Faculty
Physician associate director takes on a new role with teaching, alumni as the focus
After 25 years as director of the Physician Associate Program, Elaine E. Grant, PA-C ’74, M.P.H. ’92, has stepped aside to become the program’s first director of clinical development and special...
University names six at medical school to endowed professorships
The university has announced the following endowed professorships:Mark B. Gerstein, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been named the Albert L. Williams...
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Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS ’77
Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS ’77, professor of medicine and immunobiology and chief of the section of rheumatology, was named chair of the scientific advisory board of the Alliance for Lupus Research (ALR) in July. Craft will oversee the board, help establish and monitor its scientific goals and guide the planning of the...
Read more...Marie E. Egan, M.D.
Marie E. Egan, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of cellular and molecular physiology, was elected membership secretary of the Society for Pediatric Research in May for a term of six years. The society bridges basic science and clinical research for the advancement of the health and well-being of children...
Read more...Janine Evans, M.D.
Janine Evans, M.D., associate professor of medicine (rheumatology), was named associate director for clinical affairs at the Yale Medical Group in June. She will be responsible for practice standards, HIPAA oversight, credentialing and the Office of Patient Advocacy. Evans will also play a leadership role in the...
Read more...Patrick G. Gallagher, M.D., Scott A. Rivkees, M.D.
Patrick G. Gallagher, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics (neonatology), and Scott A. Rivkees, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics (endocrinology), have been named members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a selective group that honors outstanding achievement in biomedical research.
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Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., chair and professor of pediatrics and professor of microbial pathogenesis, and Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics and professor of medicine and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, were invited to serve on a Blue Ribbon Panel on Clinical Research at...
Read more...Zeev N. Kain, M.D., HS, FW
Zeev N. Kain, M.D., HS ’92, FW ’93, anesthesiologist-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Hospital Children’s Hospital and professor of anesthesiology and pediatrics and child psychiatry, has been appointed an associate editor of Anesthesiology, the journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. His renewable four-year...
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Erin Lavik, Sc.D.
Erin Lavik, Sc.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was one of two Yale faculty members named to the 2003 list of world’s 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation. Lavik’s research focuses on new approaches to repairing spinal cord...
Read more...Jerold R. Mande, M.P.H
Jerold R. Mande, M.P.H., lecturer in pediatrics, was named associate director for policy at the Yale Cancer Center in September. His initial goal is to define Yale’s role in the Connecticut Cancer Control Plan in conjunction with the Connecticut Cancer Partnership. Before coming to Yale, Mande served on the White...
Read more...I. George Miller Jr., M.D.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.1 million grant to I. George Miller Jr., M.D. The Method to Extend Research in Time Award provides five years of support for Miller, the John F. Enders Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, professor of epidemiology and of molecular biophysics and biochemistry....
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Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D
Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, was awarded a $3.65 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for a five-year study of the etiology of pancreas cancer cases in Connecticut. His co-investigator on the study, Herbert Yu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology, also received...
Read more...Philip E. Rubin, Ph.D.
Philip E. Rubin, Ph.D., director of the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences at the National Science Foundation, received a Commendable Performance award in September from the Human Subjects Research Subcommittee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council for his superior leadership of all...
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Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D.
Bennett A. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics and neurology with an appointment in the Child Study Center, received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Washington University Alumni Association in St. Louis. The award, presented at the 150th anniversary celebration in September, honors outstanding professional...
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Shepard B. Stone, M.P.S., PA, HS
Shepard B. Stone, M.P.S., PA ’76, HS ’81, associate clinical professor of anesthesiology and a physician associate-anesthesiologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital, is also on the board of trustees of the Associates of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Stone, a member of the Connecticut Army National Guard, was...
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From Other Issues
Spring 2013
New university provost named
Benjamin Polak, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Economics, the William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, and...
Spring 2013
Researchers honored for immune system research
Two Yale School of Medicine researchers who study the immune system will share a 2013 Vilcek Prize for their...
Spring 2013
Immunologist receives inaugural prize
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David A. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Spring 2013
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Three faculty members received the distinction of Fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Spring 2013
Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Physicians
Three Yale faculty members received awards for distinguished service from the Connecticut Chapter of the American...
Spring 2013
Paul Barash
Paul Barash, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, received the Ralph M. Waters Award from the Midwest Anesthesia...
Spring 2013
Richard Belitsky
Richard Belitsky, M.D., HS ’82, FW ’83, deputy dean for education, the Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medical...
Spring 2013
Michael G. Caty
Michael G. Caty, M.D., recently named the Robert Pritzker Professor of Pediatric Surgery, is a noted pediatric surgeon...
Spring 2013
Kimberly A. Davis
Kimberly A. Davis, M.D., is the president-elect of east (Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma), the largest...
Spring 2013
Anne Eichmann
Anne Eichmann, Ph.D., has been appointed Ensign Professor of Cardiology. She is noted for her research exploring the...
Spring 2013
T. Rob Goodman
T. Rob Goodman, M.D., vice chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, was appointed the department’s interim...
Spring 2013
Jordan Pober
Jordan Pober, M.D. ’77, Ph.D. ’77, FW ’78, whose research focuses on the functions of vascular endothelial cells in...
Spring 2013
Deborah Proctor
Deborah Proctor, M.D., professor of medicine (digestive diseases) and medical director of the Inflammatory Bowel...
Spring 2013
Martin A. Schwartz
Martin A. Schwartz, Ph.D., recently named the Robert Berliner Professor of Cardiology, is a noted cardiovascular...
Winter 2013
Neurobiologist elected to IOM
Marina Picciotto, Ph.D., the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor of neurobiology and of...
Winter 2013
Yale professor honored with two awards
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical...
Winter 2013
School of Medicine names new chair of ob/gyn
Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., HS ’92, FW ’98, was named chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive...
Winter 2013
Chair endowed for GI studies
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor emeritus of gastroenterology, and his wife, Joan W. Binder, have endowed a full...
Winter 2013
Daniel C. DiMaio
Daniel C. DiMaio, M.D., Ph.D., the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and scientific director and deputy...
Winter 2013
David S. Fischer
David S. Fischer, M.D., clinical professor of medicine (oncology), received the Richard Blumenthal Patient Advocate for...
Winter 2013
Thomas M. Gill
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and professor of epidemiology and of investigative...
Winter 2013
Andrew L. Goodman
Andrew L. Goodman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and at the Yale Microbial...
Winter 2013
Valentina Greco
Valentina Greco, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics and of dermatology, received an R01 grant from the National...
Winter 2013
Valerie Horsley
Valerie Horsley, Ph.D., the Maxine F. Singer, Ph.D. ’57 Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental...
Winter 2013
Gil G. Mor
Gil G. Mor, M.D., Ph.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, received the 2012 American...
Winter 2013
Jamie P. Morano
Jamie P. Morano, M.D., M.P.H., a third-year fellow in the program of infectious diseases in the Department of Internal...
Winter 2013
Don Nguyen
Don Nguyen, Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, received an R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute for his...
Winter 2013
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts, M.D., director of the Adult Sickle Cell Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital, received the Harry Hynes...
Winter 2013
Clarence T. Sasaki
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D. ’66, HS ’73, the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery (Otolaryngology), has been named...
Autumn 2012
Shaw prize for protein folding studies
Arthur Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, Sterling Professor of Genetics, professor of pediatrics, and a Howard Hughes Medical...
Autumn 2012
Pediatric chair named after national search
George Lister, M.D. ’73, HS ’75, has been named chair of pediatrics, chief of pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital...
Autumn 2012
Two named to National Academy of Sciences
Two Yale professors were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in May. Jorge Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., the...
Autumn 2012
Two faculty members take jobs in Washington
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, has accepted a political appointment in the...
Autumn 2012
Diane Krause and Melinda Pettigrew
Diane Krause, M.D., Ph.D., professor of laboratory medicine, of cell biology, and of pathology, and associate director...
Autumn 2012
Henry Binder
Henry Binder, M.D., FW ’65, senior research scientist and professor emeritus of medicine, received the Solomon A....
Autumn 2012
Peter Cresswell
Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology, professor of cell biology and of dermatology, and a...
Autumn 2012
Jonathan Demb
Jonathan Demb, Ph.D., associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science and of cellular and molecular physiology,...
Autumn 2012
John A. Elefteriades
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83, the William W.L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was elected to the...
Autumn 2012
Jack Elias
Jack Elias, M.D., professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, delivered the J. Burns...
Autumn 2012
Myron Genel
Myron Genel, M.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in pediatrics, has received the 2012 Stepping Up...
Autumn 2012
Valentina Greco
Valentina Greco, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics, is the recipient of a 2012 Research Scholar Grant from the...
Autumn 2012
Tamas Horvath
Tamas Horvath, D.V.M., Ph.D., chair of the Section of Comparative Medicine and director of the Yale Program in...
Autumn 2012
Joan A. Steitz
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, received the degree of doctor of...
Autumn 2012
Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, and director of the Division of...
Autumn 2012
Howard Zonana
Howard Zonana, M.D., professor of psychiatry, received the 2012 Isaac Ray Award from the American Psychiatric...
Spring 2012
New urology chair named
Peter G. Schulam, M.D., Ph.D., was named chief of the Department of Urology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and chair of the...
Spring 2012
National Physician of the year
Richard L. Edelson, M.D. ’70, chair and the Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology, was one of five...
Spring 2012
Historical librarian appointed
Melissa J. Grafe, Ph.D., was named the John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History at the Cushing/Whitney Medical...
Spring 2012
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos
Daniel A. Colón-Ramos, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, received the Early Career Award for Public...
Spring 2012
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, M.D., professor of medicine (digestive diseases), is the new president-elect of the American...
Spring 2012
Linda S. Godleski
Linda S. Godleski, M.D., associate chief of staff for education at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven...
Spring 2012
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal, M.D. ’84, HS ’88, the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Translational Research and chair of the...
Spring 2012
Steven Marans
Steven Marans, M.S.W., Ph.D., Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center and director of the...
Spring 2012
Steve Martino
Steve Martino, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was appointed chief of psychology for the VA Connecticut...
Spring 2012
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller, Ph.D., chair and the Irénée du Pont Professor of Chemistry, was recognized as a fellow of the American...
Spring 2012
Michael H. Nathanson
Michael H. Nathanson, Ph.D., M.D., FW ’90, professor of medicine (digestive diseases), section chief (digestive...
Spring 2012
Stanley H. Rosenbaum
Stanley H. Rosenbaum, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, of medicine (pulmonary), and of surgery (trauma), received the...
Spring 2012
Elisabetta Ullu
Elisabetta Ullu, Ph.D., professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and of cell biology, was named the winner of the...
Winter 2012
Public Health dean appointed to second term
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, was reappointed in June to a second five-year...
Winter 2012
Shaw Prize awarded to immunobiologist
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology, a member of Yale Cancer Center, and a...
Winter 2012
Director named to West Campus institute
Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D., the Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, has been named director of the Chemical...
Winter 2012
Diabetes researcher honored
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, chief of the Section of Endocrinology, and director of...
Winter 2012
Ralph E. Hoffman and Flora M. Vaccarino
Ralph E. Hoffman, M.D., FW ’80, professor of psychiatry; and Flora M. Vaccarino, M.D., HS ’71, Harris Professor in the...
Winter 2012
James A. Brink
James A. Brink, M.D., professor and chair of diagnostic radiology, was elected president of the American Roentgen Ray...
Winter 2012
Eve R. Colson
Eve R. Colson, M.D. ’89, associate professor of pediatrics, has been named a Macy Faculty Scholar by the Josiah Macy...
Winter 2012
Alan Dardik
Alan Dardik, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of surgery (vascular), has been appointed assistant editor of the Journal...
Winter 2012
Myron Genel
Myron Genel, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics, received the President’s Certificate for Outstanding Service from...
Winter 2012
Akiko Iwasaki
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., associate professor of immunobiology and of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, was...
Winter 2012
William L. Jorgensen
William L. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Chemistry, was among the 72 new members inducted into the National...
Winter 2012
Megan C. King
Megan C. King, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, is one of 15 researchers in the chemical and biological...
Winter 2012
Jennifer M. McNiff
Jennifer M. McNiff, M.D., professor of dermatology, has received the Walter R. Nickel Award for Excellence in Teaching...
