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Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
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Director, Operations Core, Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center

Student Thesis Chair, Internal Medicine

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Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)

Director, Operations Core, Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Student Thesis Chair, Internal Medicine

Biography

Dr. Ferrante is an Associate Professor in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and a Core Director at the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Her research program, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA), is centered at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics, with the overarching goal of understanding and improving the functional outcomes of critically ill older adults. Dr. Ferrante’s work has been recognized most recently with the Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science (2023) from the American Thoracic Society (ATS), where she also served as Chair of the Critical Care Program Committee for the ATS 2024 International Conference. Clinically, Dr. Ferrante is an attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital and in the Winchester Center for Lung Disease.

Active projects:

1. Evaluating the Unmet Needs of Older Adults to Promote Functional Recovery after a Critical Illness (LANTERN). National Institute on Aging, R01 AG079916; role: PI

2. COVID-19 in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Assessment (VALIANT). P30 AG021342-18S1; role: mPI

3. Secondary analysis of data in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS): Health Outcomes Among Older Adults with Medical and Social Vulnerability

4. Otoacoustic Emissions Testing to Identify Hearing Loss in the ICU: a Feasibility Study. OAIC Flexible High Value Award, U24 AG059624; role: mPI.

Completed Grant Funding (selected):

  1. Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging: The PREDICT Study (PRE-ICU Determinants of Post-ICU FunCTional Outcomes among Older Adults). National Institute on Aging, K76 AG057023; role: PI
  2. Feasibility, Acceptability, and Barriers to Implementation of a Geriatrics Bundle in the ICU: a Pilot Study (ACE-ICU). Pepper Pilot Award, Yale Pepper Center; role: PI
  3. GEMSSTAR (Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Subspecialists' Transition to Aging Research) awardee
  4. Pepper Scholar Career Development Award
  5. T. Franklin Williams Scholar (ATS/AAIM-ASP Career Development Award in Geriatrics)
  6. Parker B. Francis Research Opportunity Award (converted from a Parker B. Francis Fellowship Award after concurrent receipt of K)

Awards (selected):

Jo Rae Wright Award, American Thoracic Society, 2023

Critical Care Early Career Achievement Award, American Thoracic Society, 2022

Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award, American Geriatrics Society (AGS), 2021

Inaugural Arti Hurria Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in Internal Medicine, American Geriatrics Society (AGS), 2019

Intensive Care Global Rising Star Award, Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS), 2018

AGS/Merck New Investigator Award, 2016

Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Award, Yale School of Medicine, 2016

Training:

Internal Medicine residency: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship: Yale School of Medicine, 2015

Fellowship in Geriatric Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research (T32): Yale School of Medicine, 2015

Master of Health Science (MHS) degree: Yale School of Medicine, 2016

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Education & Training

MHS
Yale School of Medicine (2016)
Research Fellow in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research
Yale University (2015)
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Yale University (2015)
Internal Medicine Residency
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center (2010)
MD
Stony Brook School of Medicine (2007)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Aging; Critical Care Outcomes; Frail Elderly; Frailty; Intensive Care Units; International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health; Mobility Limitation

Research at a Glance

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Frequent collaborators of Lauren Ferrante's published research.

Publications

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Medical and Surgical Subspecialties Section

    Professional OrganizationsCo-Chair
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    Yale Department of Medicine Diversity Committee

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    Yale Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (PCCSM) Research Conference

    CommitteesCo-Director
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    Ethics Committee, Yale-New Haven Hospital

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    Program Committee, American Thoracic Society (ATS) Critical Care Assembly

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Clinical Care

Overview

Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS, is a pulmonary and critical care specialist who cares for patients in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH). She also attends to patients in the Winchester Chest Clinic Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program, where she cares for people who have lingering symptoms after COVID-19.

“It sounds cliché, but I became a doctor because I wanted to help people,” says Dr. Ferrante. In the MICU, that includes people with critical illnesses who are going through some of the toughest times in their lives. “In the MICU, we work to guide patients and families through those difficult times,” she says.

Both in the MICU and the post-COVID program, Dr. Ferrante notes that a comprehensive approach to the patient is important. Depending on their disease and symptoms, she may refer them to various specialists, who could include cardiologists, geriatricians, neurologists, otolaryngologists, or physical therapists. Particularly in the MICU, the goal for the doctor is to align care with the patient’s goals and treatment preferences, she says.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Ferrante is a researcher with an interest in understanding and improving the functional outcomes of older patients in intensive care units. A physician leader for the YNHH STEPS program, which helps seriously ill MICU patients maintain their mobility, Dr. Ferrante says this type of focus is changing care in a variety of ways. For example, a MICU doctor may focus less on sedation and more on helping the patient maintain strength and function, she says. “The field of critical care medicine used to be focused only on keeping people alive; now, we are also focused on preventing functional decline in the hospital and achieving functional recovery after discharge,” she says. “There has been a lot of interest in this area in the last decade.”

Clinical Specialties

Pulmonary Critical Care

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Board Certifications

  • Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine)

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2016

  • Pulmonary Disease

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2014

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Latest Certification Date
    2023
    Original Certification Date
    2010

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    300 Cedar Street

    New Haven, CT 06519

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