Ralph I Horwitz MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (General Medicine) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Departments & Organizations
School of Public HealthInternal Medicine
Articles

Autumn 2011
Alumnus brings social perspective to post
When Nirav R. Shah, M.D. ’98, M.P.H. ’98, HS ’01, was a medical student, he found a research paper that proved to be...

Spring 2003
Nothing trivial about house staff reunion
What is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box? How many movies did Tracy and Hepburn make together? Who was the...

Spring 2002
Even after his death, a skeptic inspires his legion of scholars
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., HS ’54, joked in his 400th scholarly article that he hoped to continue writing until he faced...

Spring 2008
Actress-writer returns to New Haven with a drama about the resilience of the human body
About eight years ago, Asghar Rastegar, M.D., deputy chair of internal medicine and professor of internal medicine...

Summer 2004
An author and physician helps residents become better doctors through writing
Physicians who listen to their patients’ stories—who listen as writers would—strengthen their relationships with those...
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...
Summer 2000
Faculty Practice elects governors
The Yale Faculty Practice, the multi-specialty academic medical practice composed of over 650 School of Medicine...

Spring 2003
Chair of medicine becomes dean in Ohio
Ralph I. Horwitz, M.D., FW ’77, a leader in the field of clinical investigation and chair of Department of Internal...
Winter/Spring 1998
Faculty join Institue of Medicine
Mark R. Cullen, M.D. '76, professor of medicine (occupational and environmental medicine) and of public health, and...

Spring 2002
Reinventing surgery
Robert Udelsman left one of the busiest medical centers on the planet to lead Yale’s Department of Surgery out of its...

Spring 2001
A dramatic turn
The playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith stands in the well of Fitkin Amphitheater musing about how patients and...
Winter 1999
A recipe for better medicine
Patients in different settings may receive very different treatments for the same condition. A push is on to...
Spring 2000
Deconstructing education
The breathtaking discoveries of the last three decades and rapid change across all of medicine have called traditional...

Autumn 2003
Thinking nationally, acting locally
n 1973 Yale was one of the founding sites for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Clinical Scholars Program, a...
Winter/Spring 1998
Urban health program broadens community outreach efforts
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded...
Summer 1998
Budget, space concerns addressed in school's strategic facilities plan
When David A. Kessler, M.D., began speaking with faculty and top administrators in early 1997 before coming to the...