Winter 2012
Clarence T. Sasaki, Mikhail Wadie, and Juan Li
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D. ’66, HS ’73, the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery and section chief of otolaryngology, has...
Winter 2012
M. Bruce Shields
M. Bruce Shields, M.D., chair emeritus and the Marvin L. Sears Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, was...
Winter 2012
Brian R. Smith
Brian R. Smith, M.D., chair and professor of laboratory medicine, has been selected to receive a 2011 Alternative...
Winter 2012
Eiji Yanagisawa
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS ’59, clinical professor of otolaryngology, received a Presidential Citation at the annual...
Autumn 2011
Nobel laureate named to Royal Society
Thomas Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and a winner of the Nobel Prize for...
Autumn 2011
Grant awarded for study of artificial enzymes
Two Yale researchers, Alanna Schepartz, Ph.D., the Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and professor of...
Autumn 2011
Michael J. Higley and David A. Spiegel
Four Yale scientists, including two in biomedical sciences, were among 118 named in February as 2011 Sloan Research...
Autumn 2011
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and of psychology, announced his retirement effective June 30. Blatt...
Autumn 2011
Hilary P. Blumberg
Hilary P. Blumberg, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at...
Autumn 2011
Marie E. Egan
Marie E. Egan, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics (respiratory), has received a 2010 Hartwell Individual...
Autumn 2011
Jorge E. Galán
Jorge E. Galán, D.V.M., Ph.D., the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, professor of cell biology and...
Autumn 2011
Jo Handelsman
Jo Handelsman, Ph.D., was named the Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology...
Autumn 2011
Abeel A. Mangi
Abeel A. Mangi, M.D., was appointed surgical director in March of the Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical...
Autumn 2011
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., associate professor of health policy at the School of Public Health, is a recipient of a...
Autumn 2011
Rajita Sinha
Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, succeeded Sidney Blatt as chief of the Section of Psychology in July....
Autumn 2011
William V. Tamborlane
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor of pediatrics (endocrinology), received the T2-Translation Award by the...
Autumn 2011
Mary E. Tinetti
Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., director of the Yale Program on Aging and the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine...
Spring 2011
New assistant dean for curriculum named
Michael L. Schwartz, Ph.D., was named assistant dean for curriculum in October. Schwartz is an associate professor of...
Spring 2011
New czar appointed to lead West Campus
Scott Strobel, Ph.D., the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was appointed in December...
Spring 2011
Paul G. Barash
Paul G. Barash, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Society of...
Spring 2011
Henry J. Binder
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine (digestive diseases) and of cellular and molecular physiology, was listed...
Spring 2011
Marna P. Borgstrom
Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, president and CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital, has been named to the Association of...
Spring 2011
Tobias J.E. Carling
Tobias J.E. Carling, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’02, FW ’08, assistant professor of surgery, has been named the first Doris...
Spring 2011
Linda C. Degutis
Linda C. Degutis, M.S.N. ’82, Dr.P.H. ’94, assumed the directorship of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s...
Spring 2011
Rosemarie Fisher
Rosemarie Fisher, M.D., associate dean and professor of medicine (digestive diseases), received in September the...
Spring 2011
Thomas M. Gill
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), was elected to the Association of American Physicians...
Spring 2011
Harlan M. Krumholz
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., M.Sc., the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine, has been invited to join the board of...
Spring 2011
John M. Leventhal
John M. Leventhal, M.D., HS ’76, professor of pediatrics, won a 2010 Ray E. Helfer Society Award for distinguished...
Spring 2011
Thomas H. McGlashan
Thomas H. McGlashan, M.D., professor of psychiatry, has received three awards in the past two years: the Stanley Dean...
Spring 2011
Nancy A. Moran
Nancy A. Moran, Ph.D., the William H. Fleming Professor of Biology, received the International Prize for Biology from...
Spring 2011
Charles A. Morgan III
Charles A. Morgan III, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry, received the 2010 Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and...
Spring 2011
Marvin Moser
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, was honored by the American Society of Hypertension for his 50...
Spring 2011
Sara Rockwell
Sara Rockwell, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and of pharmacology, gave the 7th Robert F. Kallman Memorial...
Spring 2011
Clarence T. Sasaki
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D., ’66, HS ’73, the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery, has received the 2010 ala Award from...
Spring 2011
Joan Steitz
Joan Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was one of five panelists at a...
Spring 2011
Bauer Sumpio
Bauer Sumpio, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’86, professor of surgery (vascular) and of diagnostic radiology, became president-elect...
Autumn 2010
New physiology chair appointed
Michael J. Caplan, M.D. ’87, Ph.D. ’87, was appointed chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology,...
Autumn 2010
Immunobiologist named to National Academy
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Autumn 2010
Joseph E. Craft
Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS ’77, FW ’85, professor of medicine and of immunobiology, chief of rheumatology, and director...
Autumn 2010
Liana Fraenkel
Liana Fraenkel, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine, received the 2009 American College of Rheumatology (ACR)...
Autumn 2010
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal, M.D. ’84, HS ’88, is one of six mental health professionals to receive an award from the American...
Autumn 2010
Robert S. Sherwin
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., FW ’74, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, was appointed chief of endocrinology in the...
Autumn 2010
Frank Slack
Frank Slack, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, was appointed director of Yale Cancer...
Autumn 2010
William V. Tamborlane
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor of pediatrics (endocrinology) and a world-renowned pioneer in the...
Autumn 2010
David M. Walker
David M. Walker, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics (emergency department), has been awarded a 2010-2011 Fulbright...
Autumn 2010
Mary L. Warner
Mary L. Warner, M.M.Sc., PA-C, associate dean and program director, Yale Physician Associate Program, and assistant...
Autumn 2010
Robert White Jr.
Robert White Jr., M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and director of the Yale Vascular Malformation Center,...
Spring 2010
Change in primary care clerkship
Frederick D. Haeseler, M.D., FW ’76, has stepped down as head of the fourth-year primary care clerkship that he has...
Spring 2010
New assistant dean for education
Janet P. Hafler, M.Ed., Ed.D., has been appointed assistant dean for educational scholarship in the office of...
Spring 2010
Murat Günel, M.D., HS ’98
Murat Günel, M.D., HS ’98, has been named the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery. Günel, also professor of...
Spring 2010
David A. Hafler, M.D.
David A. Hafler, M.D., chair of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been named the inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser,...
Spring 2010
Steven B. Leder, Ph.D.
Steven B. Leder, Ph.D., professor of surgery (otolaryngology), has been installed as the incoming president of the...
Spring 2010
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., the David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Spring 2010
Andres S. Martin, M.D., M.P.H.
Andres S. Martin, M.D., M.P.H. ’02, was appointed the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor of Pediatric Psychosocial Services...
Spring 2010
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and associate dean for faculty affairs, was inducted...
Spring 2010
Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D.
Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., has been named the Harris Family Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study...
Spring 2010
Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D.
Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D. ’68, professor emerita and senior research associate in the Division of Epidemiology of...
Spring 2010
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., the George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, professor of medicine and...
Spring 2010
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW
William V. Tamborlane, M.D., FW ’77, professor and section chief of pediatric endocrinology and deputy director of the...
Spring 2010
Robert I. White, M.D.
Robert I. White, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, received the 2010 Career Achievement Award from the...
Winter 2010
Two faculty get “genius” grants
Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology and of...
Winter 2010
A cardiologist’s last lesson in heart sounds
Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D., HS ’65, taught his last class on September 15 in “Learning Heart Sounds,” a module he has...
Winter 2010
Ronald A. Adelman, M.D., M.P.H.
Ronald A. Adelman, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science, was proclaimed a Knight of...
Winter 2010
Annette Beautrais, Ph.D. and Gregory L. Larkin, M.D.
Annette Beautrais, Ph.D., senior research scientist in emergency medicine, and Gregory L. Larkin, M.D., professor of...
Winter 2010
Henry J. Binder, M.D.
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine (digestive diseases) and of cellular and molecular physiology, has...
Winter 2010
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56, professor of dermatology, was the keynote speaker at the Third International...
Winter 2010
Peter Cresswell, Ph.D.
Peter Cresswell, Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent most of his career unraveling some...
Winter 2010
Myron Genel, MD.
Myron Genel, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics, recently completed a three-year term on the Health and Human...
Winter 2010
Ami Klin, Ph.D., FW
Ami Klin, Ph.D., FW ’92, a developmental psychologist and a world-renowned expert on severe developmental disorders,...
Winter 2010
The Journal of Clinical Hypertension
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine (cardiology), recently retired as editor in chief of The Journal of...
Winter 2010
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D.
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and pharmacology and associate dean for scientific affairs,...
Winter 2010
James E. Rothman, Ph.D.
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. ’71, chair of the Department of Cell Biology and the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical...
Winter 2010
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally known diabetes researcher and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Winter 2010
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., the Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology and...
Autumn 2009
MS expert named to head neurology
David A. Hafler, M.D., a leader in multiple sclerosis (MS) research, was named chair of neurology at the School of...
Autumn 2009
Psychiatry professor named chair
John H. Krystal, M.D. ’84, was named chair of the Department of Psychiatry, effective July 1. Krystal, the Robert L....
Autumn 2009
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., the Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology, received...
Autumn 2009
Faculty Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Eleven Yale faculty members, including six from the School of Medicine, were elected to the Connecticut Academy of...
Autumn 2009
Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., Michael Levene, Ph.D.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation awarded $125,000 in April to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., chair and...
Autumn 2009
Michael C. Crair, Ph.D.
Michael C. Crair, Ph.D., was named the inaugural William Ziegler III Associate Professor of Vision Research at the...
Autumn 2009
Pietro De Camilli, M.D., FW
Pietro De Camilli, M.D., FW ’79, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology, has received a $100,000 Distinguished...
Autumn 2009
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., FW
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., FW ’94, a leading authority on the epidemiology and prevention of disability among older persons,...
Autumn 2009
Jeffrey R. Gruen, M.D., HS
Jeffrey R. Gruen, M.D., HS ’83, associate professor of pediatrics and genetics, has received a $5.2 million grant from...
Autumn 2009
Susan Kaech, Ph.D.
Susan Kaech, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunobiology, is one of 50 researchers named Early Career Scientists by the...
Autumn 2009
Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D.
Shirleen Roeder, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, the Eugene Higgins Professor of...
Autumn 2009
Michael Sernyak, M.D., HS
Michael Sernyak, M.D., HS ’87, professor of psychiatry, was appointed director of the Connecticut Mental Health Center...
Spring 2009
Lung cancer expert to lead cancer center
Thomas J. Lynch Jr., M.D. ’86, a lung cancer expert at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School,...
Spring 2009
Michael J. Caplan, M.D. ’87, Ph.D. ’87, FW ’89, Mark Hochstrasser, Ph.D., David J. Leffell, M.D., David A. McCormick, Ph.D., Scott A. Strobel, Ph.D.
Several faculty members have been named to endowed chairs in recent months. Michael J. Caplan, M.D. ’87, Ph.D. ’87, FW...
Spring 2009
Angus C. Nairn, FW ’82, Ph.D., Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., Jane R. Taylor, Ph.D.
Three neuroscientists have been named to endowed chairs funded by an alumnus of the Yale College Class of 1928. Angus...
Spring 2009
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’81, FW ’83
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’81, FW ’83, the William W.L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and chief of...
Spring 2009
Vikki Abrahams, Ph.D.
Vikki Abrahams, Ph.D., assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has received a 2009...
Spring 2009
Joshua A. Copel, M.D.
Joshua A. Copel, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and of pediatrics, has been named...
Spring 2009
Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D.
Walter S. Gilliam, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Yale Child Study Center and director of its Edward Zigler Center...
Spring 2009
Robert Heimer, Ph.D.
Robert Heimer, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and pharmacology, will work and lecture in Russia...
Spring 2009
Gil Mor, M.D., Alessandro Santin, M.D.
Gil Mor, M.D., and Alessandro Santin, M.D., members of Yale Cancer Center, received more than $5 million in federal and...
Spring 2009
Pasquale Patrizio, M.D.
Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., director of the Yale Fertility Center and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive...
Spring 2009
Majid Sadigh, M.D.
Majid Sadigh, M.D., associate professor of medicine, was nominated by medical students for the Humanism in Medicine...
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.,...
Winter 2009
Pathologist honored with symposium
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, was the centerpiece of a Yale symposium in October, but the words of praise for...
