicine dropped to number 11 in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings for best research...
Summer 2002
A good year to be matching
Nationally, a record number of seniors make the grade; for two Yale students, it’s on to Hopkins and UCSF.By 11:30 a.m....
Spring 1999
Auction raises $25,000 for the homeless and hungry
The sixth annual Hunger and Homeless Auction organized by students last November raised more than $25,000 for local...
Winter 2012
After five years, HAVEN clinic still thriving
The staff meeting starts at 8:30 on Saturday mornings. Thirty or more students in medicine, nursing, public health, the...
Autumn 2008
Match Day 2008
Nationally, this year’s match was the largest ever—more than 28,000 applicants competed for 22,240 slots as first-year...
Spring 1999
Three students recognized
At a ceremony in May, students received awards for writing and community service. Claire Stylianopoulos, a first-year...
Spring 2012
99 Yale students in 2012 Match
The 2012 Match was the largest in history—38,000 applicants sought to match in 26,772 slots around the...
