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    Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD, MPH

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    Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
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    Medical Director, HAVEN Free Clinic

    Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine

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    Titles

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

    Medical Director, HAVEN Free Clinic; Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine

    Biography

    Dr. Angela Kang-Giaimo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine where she received her MD and MPH degrees. She completed her residency training at the Yale Internal Medicine Primary Care Program and stayed on as a Chief Resident. She then joined the teaching faculty of the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2018-2021.

    She rejoined the Yale Faculty as Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine and member of the Program in Hospital Medicine in 2021. She served as Associate Clerkship Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship from July 2022-July 2023. She is currently the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director.

    Her academic interests include residency career coaching and student professional identity formation, point of care ultrasound, and the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. She is the co-founder of an NGO in the Dominican Republic that works to improve community health and build local capacity through a community health workers and chronic disease program. She also currently serves as co-medical director of the Yale medical student run HAVEN Free Clinic.

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    Education & Training

    Chief Resident
    Yale School of Medicine (2018)
    Resident
    Yale New Haven Hospital (2017)
    Intern
    Yale New Haven Hospital (2015)
    MD
    Tufts University School of Medicine (2014)
    MPH
    Tufts University School of Medicine (2014)
    Non Degree Program
    Bryn Mawr College, Pre-Medical Sciences (2009)
    BA
    Tufts University, International Relations (2008)

    Research

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Angela Kang-Giaimo's published research.

    Publications

    2024

    2020

    2019

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      American College of Physicians

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      Society of General Internal Medicine

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      Society of General Internal Medicine

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      HAVEN Free Clinic Steering Committee

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      Health Horizons International

    Clinical Care

    Overview

    Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD, MPH, is an internal medicine specialist, focusing on hypertensive urgency, emergency department management, and internal medicine teaching and consultation. She is the clerkship director of Internal Medicine.

    Dr. Kang-Giaimo’s research examines patient care during emergency situations, with an emphasis on hypertensive urgency (a sudden and severe increase in blood pressure). Her work explores ways to connect emergency department treatments with primary care physicians to ensure patients receive consistent and effective care.

    A recipient of numerous awards, including multiple Teacher of the Year awards, the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, the Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars Program Award, the John T. Harrington Award for Humanity, and the Commencement Committee Award, Dr. Kang-Giaimo is an assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

    Clinical Specialties

    General Internal Medicine

    Board Certifications

    • Internal Medicine

      Certification Organization
      AB of Internal Medicine
      Original Certification Date
      2017

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