Winter 2009
Genetics professor named to IOM
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and professor of pediatrics at the School of...
Winter 2009
Portrait of psychiatry chair unveiled
Benjamin S. “Steve” Bunney, M.D., professor emeritus and former chair of psychiatry, returned to Yale in October from...
Winter 2009
Alumna receives Yale Medal
Roslyn Milstein Meyer, Ph.D. ’77, assistant clinical professor in psychiatry, is one of five recipients of the 2008...
Winter 2009
Robert J. Alpern, M.D.
Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, received the John P. Peters Award from the American...
Winter 2009
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63, immediate past co-director of Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics,...
Winter 2009
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D.
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., associate dean for faculty affairs and professor of psychiatry and psychology, is the 2008...
Winter 2009
Charles A. Morgan III, M.D.
Charles A. Morgan III, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry, has received the Patriotic Civilian Service...
Winter 2009
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D.
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received the 2008 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty...
Winter 2009
Erik M. Shapiro, Ph.D
Erik M. Shapiro, Ph.D., assistant professor of diagnostic radiology and biomedical engineering, has received a $1.5...
Winter 2009
Michael Simons, M.D.
Michael Simons, M.D. ’84, a distinguished heart researcher and physician, has been named section chief of...
Winter 2009
Edward Zigler, Ph.D.
Edward Zigler, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Psychology emeritus, has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the...
Autumn 2008
Leading cell biologist to head department
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. ’71, one of the world’s leading cell biologists, has been named chair of the Department of Cell...
Autumn 2008
Yale professor receives Albany prize
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, is one of the first two women...
Autumn 2008
Kavli Prize for a Yale neuroscientist
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair and the Doris McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, professor of neurology and...
Autumn 2008
Jack A. Elias, M.D., Andrew D. Hamilton, Ph.D., Diane S. Krause, M.D., Ph.D., Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D., Michael P. Snyder, Ph.D., Mary E. Tinetti, M.D.
Seven faculty members of the School of Medicine were elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering....
Autumn 2008
Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D.
Amy F.T. Arnsten, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology, was selected by NARSAD in April to receive its prestigious...
Autumn 2008
Savita G. Bhakta, M.B.B.S., Fei Wang, Ph.D.
In April two faculty members were awarded 2008 Young Investigator Awards from NARSAD, the world’s leading charity...
Autumn 2008
Henry S. Cabin, M.D.
Henry S. Cabin, M.D., professor of medicine (cardiology), has been named medical director of the Yale-New Haven...
Autumn 2008
David C. Cone, M.D.
David C. Cone, M.D., associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and of epidemiology, has been appointed editor...
Autumn 2008
Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D.
Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D., professor of laboratory medicine and director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital microbiology...
Autumn 2008
Richard L. Edelson, M.D
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., director of Yale Cancer Center, has been named the inaugural Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner...
Autumn 2008
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D.
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D., the Maxine Singer Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,...
Autumn 2008
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., received the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award from the University of Chicago in May. The Howard...
Autumn 2008
Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D.
Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the School of Public Health, was one of 13 people to receive a Seton...
Autumn 2008
Joel L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Joel L. Rosenbaum, Ph.D., professor of cellular and molecular biology, received an honorary degree from the University...
Autumn 2008
Brian R. Smith, M.D.
Brian R. Smith, M.D., professor and chair of laboratory medicine, has been elected president of the Academy of Clinical...
Autumn 2008
Edward L. Snyder, M.D.
Edward L. Snyder, M.D., professor and associate chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Laboratory Medicine,...
Autumn 2008
Scott A. Strobel, Ph.D.
Scott A. Strobel, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been awarded the Schering-Plough...
Autumn 2008
Ronald J. Vender, M.D., HS, FW
Ronald J. Vender, M.D., ’77, HS ’80, FW ’82, a nationally recognized gastroenterologist who specializes in therapeutic...
Spring 2008
Medical school appoints new deputy dean for finance and administration
Cynthia Walker, M.B.A., has been appointed deputy dean for finance and administration at the School of Medicine. Walker...
Spring 2008
Six faculty honored as AAAS fellows
Six faculty members in the biomedical sciences were honored as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement...
Spring 2008
Peter S. Aronson, M.D., FW ’77
Peter S. Aronson, M.D., FW ’77, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine and professor of cellular and molecular...
Spring 2008
Paul G. Barash, M.D.
Paul G. Barash, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award from the...
Spring 2008
Michael Cappello, M.D.
Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics, of microbial pathogenesis and of epidemiology and public health, was...
Spring 2008
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D.
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, was presented with...
Spring 2008
David A. Fiellin, M.D.
David A. Fiellin, M.D., associate professor of medicine, was elected to the board of directors of the College on...
Spring 2008
Richard Flavell, Ph.D.
Richard Flavell, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology, received the Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize and Lectureship in...
Spring 2008
Erin Lavik, Ph.D.
Erin Lavik, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was honored by the Connecticut Technology Council as...
Spring 2008
James F. Leckman, M.D.
James F. Leckman, M.D., was honored in October by NARSAD, the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health...
Spring 2008
Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Robert J. Levine, M.D., professor of medicine, has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ Panel on...
Spring 2008
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics, received the Wiley Prize in Biomedical...
Spring 2008
Thomas H. McGlashan, M.D
Thomas H. McGlashan, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute, has received the...
Spring 2008
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has received a...
Spring 2008
Alexander Neumeister, M.D.
Alexander Neumeister, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Molecular Imaging Program of the...
Spring 2008
Marina Picciotto, Ph.D.
Marina Picciotto, Ph.D., received the Jacob P.Waletzky Memorial Award for Innovative Research in Drug Addiction and...
Spring 2008
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D.
Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Division of Global Health at the School of Public Health, has...
Spring 2008
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology and a Howard Hughes...
Spring 2008
Dennis D. Spencer, M.D., HS
Dennis D. Spencer, M.D., HS ’77, chair and the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, was elected president...
Winter 2008
Retiring chair of psychiatry honored
Measuring the legacy of a scientist with a 38-year career can take many forms—tallies of awards, peer-reviewed...
Winter 2008
Three faculty named to IOM in 2007
Three Yale faculty members were named to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in October, bringing the total from the...
Winter 2008
Lyme disease expert to lead ID section
Erol Fikrig, M.D., FW ’91, an expert in vector-borne diseases and a pioneer in the development of a vaccine for Lyme...
Winter 2008
Richard Belitsky, M.D., James S. Duncan, Ph.D., Erol Fikrig, M.D., Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Four medical school faculty members have been named to endowed chairs. Richard Belitsky, M.D., deputy dean for...
Winter 2008
Henry J. Binder, M.D.
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology, received the 2007 Distinguished...
Winter 2008
Robert Dubrow, M.D.
Robert Dubrow, M.D., associate professor in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and director of the Office of...
Winter 2008
Linda C. Mayes, M.D.
Linda C. Mayes, M.D., the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center and professor of...
Winter 2008
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D.
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., professor in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, has...
Winter 2008
Pasquale Patrizio, M.D.
Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has been elected to serve as...
Winter 2008
David M. Rothstein, M.D.
David M. Rothstein, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has been elected a councilor-at-large of the American...
Winter 2008
Derek K. Toomre, Ph.D.
Derek K. Toomre, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, has received a $2.5 million five-year New Innovator Award...
Winter 2008
Kyle Vanderlick, Ph.D., Paul A. Fleury, Ph.D.
Kyle Vanderlick, Ph.D., has been appointed dean of the Yale Faculty of Engineering and named the Thomas E. Golden...
Autumn 2007
Ribosome scholar receives Gairdner Prize
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, professor of chemistry and a...
Autumn 2007
Special advisor leaves dean’s office post
Lawrence S. Cohen, M.D., HS ’65, the Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor of Medicine, has stepped down after 16 years in the...
Autumn 2007
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D., Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D.
Two Yale scientists have received Investigator Awards from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research...
Autumn 2007
R. Lawrence Moss, M.D., John A. Persing, M.D., Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D.
Three appointments to endowed professorships were announced in May. R. Lawrence Moss, M.D., has been named the Robert...
Autumn 2007
Paula A. Armbruster, M.S.W.
Paula A. Armbruster, M.S.W., associate clinical professor in the Child Study Center, has been named Cambridge Who’s Who...
Autumn 2007
Christopher K. Breuer, M.D.
Christopher K. Breuer, M.D., assistant professor of surgery (pediatrics) and pediatrics, has received a Doris Duke...
Autumn 2007
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D.
Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., dean and C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in the Department of...
Autumn 2007
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Oncology at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC),was...
Autumn 2007
Bernard G. Forget, M.D.
Bernard G. Forget, M.D., professor of medicine (hematology) and genetics, is one of 10 Yale faculty members named...
Autumn 2007
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics and a Howard Hughes Medical...
Autumn 2007
Carol H. Lee, M.D.
Carol H. Lee, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and chair of the Breast Imaging Commission of the American...
Autumn 2007
Arthur L. Levy, M.D.
Arthur L. Levy, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine and nursing, has been appointed medical director for...
Autumn 2007
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D, Hugh S. Taylor, M.D.
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’ Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of obstetrics, gynecology and...
Autumn 2007
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S.
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., the Donald Guthrie Professor Emeritus of Surgery/Urology, was elected president of the...
Autumn 2007
Cindy R. Miller, M.D
Cindy R. Miller, M.D., associate professor and co-section chief of pediatric imaging in diagnostic radiology, received...
Autumn 2007
Gil Mor, M.D., Ph.D.
Gil Mor, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, received the J....
Autumn 2007
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D.
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D., the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery and chief of the Section of Otolaryngology, has been...
Autumn 2007
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D.
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, received the Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement...
Autumn 2007
Warren D. Shlomchik, M.D.
Warren D. Shlomchik, M.D., associate professor of medicine and immunobiology, received a Clinical Scientist Award in...
Autumn 2007
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine (endocrinology) and of cellular and molecular physiology and a...
Autumn 2007
Robert I. White Jr., M.D.
Robert I. White Jr., M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, has been inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of...
Spring 2007
New deputy director at Yale Cancer Center
Edward Chu, M.D., was named deputy director of Yale Cancer Center (YCC), effective January 1. He succeeds José Costa,...
Spring 2007
Pediatrician named to research society
A Yale pediatrician is among 27 of the nation’s foremost experts in global health who will band together to advocate...
Spring 2007
Professor honored with prestigious award
Gerhard H. Giebisch, M.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in cellular and molecular physiology,...
Spring 2007
Notes
The Yale Corporation made the following appointments in the Department of Surgery at its December meeting: the chair of...
Spring 2007
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D.
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and chief of the psychology section in the Department of...
Spring 2007
James P. Comer, M.D.
James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, is the winner of the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for...
Spring 2007
David C. Cone, M.D.
David C. Cone, M.D., associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and epidemiology, was installed as president...
Spring 2007
Linda Degutis, M.S.N. ’82, Dr.Ph. ’94
Linda Degutis, M.S.N. ’82, Dr.Ph. ’94, associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and public health...
Spring 2007
Michael Green, M.D
Michael Green, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has been selected as a Kimball Scholar by the American Board of...
Spring 2007
Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D.
Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, has been named president of the American...
Spring 2007
Anthony Koleske, Ph.D.
Anthony Koleske, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of neurobiology at the School...
Spring 2007
Richard P. Lifton, Ph.D., M.D.
Richard P. Lifton, Ph.D., M.D., Sterling Professor of Genetics, chair of genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Spring 2007
Joel Rosenbaum, Ph.D.
Joel Rosenbaum, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and a faculty member since 1967,...
Spring 2007
Craig R. Roy, Ph.D.
Craig R. Roy, Ph.D., associate professor of microbial pathogenesis, has received the 2007 Eli Lilly and Company...
Spring 2007
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, received the 11th Keio Medical...
Spring 2007
Robert I. White Jr., M.D.
Robert I. White Jr., M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, received the Leaders in Innovation Award from the Society...
Winter 2007
Immunobiologist named to IOM
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Immunobiology, and chair of immunobiology was named to the Institute...
Winter 2007
New chairs named at School of Medicine
Several new appointments at the medical school were announced last summer and fall, with new leadership in the...
Winter 2007
Angus C. Nairn, Ph.D., Paul J. Lombroso, M.D., John H. Krystal, M.D.
Three Yale School of Medicine researchers investigating schizophrenia, depression and Tourette syndrome recently...
Winter 2007
Erin Lavik, Sc.D., Tarek Fahmy, Ph.D.
Two assistant professors have received Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Awards in...
Winter 2007
Michelle L. Bell, Ph.D., Sven-Eric Jordt, Ph.D.
Two Yale environmental scientists were among eight who will share $3.6 million in grants from the National Institute of...
Winter 2007
Andres S. Martin, M.D., M.P.H.
Andres S. Martin, M.D., M.P.H. ’02, has been named editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and...
Winter 2007
Annette M. Molinaro, Ph.D.
Annette M. Molinaro, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health (biostatistics), was awarded a three-year, $500,000...
Winter 2007
Marvin Moser, M.D.
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, was honored for “Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement and...
Winter 2007
Barry L. Zaret, M.D
Barry L. Zaret, M.D., the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, received the Distinguished Service Award of the...
Winter 2007
Heping Zhang, Ph.D.
Heping Zhang, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, was named a fellow...
Winter 2007
Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D.
Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D., the Ira V. Hiscock Associate Professor of Public Health, has been elected a fellow of the American...
Autumn 2006
Two Yale biologists receive Gairdner International Award
Two Yale biologists were among five scientists to win 2006 Gairdner International Awards, among the most prestigious in...
Autumn 2006
Curtis Patton retires from research and international health
When Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbiology) and director of international medical studies at...
Autumn 2006
Prusoff is awarded Parker Medal for role in discovery of AIDS drug
William H. Prusoff, Ph.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in pharmacology, received the Peter Parker...
Autumn 2006
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.
Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., professor and chair of psychology, professor of epidemiology and director of the Rudd Center...
Autumn 2006
Elizabeth B. Claus, M.D. ’94, Ph.D. ’94
Elizabeth B. Claus, M.D. ’94, Ph.D. ’94, associate professor of public health (biostatistics), has been awarded a...
Autumn 2006
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’81, FW ’83
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’81, FW ’83, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, received the prestigious...
Autumn 2006
Alison Galvani, Ph.D.
Alison Galvani, Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Public Health’s Division of Epidemiology of Microbial...
Autumn 2006
Nigel D.F. Grindley, Ph.D.
Nigel D.F. Grindley, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been elected to the Royal Society...
Autumn 2006
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D.
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of obstetrics, gynecology and...
Autumn 2006
Alexander Neumeister, M.D.
Alexander Neumeister, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was awarded the CINP 2006 Bristol-Myers Squibb Max...
Autumn 2006
Peter J. Novick, Ph.D.
Peter J. Novick, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
Autumn 2006
Jody L. Sindelar, Ph.D.
Jody L. Sindelar, Ph.D., professor of public health, has been named the inaugural president-elect and current vice...
Autumn 2006
Scott Strobel, Ph.D., Nigel D. F. Grindley, Ph.D.
Scott Strobel, Ph.D., was named chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B) for a...
Autumn 2006
Richard Torres, M.D., M.P.H.
Richard Torres, M.D. ’99, M.P.H., assistant clinical professor of medicine and chief medical officer of Optimus Health...
Autumn 2006
Barry Wu, M.D., HS
Barry Wu, M.D., HS ’92, associate clinical professor of medicine, received the Herbert S. Waxman Award for Outstanding...
Spring 2006
New center to focus on neuroscience and brain disorders
The School of Medicine has launched a new interdepartmental program, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and...
Spring 2006
European group elects cell biologist as foreign member
Ira Mellman, Ph.D. ’78, chair and Sterling Professor of Cell Biology, is one of three American scientists elected as...
Spring 2006
Margaret J. Bia, M.D.
Margaret J. Bia, M.D., professor of medicine, received the George F. Thornton Award at the annual meeting of the...
Spring 2006
Linda K. Bockenstedt, M.D.
Linda K. Bockenstedt, M.D., the Harold W. Jockers Associate Professor of Medicine, has been named director for...
Spring 2006
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., HS ’75
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., HS ’75, associate dean for graduate medical education, has won the 2006 Courage to Lead...
Spring 2006
Nora E. Groce, Ph.D.
Nora E. Groce, Ph.D., associate professor of public health (global health) and anthropology, chaired UNICEF’s Thematic...
Spring 2006
Sharon L. Kagan, D.Ed.
Sharon L. Kagan, D.Ed., professor (adjunct) in the Child Study Center, has become the first woman to win three of the...
Spring 2006
Zeev N. Kain, M.D., M.B.A., HS, FW
Zeev N. Kain, M.D., M.B.A., HS ’92, FW ’93, professor of anesthesiology, pediatrics and child psychiatry and vice chair...
Spring 2006
Francis Gilman Blake Award
Each year the graduating class honors its teacher of the year with the Francis Gilman Blake Award, but this year the...
Spring 2006
Christopher H. van Dyck, M.D., FW
Christopher H. van Dyck, M.D., FW ’91, associate professor of psychiatry and neurobiology and director of the...
Autumn 2005
D’Onofrio named head of emergency medicine
D’Onofrio practiced nursing for many years before getting her medical degree in 1987. She chose emergency medicine, she...
Autumn 2005
Fund honors a mentor, boosts young scientists
When Applera Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., asked members of its board of directors last spring to suggest recipients for...
Autumn 2005
Center renamed in honor of “father” of Head Start
At a celebration in July, the Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy was renamed in honor of Edward F....
Autumn 2005
Sandra L. Alfano, Pharm.D.
Sandra L. Alfano, Pharm.D., an associate research scientist in the department of medicine, has been appointed chair of...
Autumn 2005
Roland E. Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Roland E. Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation and of cell biology, received the D....
Autumn 2005
Henry J. Binder, M.D.
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine (gastroenterology) and of cellular and molecular physiology, received the...
Autumn 2005
Joyce A. Cramer, B.S.
Joyce A. Cramer, B.S., associate research scientist in psychiatry, was elected in May to the board of directors of the...
Autumn 2005
Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D.
Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D., professor of surgery (gastroenterology), received the 2005 Jacobson Innovation Award from the...
Autumn 2005
Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D
Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases), received a Young Investigators’...
Autumn 2005
Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D.
Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D. ’72, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and head of the...
Autumn 2005
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunobiology, is one of 11 recipients of the 2005 Burroughs Wellcome Fund...
Autumn 2005
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology (chronic disease), has been named a fellow in the Behavioral...
Autumn 2005
Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’88, assistant professor of epidemiology (chronic disease), received the Women with...
Autumn 2005
Glenn C. Micalizio, Ph.D.
Glenn C. Micalizio, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2005 Beckman Young Investigator. The...
Autumn 2005
Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D.
Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases), received a three-year, $240,000...
Autumn 2005
Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D.
Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of chemistry, has won a fellowship from...
Autumn 2005
Sandra G. Resnick, Ph.D
Sandra G. Resnick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, received the 2005 U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation...
Autumn 2005
Steven M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D.
Steven M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D., the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and professor of neurobiology, is one of...
Autumn 2005
Edward M. Uchio, M.D.
Edward M. Uchio, M.D., assistant professor of surgery (urology), received the 2005 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career...
Autumn 2005
Raymond Yesner, M.D.
Raymond Yesner, M.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in pathology, received the Gold Medal from the...
Summer 2005
As deputy dean, Leffell moves practice into 21st century
With his appointment as deputy dean for clinical affairs in February, David J. Leffell, M.D., HS ’86, continues a task...
Summer 2005
Bottomly named deputy provost for science, technology
H. Kim Bottomly, Ph.D., has been named deputy provost for science, technology and faculty development, effective July...
Summer 2005
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., Paul L. Errera, M.D., HS ’57
In March Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and chief of psychology in the Department of...
Summer 2005
Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., FW ’98
Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., FW ’98, assistant professor of neurology, neurobiology and neurosurgery, has received the...
Summer 2005
Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D.
Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, has been named a Howard...
Summer 2005
David C. Cone, M.D.
David C. Cone, M.D., associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and public health, was installed as...
Summer 2005
Linda C. Degutis, M.S.N., Dr.Ph.
Linda C. Degutis, M.S.N. ’82, Dr.Ph. ’94, associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and epidemiology and...
Summer 2005
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS ’66, the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine, has been named editor in chief...
Summer 2005
Marie L. Landry, M.D., HS, FW
Marie L. Landry, M.D., HS ’77, FW ’81, professor of laboratory medicine and director of the Clinical Virology...
Summer 2005
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63, professor of medicine and co-chair of the Yale Bioethics Project, has received the...
Summer 2005
John D. MacMicking, Ph.D.
John D. MacMicking, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, has been selected as a 2005...
Summer 2005
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D.
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., professor and chair of diagnostic radiology, was elected president of the American Roentgen...
Summer 2005
Stephanie S. O’Malley, Ph.D.
Stephanie S. O’Malley, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the department’s Division of Substance Abuse...
Summer 2005
Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D.
Anna Marie Pyle, Ph.D., has been appointed the William Edward Gilbert Professor of Molecular Biophysics and...
Summer 2005
Raymond R. Russell, M.D., Ph.D., FW
The Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has given the 2004 Bayer Award to Raymond R. Russell, M.D., Ph.D., FW ’00, assistant...
Summer 2005
Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A
Robert Udelsman, M.D., M.B.A., the Lampman Professor of Surgery and Oncology and chair of surgery, was elected...
Summer 2005
Stephen G. Waxman, Ph.D., M.D.
Stephen G. Waxman, Ph.D., M.D., professor and chair of neurology and professor of pharmacology and neurobiology, has...
Spring 2005
Noted chemist is named provost
Ask Andrew D. Hamilton, Ph.D., Yale’s new provost, if it’s an accident that both he and his immediate predecessor are...
Spring 2005
New finance officer crosses country to assume post at Yale
Jaclyne W. Boyden, a senior administrator at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named deputy...
Spring 2005
Three named to endowed professorships
The university named three members of the faculty at the medical school to endowed professorships in 2004.Robert J....
Spring 2005
Charles H. Cha, M.D.
Charles H. Cha, M.D., assistant professor of surgery (gastroenterology), has received a two-year, $200,000 Dennis W....
Spring 2005
Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Sc.D.
Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Sc.D., professor emeritus of neurology, received honorary-member status in the American...
Spring 2005
Roberto J. Groszmann, M.D.
Roberto J. Groszmann, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Section of Digestive Diseases at the VA...
Spring 2005
Susan E. Hardy, M.D., FW
Susan E. Hardy, M.D., FW ’04, instructor in geriatric medicine, has received a 2004 Pfizer/AGS Foundation for Health in...
Spring 2005
Janet B. Henrich, M.D.
Janet B. Henrich, M.D., associate professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences,...
Spring 2005
Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Judith H. Lichtman, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’88, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Division of Chronic Disease...
Spring 2005
Albert C. Lo, M.D., Ph.D., HS
Albert C. Lo, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’01, assistant clinical professor of neurology, received a Presidential Early Career...
Spring 2005
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D.
Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, was appointed to the...
Spring 2005
John A. Persing, M.D
John A. Persing, M.D., professor of surgery (plastic) and neurosurgery, will begin his term as chair of the American...
Spring 2005
Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D.
Marina R. Picciotto, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neurobiology, has received a $100,000...
Spring 2005
Teresa A. Ponn, M.D.
Teresa A. Ponn, M.D., assistant clinical professor of surgery, has been named associate director for breast surgery at...
Spring 2005
Charles M. Radding, M.D.
A symposium in September honored the lifetime work of Charles M. Radding, M.D., professor of genetics and molecular...
Spring 2005
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D.
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics and a member of the Child Study Center, received the Townsend Harris...
Spring 2005
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., FW
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., FW ’74, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine, has received the Long-Standing...
Spring 2005
Stephen G. Waxman, Ph.D., M.D.
Stephen G. Waxman, Ph.D., M.D., professor and chair of neurology, pharmacology and neurobiology, has been named the...
Spring 2005
Barry L. Zaret, M.D.
A symposium, “Advances in Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery,” was held in October to honor Barry L. Zaret, M.D., the...
Spring 2005
Heping Zhang, Ph.D.
Heping Zhang, Ph.D., professor of public health (biostatistics), has received two grants totaling $1.5 million over...
Fall/Winter 2004
Two appointed to Cancer Center posts
Ira Mellman, Ph.D. ’78, chair and Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and professor of immunobiology, has been named...
Fall/Winter 2004
Psychiatry professor honored with endowed chair
William H. Sledge, M.D., HS ’73, FW ’75, professor of psychiatry and master of Calhoun College, has been appointed the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Warner named director of Physician Associate Program
Mary L. Warner, M.M.Sc., PA-C, interim director since last November, has been named assistant dean and director of the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Seymour L. Lustman Research Award
The Department of Psychiatry announced this year’s winners of the Seymour L. Lustman Research Award, which recognizes...
Fall/Winter 2004
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, Karen B. Dorsey, M.D., Nina Kadan-Lottick, M.D., Peter T. Morgan, Ph.D., M.D., Margaret A. Pisani, M.D., M.P.H. ’01
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, professor of medicine and director of the Yale K12 Mentored Clinical Research...
Fall/Winter 2004
Terri R. Fried, M.D.
Terri R. Fried, M.D., associate professor of medicine (geriatrics), received the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for...
Fall/Winter 2004
Diane M. Gallo-VanEss, M.D.
Diane M. Gallo-VanEss, M.D., clinical instructor of pediatrics at Yale and a senior staff member at Bridgeport...
Fall/Winter 2004
Ami J. Klin, Ph.D., Fred R. Volkmar, M.D.
Ami J. Klin, Ph.D., the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Nita J. Maihle, Ph.D.
Nita J. Maihle, Ph.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was elected in June to a one-year term as the...
Fall/Winter 2004
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D.
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, has been named deputy editor of RSNA News (Radiological...
Fall/Winter 2004
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D.
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and pharmacology, was honored in May as the second Virginia...
Fall/Winter 2004
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D., HS
Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D. ’66, HS ’73, the Charles W. Ohse Professor of Surgery and director of the Yale Head and Neck...
Fall/Winter 2004
Hui Zhang, Ph.D.
Hui Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics, received the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program...
Summer 2004
Graduate school dean moves to Yale College
Psychology professor Peter Salovey replaces Richard Brodhead as dean of the undergraduate school.A little over a year...
Summer 2004
Former Cancer Center director honored with professorship
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., has been named the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine in recognition of his...
Summer 2004
Faculty members selected as fellows of AAAS
Three members of the Yale University faculty with medical school affiliations were named fellows of the American...
Summer 2004
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, Susan E. Hardy, M.D.
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H. ’89, professor of medicine (geriatrics), associate clinical professor of nursing and...
Summer 2004
Liza D. Cariaga-Lo, Ed.D., Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D.
Two members of the medical school faculty have been named to a re-established Minority Advisory Council (MAC). The MAC...
Summer 2004
Margaret J. Bia, M.D., Marc I. Lorber, M.D., Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S.
Three Yale faculty members were honored in April by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) of Connecticut with the...
Summer 2004
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D.
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology and chief of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,...
Summer 2004
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., HS
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’66, the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center, was...
Summer 2004
Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS
Joseph E. Craft, M.D., HS ’77, professor of medicine and immunobiology, has been named director of the Investigative...
Summer 2004
Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D.
Elena L. Grigorenko, Ph.D. ’96, associate professor of psychology and associate professor of child studies in the Child...
Summer 2004
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., HS
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’63, professor of pathology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology,...
Summer 2004
Marvin Moser, M.D.
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine and editor in chief of the Journal of Clinical Hypertension, has...
Summer 2004
Susan S. Spencer, Ph.D
Susan S. Spencer, Ph.D., professor of neurology, has received the Clinical Investigator Award from the American...
Summer 2004
V. Robin Weersing, Ph.D
V. Robin Weersing, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Child Study Center, was one of six researchers named a William T....
Summer 2004
Barry L. Zaret, M.D.
Barry L. Zaret, M.D., the Robert Berliner Professor of Medicine, chief of the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and...
Spring 2004
Five faculty members honored with endowed professorships
Pietro de Camilli, M.D., FW ’79, professor of cell biology, has been named the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell...
Spring 2004
Myron Genel, M.D.
Myron Genel, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics, has received the Joseph W. St. Geme Jr. Leadership Award,...
Spring 2004
James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D.
James D. Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded the William Go Award by the American Pancreatic Association. The award is...
Spring 2004
Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H. ’03
Keith A. Joiner, M.D., M.P.H. ’03, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, became dean of the University of...
Spring 2004
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D.
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D., assistant professor of gerontology, was named the 2003 recipient of the Margret M. Baltes Early...
Spring 2004
Robert W. Makuch, Ph.D.
Robert W. Makuch, Ph.D., professor and former head of the Division of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, was...
Autumn 2003
New hand on the Cancer Center tiller
When Richard L. Edelson, M.D. ’70, came to Yale in 1986 as professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology, the...
Autumn 2003
New appointments in provost’s office place science in the spotlight
New appointments in the office of Yale Provost Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., leave science and the medical side of campus...
Autumn 2003
A legend in the annals of Yale medicine returns, in person and on canvas
When new interns in the Department of Internal Medicine arrived in July 1964, little did they know that they would be...
Autumn 2003
Thirteen Grants Awarded from The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)
Researchers at the School of Medicine have received 13 grants from The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia...
Autumn 2003
Roland E. Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Roland E. Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of orthopaedics and cell biology, received the Louis V. Avioli Founders Award...
Autumn 2003
Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’97
Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’97, associate professor in public health, is the first Yale researcher to be...
Autumn 2003
Sonia Caprio, M.D.
A researcher who studies metabolic changes associated with obesity and type 2 diabetes has received the first...
Autumn 2003
David C. Cone, M.D.
David C. Cone, M.D., associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and public health, was installed in January as...
Autumn 2003
Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.
Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., chair and Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and professor of cell...
Autumn 2003
Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.
Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., chair and Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and professor of cell...
Autumn 2003
Mark J. Gorman, M.D.
Mark J. Gorman, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, was appointed director of the Acute Brain Injury/Stroke Program...
Autumn 2003
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology (chronic disease) and psychology, was elected as a...
Autumn 2003
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and immunobiology, received the 2003 Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines...
Autumn 2003
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., professor of public health (global health) and political science, was invited to be a member...
Autumn 2003
Luke M. Kitahata, M.D., Ph.D.
Luke M. Kitahata, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus and former chair of anesthesiology, was honored in November 2002 at...
Autumn 2003
Michael H. Merson, M.D.
Michael H. Merson, M.D., the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, dean of public health and chair of the...
Autumn 2003
John A. Persing, M.D.
John A. Persing, M.D., professor and chief of plastic surgery, is president-elect of the Association of Academic...
Autumn 2003
Mary E. Schwab-Stone, M.D.
Among those receiving Seton Elm-Ivy Awards in April for their contributions to relations between the city and the...
Autumn 2003
Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D
Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D., the Ira V. Hiscock Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Genetics, has received...
Summer 2003
Psychologist to lead Graduate School
“There’s probably no farther walk on this campus than from the Sterling Hall of Medicine to the Kline Biology Tower,”...
Summer 2003
Robert L. Bell, M.D.
Robert L. Bell, M.D., an assistant professor of surgery (gastroenterology) who specializes in minimally invasive and...
Summer 2003
James A. Brink, M.D., Anne McB. Curtis, M.D. ’70, HS ’75, Vladimir Neklesa, M.D., Howard P. Forman, M.D.
The Yale Medical Group recently announced the following appointments: James A. Brink, M.D., professor of diagnostic...
Summer 2003
José Costa, M.D.
José Costa, M.D., deputy director of the Yale Cancer Center and professor and vice chair of pathology, was awarded the...
Summer 2003
Michael H. Ebert, M.D.
Michael H. Ebert, M.D., former chair of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was appointed professor...
Summer 2003
Jack A. Elias, M.D
Jack A. Elias, M.D., the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, received the Recognition Award for Scientific...
Summer 2003
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D.
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology and co-director of the Interdepartmental...
Summer 2003
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D.
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology and co-director of the Interdepartmental...
Summer 2003
David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H.
David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. ’93, associate clinical professor of health policy and administration in epidemiology and...
Summer 2003
David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H.
David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. ’93, associate clinical professor of health policy and administration in epidemiology and...
Summer 2003
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., HS
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. ’55, HS ’61, clinical professor of surgery (gastroenterology), received the John P. McGovern...
Summer 2003
M. Bruce Shields, M.D
M. Bruce Shields, M.D., Marvin Sears Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and chair of ophthalmology and...
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...
Spring 2003
Linda C. Degutis, Dr.Ph.
Linda C. Degutis, Dr.Ph., associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine) and public health, and associate clinical...
Spring 2003
Joel E. Gelernter, M.D., Robert Malison, M.D.
Joel E. Gelernter, M.D., professor of psychiatry, Robert Malison, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, and...
Spring 2003
Fadi G. Lakkis, M.D.
Fadi G. Lakkis, M.D., associate professor of medicine (nephrology) and immunology, received the 2002 Young Investigator...
Spring 2003
Brian P. Leaderer, M.P.H., Ph.D., Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D., Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D., Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D., Tongzhang Zheng, Sc.D.
The following appointments have been made at the School of Public Health: Brian P. Leaderer, M.P.H. ’71, Ph.D. ’75, the...
Spring 2003
Richard C. Levin
University President Richard C. Levin received The Hill Development Corporation’s Annual Courtland Seymour Wilson...
Spring 2003
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S.
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., the Donald Guthrie Professor Emeritus of Surgery, has been named the first director of the...
Spring 2003
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of neuroscience and chair of neurobiology, and Patricia...
Spring 2003
Mark H. Schoenfeld, M.D
Mark H. Schoenfeld, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, is currently serving as president of the North American...
Spring 2003
Jack C. Sinclair, M.D.
Jack C. Sinclair, M.D., adjunct professor in epidemology and pediatrics and a pioneer in the care and treatment of...
Winter 2003
Neurobiologist named university provost
In another era, the appointment of Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., as provost might have been remarkable because of her gender....
Winter 2003
Three professors, authorities in genetics and immunology, receive Sterling honor
Three faculty members at the School of Medicine have been named to Sterling chairs, one of the university’s highest...
Winter 2003
Distinguished company
Founding members of the new Society of Distinguished Teachers gathered for a reception on September 24 in the Beaumont...
Winter 2003
Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’97, Barbara I. Kazmierczak, M.S., M.D., Ph.D.
Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’97, associate professor of epidemiology and public health, left, and Barbara I....
Winter 2003
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, has received several honors this...
Winter 2003
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, professor emeritus of medicine, was honored in May upon his “second” retirement, after...
Winter 2003
R. Lawrence Moss, M.D.
R. Lawrence Moss, M.D., associate professor of surgery and a recent addition to the School of Medicine faculty, has...
Winter 2003
Frederick Naftolin, M.D., D.Phil.
Frederick Naftolin, M.D., D.Phil., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and professor of molecular, cellular and...
Winter 2003
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair and professor of neurobiology and the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience,...
Winter 2003
Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D., Elias Lolis, Ph.D.
Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D., the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology, and Elias Lolis, Ph.D., associate professor of...
Winter 2003
Douglas W. Vaughn, M.D., D.D.S.
Douglas W. Vaughn, M.D., D.D.S., assistant professor of anesthesiology, has been appointed medical director of...
Autumn 2002
New leaders announced in four disciplines
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., has announced the appointments of four new departmental and section leaders.Charles J....
Autumn 2002
With a new name, auditorium honors late director of Yale’s Child Study Center
Before he died, Donald J. Cohen, M.D. ’66, the director of the Child Study Center, found warmth and comfort in a quilt...
Autumn 2002
Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D.
The National Academy of Sciences announced in April the election of its new members and foreign associates in...
Autumn 2002
Paula A. Armbruster, M.A., M.S.W.
Paula A. Armbruster, M.A., M.S.W., associate clinical professor and director of outpatient services in the Child Study...
Autumn 2002
Jonathan B. Borak, M.D.
Jonathan B. Borak, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine (industrial) and epidemiology, received a President’s...
Autumn 2002
R. Todd Constable, Ph.D.
R. Todd Constable, Ph.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and neurosurgery, was awarded a $1 million,...
Autumn 2002
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS ’66, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and public health and director of the...
Autumn 2002
Michael P. DiGiovanna, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael P. DiGiovanna, M.D. ’90, Ph.D. ’90, associate professor of medicine (oncology) and pharmacology and co-director...
Autumn 2002
Bruce C. Fichandler, PA
Bruce C. Fichandler, PA, lecturer in plastic surgery and director of admissions for the Yale Physician Associate...
Autumn 2002
Gerald H. Friedland, M.D
Gerald H. Friedland, M.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology and director of the aids Program at Yale-New Haven...
Autumn 2002
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D.
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor of pediatrics and microbial pathogenesis, was named the 30th annual Maxwell...
Autumn 2002
Jeanette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Jeanette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology and psychology and director of the Connecticut Women’s...
Autumn 2002
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., professor of public health (global health) and political science, served as Distinguished...
Autumn 2002
I. George Miller, M.D.
I. George Miller, M.D., the John Enders Professor of Pediatrics and professor of epidemiology and molecular biophysics...
Autumn 2002
Irvin M. Modlin, M.D.
Irvin M. Modlin, M.D., professor of surgery, was appointed to the King James IV Professorship of the Royal College of...
Autumn 2002
Kitt Mia Falk Petersen, M.D.
Kitt Mia Falk Petersen, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (endocrinology) and assistant director of the General...
Autumn 2002
Fredrick C. Redlich, M.D.
Fredrick C. Redlich, M.D., professor emeritus, former chair of psychiatry and dean of the School of Medicine from 1967...
Autumn 2002
Karin M. Reinisch, Ph.D.
Karin M. Reinisch, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, was named the 2002 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical...
Autumn 2002
Francoise J. Roux, M.D., Ph.D.
After a fellowship in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at Yale, Francoise J. Roux, M.D., Ph.D., has joined...
Autumn 2002
Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D.
Vion Pharmaceuticals announced in April that the chair of its Scientific Advisory Board, Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D.,...
Autumn 2002
David Seligson, Sc.D., M.D.
David Seligson, Sc.D., M.D., professor emeritus of laboratory medicine at Yale, was awarded an honorary degree from...
Autumn 2002
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D.
Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., professor of pediatrics and a faculty member in the Child Study Center, was one of six new...
Autumn 2002
Peter A. Takizawa, Ph.D.
Peter A. Takizawa, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology, was named a Searle Scholar earlier this year. The Searle...
Autumn 2002
John Dystel Prize
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., chair of neurology and co-director of the Yale-London Collaboration on Central Nervous...
Autumn 2002
Joseph L. Woolston, M.D.
Joseph L. Woolston, M.D. ’70, professor of pediatrics and a member of the Child Study Center faculty, was appointed...
Autumn 2002
Barry J. Wu, M.D.
Barry J. Wu, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from the...
Spring 2002
Psychologist to lead Child Study Center
Early in his career as a clinical psychologist, Alan E. Kazdin, Ph.D., asked two fundamental questions about the work...
Spring 2002
Carolyn Mazure, a leader in women’s health research, appointed associate dean
Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, has been named...
Spring 2002
Renowned neurosurgeon, specialist in brain tumors, named endowed professor
Joseph M. Piepmeier, M.D., who specializes in brain tumors and spinal cord traumas, has been appointed the...
Spring 2002
Kevin R. Anderson, M.D., John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83, Amy L. Friedman, M.D., Richard Gusberg, M.D., James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., Ronald R. Salem, M.D., Clarence T. Sasaki, M.D. ’66, HS ’73, Neal Seymour, M.D., Robert Udelsman, M.D.
A New York magazine cover article titled “Surgery Without Scars ...” has included nine surgeons in the Yale Medical...
Spring 2002
Sonja V. Batten, Ph.D.
Sonja V. Batten, Ph.D., has been hired as the associate director of Women’s Health Research at Yale. Batten has...
Spring 2002
Paul G. Barash, M.D.
Paul G. Barash, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, delivered the Winter College Lecture to the College of Anesthetists...
Spring 2002
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D.
A symposium and reception to honor the contributions of Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and psychology,...
Spring 2002
Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., James P. Comer, M.D., HS
Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., the Harris Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry, and James P. Comer, M.D., HS ’67, the...
Spring 2002
Martin E. Gordon, M.D.
Martin E. Gordon, M.D. ’46, clinical professor of medicine and chair of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates’...
Spring 2002
David A. Kessler, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., was elected in January to chair the board of directors of The...
Spring 2002
William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D.
William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D., professor and section chief of pediatric endocrinology, is heading a national group...
Spring 2002
Anthony N. van den Pol, Ph.D.
Anthony N. van den Pol, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery, was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes...
Winter 2002
Institute elects two from faculty
Two faculty members at the School of Medicine have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National...
Winter 2002
Three faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among the 211 new members inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, six were from Yale and...
Winter 2002
Four faculty members in public health honored with endowed chairs
Four faculty members with appointments at the School of Public Health were recently named to endowed chairs.Dean...
Winter 2002
19 faculty members receive awards for research on brain disorders
Five Yale researchers have received Independent Investigator grants totaling almost $500,000 from the National Alliance...
Winter 2002
Henry J. Binder, M.D.
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology, will share in a five-year, $1...
Winter 2002
James P. Comer, M.D., Robert Heimer, Ph.D. ’88, Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D., Paul L. McCarthy, M.D., Patrick G. O’Connor, M.D., Therese R. Rabatsky-Ehr, M.P.H. ’96
James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor in the Child Study Center and professor of psychiatry, was presented...
Winter 2002
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, Keith A. Joiner, M.D., Elizabetta Ullu, Ph.D., Peter Cresswell, Ph.D.
Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, professor of genetics and pediatrics, received the 2001 Hans Neurath Award from the...
Winter 2002
Becca Levy
Becca Levy, assistant professor of epidemiology (chronic disease), received the Adult Development and Aging Division 20...
Winter 2002
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair of genetics, professor of genetics, medicine and molecular biophysics and...
Winter 2002
Perry L. Miller, M.D.
Perry L. Miller, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and director of Medical Informatics, was awarded a $1.3 million...
Winter 2002
Alvin Novick, M.D.
Alvin Novick, M.D., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of epidemiology and public health, received the...
Winter 2002
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical...
Winter 2002
Stephen M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D.
Stephen M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D., the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and professor of neurobiology, received...
Winter 2002
Morris Traube, M.D.
Morris Traube, M.D., professor of medicine (digestive diseases) and director of the GI Procedure Center, recently...
Winter 2002
Robert I. White Jr., M.D.
Robert I. White Jr., M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and director of the Vascular Malformation Clinical and...
Winter 2002
Tian Xu, M.D.
Tian Xu, M.D. ’90, associate professor of genetics and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was...
Winter 2002
Edward F. Zigler, Ph.D.
Edward F. Zigler, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Psychology and a faculty member in the Child Study Center, received the...
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 2001
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56, professor of dermatology, was honored at a Yale symposium on April 28 to...
Autumn 2001
Daniel C. DiMaio, M.D., Ph.D.
Daniel C. DiMaio, M.D., Ph.D., professor of genetics, was honored by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for...
Autumn 2001
Howard P. Forman, M.D.
Howard P. Forman, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and vice chair of finance and administration in the...
Autumn 2001
Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., HS
Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., HS ’74, the Wayne O. Southwick Professor and chair of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, was...
Autumn 2001
Nicholas M. Greene, M.D.
On June 26, the School of Medicine announced the completion of a fund-raising effort that will establish the first...
Autumn 2001
Bonnie Kaplan, Ph.D.
Bonnie Kaplan, Ph.D., lecturer in anesthesiology (medical informatics), was recently inducted into the American College...
Autumn 2001
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D.
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., professor of public health and of political science and head of the division of global...
Autumn 2001
James F. Leckman, M.D.
James F. Leckman, M.D., the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, received a...
Autumn 2001
Stephen E. Malawista, M.D., HS
Stephen E. Malawista, M.D., HS ’60, professor of medicine, has been named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon...
Autumn 2001
Ravinder Nath, Ph.D.
Ravinder Nath, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and head of the section of radiological physics, received the...
Autumn 2001
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D
Pasko Rakic, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Section of Neurobiology and the Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of...
Autumn 2001
Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D.
Alan C. Sartorelli, Ph.D., the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology, received the 20th American Association for...
Autumn 2001
M. Bruce Shields, M.D.
M. Bruce Shields, M.D., professor and chair of ophthalmology and visual science, was elected to serve as chair of the...
Spring 2001
New chairs appointed in three departments; clinical leadership changes
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., has announced the appointment of three new chairs to lead the departments of Cell Biology,...
Spring 2001
Aghajanian, Hostetter elected to Institute of Medicine
George K. Aghajanian, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor of...
Spring 2001
Thomas Steitz honored with Sterling Professorship
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., internationally known for his work in X-ray crystallography, has been honored with an...
Spring 2001
Patricia Goldman-Rakic named Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., a world leader in the study of the brain’s cellular mechanisms for memory and...
Spring 2001
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D.
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and an associate...
Spring 2001
Thomas M. Gill, M.D.
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Yale Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and...
Spring 2001
Elaine E. Grant, M.P.H. ’92, PA-C
Elaine E. Grant, M.P.H. ’92, PA-C, assistant dean and director of the Physician Associate Program, began a one-year...
Spring 2001
David A. Kessler, M.D.
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., received the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Public Welfare Medal in April at the NAS...
Spring 2001
K.J. Lee, M.D.
K.J. Lee, M.D., associate clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology) and managing partner of the Southern New...
Spring 2001
William H. Prusoff, Ph.D.
William H. Prusoff, Ph.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in pharmacology, has been honored by the...
Spring 2001
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D., HS
Robert A. Rosenheck, M.D., HS ’77, professor of psychiatry and of epidemiology and public health, has received the Carl...
Spring 2001
M. Bruce Shields, M.D.
M. Bruce Shields, M.D., professor and chair of ophthalmology and visual science, has been honored by the Duke...
Spring 2001
Heping Zhang, Ph.D
Heping Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology and a member of the Child Study Center faculty, has been named...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Vanderbilt professor is named physiology chair
Steven C. Hebert, M.D., one of the world’s leading authorities on the kidney’s regulation of potassium and other salts,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Six professors named to endowed professorships
University President Richard C. Levin, Ph.D., has named six members of the medical school faculty to endowed...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Donald Cohen named Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry
Donald J. Cohen, M.D., who specializes in neuropsychiatric disorders of children, including autism, Tourette’s syndrome...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Mary Tinetti, noted for work on health issues of the elderly, assumes Crofoot Chair
Mary E. Tinetti, M.D., the new Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine, has devoted her career to the health of...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Stephen Strittmatter is appointed to new Coates Chair in Neurology
Stephen M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D., who has been named to the Vincent Coates Chair in Neurology, is a specialist in...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Pharmacology expert John Krystal is designated Kent Professor
John H. Krystal, M.D., the newly appointed Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, is an expert on the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Asthma specialist Jack Elias named a Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine
Jack A. Elias, M.D., newly named as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is a noted specialist in asthma and...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Keith Joiner, expert on infectious disease, also appointed a Von Zedtwitz Professor
Keith A. Joiner, M.D., newly appointed as Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, is an expert on infectious...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Endowed chair to honor cardiothoracic pioneer
Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon William W.L. Glenn, M.D., is being honored with a professorship in his name at the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., William V. Tamborlane Jr., M.D., Donald Ross Coustan, M.D. ’68, HS ’73
Yale physicians have taken on leadership roles in the American Diabetes Association, the nation’s leading voluntary...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Truett Allison, Ph.D. ’62, Ernest I. Kohorn, M.CHIR., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., Peter Lengyel, Ph.D.
Three senior faculty members who came to Yale School of Medicine in the 1960s attained emeritus status this year:...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Mark R. Cullen, M.D. ’76, HS ’80
Mark R. Cullen, M.D. ’76, HS ’80, professor of medicine in occupational medicine and of public health, was selected by...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., HS
The American College of Cardiology presented an award for humanitarian accomplishments to Nelson R. Mandela of South...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Arthur C. Evans, Ph.D.
Arthur C. Evans, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, has been named deputy commissioner of the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Durland Fish, Ph.D
Durland Fish, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology in microbial diseases, has been named editor of Vector Borne...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., HS
Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., HS ’74, the Wayne O. Southwick Professor and chair of orthopaedics and rehabilitation,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D.
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology and co-director of the Interdepartmental...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Lise R. Heginbotham, Ph.D
Lise R. Heginbotham, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, was selected as a 2000 Pew...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology in chronic disease, and of psychology, received the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H.
Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H., associate dean for administration and assistant professor of medicine and public health,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D.
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., professor of public health and of political science and head of the division of global...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Lowell S. Levin, M.P.H.
Lowell S. Levin, M.P.H.. ’60, professor emeritus and lecturer in public health, has been serving as a senior consultant...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Becca Levy, Ph.D
Becca Levy, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology, was awarded the Brookdale National Fellowship for Leadership in...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Marc I. Lorber, M.D.
Marc I. Lorber, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of organ transplantation and immunology, was named...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S.
Bernard Lytton, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., the Donald Guthrie Professor Emeritus of Surgery, was elected president of the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D.
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunobiology, has been named an assistant investigator for the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Charles W. Needham, M.D.
Charles W. Needham, M.D., clinical instructor in neurosurgery, discussed pacemaker systems in May at the McGill...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D.
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and pharmacology, and in the Cancer Center, was appointed...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
James C. Rosser Jr., M.D.
Gastroenterologist James C. Rosser Jr., M.D., associate professor of surgery, was featured in a documentary entitled...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Association for Health Services
Mark J. Schlesinger, Ph.D., associate professor of public health, received the Association for Health Services...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Marvin L. Sears, M.D.
Marvin L. Sears, M.D., adjunct professor of ophthalmology and visual science, and founder and former chair of the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Howard M. Spiro, M.D.
Howard M. Spiro, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and founder of the Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Marietta Vazquez, M.D.
Marietta Vazquez, M.D., postdoctoral fellow in pediatrics, has received support for a four-year fellowship under the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS ’59, clinical professor of surgery, received the Chevalier Jackson Award in May from the...
Summer 2000
Janeway elected to NAS
Charles A. Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology, biology and dermatology, was elected to the National Academy...
Summer 2000
Doudna receives Waterman Award
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, whose leading work in structural biology...
Summer 2000
School of Medicine faculty elected to CASE
The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering recently announced the election of new members, including several...
Summer 2000
Roberta L. Hines, M.D., HS
Roberta L. Hines, M.D., HS ’77, chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, has been elected president of the Society of...
Spring 2000
Farewell to ‘The Giff’
Bob Gifford the deputy dean, Bob Gifford the teacher, Bob Gifford the husband and father, and Bob Gifford the teammate...
Spring 2000
Issam Abdullah Awad, M.D.
Issam Abdullah Awad, M.D., the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery, was named president-elect for 1999-2000 by...
Spring 2000
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D.
Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D., chief of the psychology section of the Department of Psychiatry, received the Distinguished...
Spring 2000
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’66
James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’66, Maurice Falk Professor in the Child Study Center and of psychiatry and one of the...
Spring 2000
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., HS
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83, professor and chief of the section of cardiothoracic surgery, delivered an...
Spring 2000
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D.
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., professor of medicine and director of graduate medical education for the School of Medicine...
Spring 2000
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D
Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., dean of the Yale Graduate School and professor of neurobiology, was elected a member-at-large...
Spring 2000
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology and psychology, will receive the 2000 Early Career...
Spring 2000
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D.
Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, collaborated with Walt Disney...
Spring 2000
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
James R. Merikangas, M.D., lecturer in psychiatry, spoke in September at the Neurosciences and Psychiatry Congress of...
Spring 2000
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D.
Robert S. Sherwin, M.D., the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine and endocrinology and director of the Diabetes...
Spring 2000
Albert J. Solnit, M.D.
Albert J. Solnit, M.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus in the Child Study Center, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, was honored...
Spring 2000
Richard S. Stahl, M.D., HS
Richard S. Stahl, M.D., HS ’81, clinical professor of surgery (plastic surgery), has been appointed associate chief of...
Spring 2000
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., HS ’59, clinical professor of surgery and otolaryngology, received a Presidential Citation of...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Six professors join ranks of emeritus faculty
Six senior faculty members at the School of Medicine attained emeritus status this year: Jerome M. Eisenstadt, Ph.D.,...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Jonathan B. Borak, M.D.
Jonathan B. Borak, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, was elected in April to the board of directors of...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56
Irwin M. Braverman, M.D. ’55, HS ’56, professor of dermatology, was presented the David Martin Carter Mentor Award in...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Michael Cappello, M.D.
Michael Cappello, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics (infectious diseases), received the New Investigator Award in...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., HS
John A. Elefteriades, M.D. ’76, HS ’83, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, was appointed chief of the...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Michael D. Ezekowitz, M.D.
Michael D. Ezekowitz, M.D., professor of medicine (cardiology), was appointed chair and presenter of a session on...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Mark Gerstein, Ph.D.
The W.M. Keck Foundation announced in July the first five grant recipients under its newly established Distinguished...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Elaine E. Grant, PA-C, M.P.H.
Elaine E. Grant, PA-C, M.P.H. ’92, assistant dean and program director of the Physician Associate Program, was named...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D.
Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology and of psychology, was named an Emerging Leader for...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Marvin Moser, M.D., John Setaro, M.D.,
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Joel L. Rosenbaum
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a MERIT Award to Joel L. Rosenbaum, professor of molecular, cellular and...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Sanjeev Sethi, M.D
Sanjeev Sethi, M.D., a resident in clinical pathology, received a $25,000 fellowship as part of the College of American...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Stephen Waxman, M.D.
Stephen Waxman, M.D., professor and chair of neurology, was named visiting professor in the departments of anatomy and...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
William D. White, Ph.D.
William D. White, Ph.D., associate professor of public health, received the 1999 Article-of-the-Year Award in June from...
Summer 1999
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
The following Yale faculty have been elected to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering:...
Summer 1999
National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) has announced the recipients of its 1999...
Summer 1999
Kim Bottomly, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala has named Kim Bottomly, Ph.D., professor of...
Summer 1999
Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, was the keynote speaker in February for the...
Summer 1999
Myron Genel, M.D.
Myron Genel, M.D., professor of pediatrics, received the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award in April at the annual meeting...
Summer 1999
Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
The School of Medicine has received a $500,000 unrestricted cardiovascular/ metabolic research grant from Bristol-Myers...
Summer 1999
Lawrence C. Kaplan, M.D.
Lawrence C. Kaplan, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Disabled Child Care Program and the...
Summer 1999
Paula Kavathas, Ph.D., William B. Stewart, Ph.D.
Paula Kavathas, Ph.D., associate professor of genetics and immunobiology, and William B. Stewart, Ph.D., associate...
Summer 1999
Richard W. Kim, M.D.
Richard W. Kim, M.D., surgical resident in cardiothoracic surgery, was named a Baxter Research Fellow for 1999-2000 by...
Summer 1999
Sunita Maheshwari, M.D. (M.B.B.S.)
Sunita Maheshwari, M.D. (M.B.B.S.), clinical instructor in pediatrics (cardiology), was awarded the Laennec Society...
Summer 1999
Richard A. Marottoli, M.D.
Richard A. Marottoli, M.D., associate professor of medicine (geriatrics), received an Outstanding Research Award in the...
Summer 1999
W. Ian McDonald, Ph.D.
W. Ian McDonald, Ph.D., professor adjunct of neurology, presented the Helen Wilshire Walsh Lecture titled “The Dynamics...
Summer 1999
Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D.
Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, was awarded the fourth annual Herbert W....
Summer 1999
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of neurology and professor of pharmacology and neurobiology, was...
Summer 1999
Robert M. Weiss, M.D.
Robert M. Weiss, M.D., professor of surgery (urology) and in the Cancer Center, has been appointed interim chair and...
Spring 1999
Rimar appointed medical director of Yale Faculty Practice
Stephen Rimar, M.D., HS ’83-87, vice chair for finance and administration in the Department of Anesthesiology, has been...
Spring 1999
With an eye for detail, an expert on the lung shares his life’s work
In a basement office in Brady Memorial Laboratory, the evidence of a half-century of lung cancer research clutters the...
Spring 1999
Donaghue Foundation selects five investigators for long-term support
Five researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue...
Spring 1999
George K. Aghajanian, M.D.
George K. Aghajanian, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pharmacology, received the 1998 Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia...
Spring 1999
Vincent A.T. Andriole, M.D.
Vincent A.T. Andriole, M.D., HS professor of medicine, received the 1998 Bristol Award in November at the Infectious...
Spring 1999
Amy Arnsten, Ph.D., Ralph E. Hoffman, M.D., Scott W. Woods, M.D.
Amy Arnsten, Ph.D., research scientist in neurobiology, Ralph E. Hoffman, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, and...
Spring 1999
James L. Boyer, M.D.
James L. Boyer, M.D. ’78, professor of medicine, received the Distinguished Achievement Award in November from the...
Spring 1999
Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D.
Yung-Chi Cheng, Ph.D., the Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology and medicine, received the American Society for...
Spring 1999
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and assistant investigator at the Howard...
Spring 1999
Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D.
In October, Stephen C. Edberg, Ph.D., professor of laboratory medicine and medicine, was appointed United States...
Spring 1999
John A. Elefteriades, M.D.
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of the section of cardiothoracic surgery, delivered an...
Spring 1999
Gerald H. Friedland, M.D.
Gerald H. Friedland, M.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology, was honored on World AIDS Day in December with the...
Spring 1999
Siegfried J. Kra, M.D.
Siegfried J. Kra, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, conducted a symposium on hypertension in October in...
Spring 1999
John M. Leventhal, M.D.
John M. Leventhal, M.D., professor of pediatrics and a member of the Child Study Center faculty, received the 1998...
Spring 1999
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Genetics and professor of medicine, genetics, and molecular...
Spring 1999
Stephen E. Malawista, M.D.
Stephen E. Malawista, M.D., professor of medicine, was awarded an honorary doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by the...
Spring 1999
Bruce McClennan, M.D.
Bruce McClennan, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Academy of...
Spring 1999
Ira S. Mellman, Ph.D.
Ira S. Mellman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and immunobiology and director of the Program in Biological and...
Spring 1999
James R. Merikangas, M.D., HS
James R. Merikangas, M.D., HS ’71-72, lecturer in psychiatry, was elected president of the American Academy of Clinical...
Spring 1999
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D
Sara C. Rockwell, Ph.D., professor of therapeutic radiology and pharmacology, received the John Yuhas Award in October...
Spring 1999
Martin W. Sklaire, M.D.
Martin W. Sklaire, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics, was presented the 1998 Milton J.E. Senn Award by the...
Spring 1999
Brian R. Smith, M.D.
Brian R. Smith, M.D., professor of laboratory medicine, pediatrics and medicine (bone marrow transplantation), has been...
Spring 1999
Frans J.Th. Wackers, M.D.
Frans J.Th. Wackers, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology and medicine and director of cardiovascular nuclear...
Spring 1999
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., Dewey A. Christmas, M.D., HS
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology), presented two video programs in October during...
Winter 1999
Perfecting the Faculty Practice
David J. Leffell, M.D., medical director of the Yale Faculty Practice for the past three years and a professor of...
Winter 1999
AAAS elects seven fellows from ranks of faculty
Seven medical school faculty members were elected to the rank of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement...
Winter 1999
Faculty honored with endowed professorships
Joan A. Steitz, Ph.D., internationally renowned for her contributions to the field of molecular genetics, has been...
Winter 1999
Stephan Ariyan, M.D.
Stephan Ariyan, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (plastic), was honored by the Armenian-American Professionals...
Winter 1999
Robert S. Baltimore, M.D.
Robert S. Baltimore, M.D., professor of pediatrics and epidemiology, participated in the Consensus Development...
Winter 1999
Walter F. Boron, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’78-80
Walter F. Boron, M.D., Ph.D., HS ’78-80, professor of cellular and molecular physiology, has been elected president of...
Winter 1999
Michael J. Caplan, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael J. Caplan, M.D., Ph.D. ’87, professor of cellular and molecular physiology, was presented the 1998 Young...
Winter 1999
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., HS
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., HS ’52-54, Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, received the Oscar B. Hunter...
Winter 1999
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., HS
Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., HS ’74-75, professor of medicine, has been appointed director of graduate medical education...
Winter 1999
Ralph E. Hoffman, M.D
Ralph E. Hoffman, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, was among investigators at 22 U.S. and five international...
Winter 1999
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D.
Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., has been named professor of pediatrics and chief of the section of pediatric immunology...
Winter 1999
Charles A. Janeway Jr., M.D.
Charles A. Janeway Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology and biology, was presented the Irvington Institute’s...
Winter 1999
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., HS
Michael Kashgarian, M.D. ’58, HS ’59-63, professor of pathology and biology, was lauded by the Gesellshaft für...
Winter 1999
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D.
Ilona S. Kickbusch, Ph.D., has joined the faculty of Epidemiology and Public Health as professor of public health and...
Winter 1999
John A. Kirchner, M.D
John A. Kirchner, M.D., professor emeritus of otolaryngology, was conferred an honorary membership in the European...
Winter 1999
Kathryn E. McGoldrick, M.D.
Kathryn E. McGoldrick, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and medical director of ambulatory surgery, was elected in...
Winter 1999
Irvin M. Modlin, M.D., Ph.D.
Irvin M. Modlin, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery, was awarded the Huntarian Professorship in Surgery in September by...
Winter 1999
Linda Z. Mowad, R.N.
Linda Z. Mowad, R.N., director of the Cancer Information Service for New England at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer...
Winter 1999
Joseph M. Piepmeier, M.D., HS
Joseph M. Piepmeier, M.D., HS ’76-82, professor of neurosurgery and vice chair for clinical affairs, has been selected...
Winter 1999
Shachar Tauber, M.D.
Shachar Tauber, M.D., director of the Yale School of Medicine’s new Laser Vision Correction Service and assistant...
Winter 1999
Joseph B. Warshaw, M.D.
Joseph B. Warshaw, M.D., deputy dean for clinical affairs and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, received special...
Winter 1999
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D.
Bruce E. Wexler, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, participated in the consensus development conference on...
Winter 1999
William D. White, Ph.D.
William D. White, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology and public health (health policy and administration) and...
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...
Fall 1998
High honors for psychiatric research
Nine School of Medicine researchers have been awarded grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia...
Fall 1998
Pathology chair becomes department’s first Yesner Professor
Jon S. Morrow, M.D., professor and chair of pathology, and professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology,...
Fall 1998
Richard J. Antaya, M.D.
Richard J. Antaya, M.D., an authority in skin disorders affecting children, joined the faculty of the departments of...
Fall 1998
Michael B. Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’70
Michael B. Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’70, professor and head of chronic disease epidemiology and professor of neurology,...
Fall 1998
Erol Fikrig, M.D.
Erol Fikrig, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine, was a recipient of a $750,000, five-year grant from the...
Fall 1998
Heidi L. Gaspary, M.D.
Heidi L. Gaspary, M.D., Gilbert Glaser Fellow in Epilepsy and chief resident in neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital,...
Fall 1998
Roberto J. Groszmann, M.D., F.R.C.P.
An international, multicenter study headed by Roberto J. Groszmann, M.D., F.R.C.P., professor of medicine at Yale and...
Fall 1998
Joseph F. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Joseph F. Hoffman, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Physiology and a member of the faculty since 1965, was honored...
Fall 1998
Peter J. Hotez, M.D.
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., associate professor of epidemiology and pediatrics (infectious diseases), was named visiting...
Fall 1998
David A. Kessler, M.D
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., has accepted an invitation from the Mayday Fund to serve as honorary chair of its newly...
Fall 1998
The Surgeon’s Surgeon: Theodor Bilroth (1829-1894) volume IV
by Karel B. Abolson, M.D. ’52, Kabel Publishers (Rockville, Md.) 1998.
Fall 1998
Siegfried J. Kra, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine Siegfried J. Kra, M.D., F.A.C.P., was a guest lecturer at the Trumbull College...
Fall 1998
Marc I. Lorber, M.D
Marc I. Lorber, M.D., professor of surgery and chief of the section of organ transplantation and immunology in the...
Fall 1998
Frederick Naftolin, M.D., D.Phil.
Frederick Naftolin, M.D., D.Phil., professor and chairman of obstetrics and gynecology, and director of the Center for...
Fall 1998
Eric J. Nestler, Ph.D., M.D., HS
Eric J. Nestler, Ph.D. ’82, M.D. ’83, HS ’83-87, the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry,...
Fall 1998
Robert Rosenheck, M.D., Rani A. Hoff, M.P.H., Ph.D., Carolyn Mazure, M.D.,
Two Yale researchers, Robert Rosenheck, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and Rani A. Hoff, M.P.H. ’91, Ph.D.,...
Fall 1998
Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
The Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health Research gave Professor of Pediatrics Sally Shaywitz, M.D., the 1998...
Fall 1998
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE)
Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and pharmacology and chair of the Department of Neurology, was...
Fall 1998
Barry L. Zaret, M.D.
Barry L. Zaret, M.D., the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, professor of radiology and chief of cardiovascular...
Fall 1998
Daniel Zelterman, Ph.D.
Daniel Zelterman, Ph.D. ’83, professor of medicine (EPH), was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association...
Summer 1998
Medical school creates new deputy dean position for education
Robert H. Gifford, M.D., H.S. '67, who has served as associate dean for medical education and student affairs for the...
Summer 1998
One less car on the road
For the past four years Raymond Aten, Ph.D., a research scientist in obstetrics and gynecology, has commuted to work...
Summer 1998
Portrait of a pioneer
A portrait recently added to the walls of the School of Medicine honors Dorothy M. Horstmann, M.D., Sc.D., the John...
Summer 1998
Moment of reflection
In a ceremony Feb. 11 in the Beaumont Room University officials unveiled a portrait of Gerard N. Burrow, M.D., '58,...
Summer 1998
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D.
Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., director of the Yale Cancer Center and professor of internal medicine (oncology) and of...
Summer 1998
Robert M. Donaldson Jr., M.D.
Robert M. Donaldson Jr., M.D., David Paige Smith Emeritus Professor of Medicine, was honored in April when the VA...
Summer 1998
John A. Elefteriades, M.D.
John A. Elefteriades, M.D., professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, was elected a founding director of the...
Summer 1998
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected as fellows in the Section of Medical Sciences,...
Summer 1998
Peter M. Glazer, M.D.
Peter M. Glazer, M.D., associate professor of therapeutic radiology, received the Michael Fry Young Investigator award...
Summer 1998
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H.
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine, was presented the 1998 Otsuka/American Geriatrics...
Summer 1998
Michael Kashgarian, M.D.
Michael Kashgarian, M.D., professor of pathology and biology, received the James Colangelo Achievement Award by the...
Summer 1998
Daniel M. Koenigsberg, M.D.
Daniel M. Koenigsberg, M.D., associate clinical professor in the Child Study Center, was promoted to vice chairman of...
Summer 1998
Robert G. LaCamera, M.D.
Robert G. LaCamera, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics and pediatric nurse practitioner program (primary care), was...
Summer 1998
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, genetics and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been...
Summer 1998
Bruce McClennan, M.D
Bruce McClennan, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, was elected secretary of the American Roentgen Ray Society at...
Summer 1998
Joseph P. McGuirk, D.O.
The Yale Cancer Center has inaugurated a revolutionary bone marrow transplantation procedure between partially...
Summer 1998
Ira Mellman, Ph.D.
Ira Mellman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and immunology and director of the Program in Biological and Biomedical...
Summer 1998
Victor J. Navarro, M.D.
Victor J. Navarro, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, was honored in April by the American Liver Foundation for his...
Summer 1998
Kyle D. Pruett, M.D.
Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., clinical professor of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and the School of Nursing,...
Summer 1998
Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.D.
Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Physiology and deputy dean for...
Summer 1998
Howard M. Spiro, M.D.
Howard M. Spiro, M.D., director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine and professor of internal medicine (digestive...
Summer 1998
David C. Ward, Ph.D.
David C. Ward, Ph.D., professor of genetics and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, was one of three Yale...
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...
Winter/Spring 1998
Medical school chaplain promotes a curriculum of caring
It's a rare medical school that has its own chaplain, especially a chaplain who frequents the anatomy lab and writes...
Winter/Spring 1998
For the new dean, a welcome to Yale
Four of Yale's leading research scientists and physicians presented findings and an overview of their work at an...
Winter/Spring 1998
New chair for Cell Biology
When Pietro De Camilli, M.D., returned to Italy in 1981 after three years as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant...
Winter/Spring 1998
James J. Abrahams, M.D.
James J. Abrahams, M.D., associate professor of diagnostic radiology and surgery (otolaryngology), presented an...
Winter/Spring 1998
Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. '58
Gerard N. Burrow, M.D. '58, the David Paige Smith Professor of Medicine (endocrinology) and special advisor to the...
Winter/Spring 1998
Liza Cariago-Lo, M.S., Ed.D.
Liza Cariago-Lo, M.S., Ed.D., has been named director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and will work under the...
Winter/Spring 1998
J.G. Collins, Ph.D., D. Helaine Patterson
J.G. Collins, Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology and lecturer in pharmacology, and D. Helaine Patterson, director of...
Winter/Spring 1998
James P. Comer, M.D., HS
James P. Comer, M.D., HS '64-67, the Maurice Falk Professor in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry and...
Winter/Spring 1998
Vincent T. DeVita, M.D.
Vincent T. DeVita, M.D., director of the Yale Cancer Center and professor of medicine (oncology) and epidemiology and...
Winter/Spring 1998
John Elefteriades, M.D.
John Elefteriades, M.D. '72, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery, was named College Governor-Elect for...
Winter/Spring 1998
Janine Evans, M.D
Janine Evans, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (rheumatology), has been appointed medical director of the Yale-New...
Winter/Spring 1998
Bruce C. Fichandler, PA-C
Bruce C. Fichandler, PA-C '73, physician assistant in surgery, lecturer in surgery (plastic), and director of...
Winter/Spring 1998
Myron Genel, M.D.
Myron Genel, M.D., associate dean for government and community affairs and professor of pediatrics, was re-elected to...
Winter/Spring 1998
Renal Electrolyte Metabolism Physiology and Pathophysiology
Gerhard H. Giebisch, M.D., Sterling Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, was awarded an honorary doctorate...
Winter/Spring 1998
Thomas M. Gill, M.D.
Thomas M. Gill, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (geriatrics), was one of 10 junior faculty to receive the Paul...
Winter/Spring 1998
Caleb Gonzalez, M.D.
Caleb Gonzalez, M.D., professor of ophthalmology, was one of five pediatric ophthalmologists to receive the Honor Award...
Winter/Spring 1998
Martin E. Gordon, M.D.
Martin E. Gordon, M.D. '46, clinical professor of medicine and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Associates of...
Winter/Spring 1998
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D.
Charles A. Greer, Ph.D., professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology, organized and chaired the joint meeting of the...
Winter/Spring 1998
Pasko Rakic, M.D.
Pasko Rakic, M.D., chairman and Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neurobiology, was honored during the meeting with...
Winter/Spring 1998
Donald W. Kohn, M.D
Donald W. Kohn, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (dental) and pediatrics, and chief of dentistry at Yale-New Haven...
Winter/Spring 1998
Keat-Jin Lee, M.D.
Keat-Jin Lee, M.D., associate clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology), spoke on the Advanced Points of Ear...
Winter/Spring 1998
Richard H. Mattson, M.D.
Richard H. Mattson, M.D. '53, professor of neurology and vice chair for academic affairs, was honored with the 1997...
Winter/Spring 1998
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
The Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities sponsored James R. Merikangas, M.D., lecturer in psychiatry and...
Winter/Spring 1998
Marvin Moser, M.D.
Marvin Moser, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, was recognized for outstanding contributions to hypertension...
Winter/Spring 1998
Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., Benjamin S. Bunney, M.D.
Eric J. Nestler, M.D. '83, Ph.D. '82, professor of psychiatry, neurobiology, and pharmacology, and Benjamin S. Bunney,...
Winter/Spring 1998
Herbert S. Sacks, M.D.
Herbert S. Sacks, M.D. '52, clinical professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Child Study Center, became...
Winter/Spring 1998
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine (endocrinology), and of cellular and molecular physiology, was...
Winter/Spring 1998
Scott W. Wolfe, M.D.
Scott W. Wolfe, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the orthopaedic and rehabilitation...
Winter/Spring 1998
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D.
Eiji Yanagisawa, M.D., clinical professor of surgery (otolaryngology), was guest of honor at the 77th Annual Scientific...
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