Yale CTSA Co-PI, John Krystal, MD, was a representative of the Coalition for Clinical and Translational Science visiting members of the U.S. Congress to discuss the importance of translational science for improving public health on November 12, 2024.
Pictured from left to right: Robert Kimberly, MD, a New Haven native and now Howard L. Holley Professor of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives (Clinical and Translational Research; 2006-present) in the Heersink School of Medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Past-President of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science; Kutia Swinney, Membership and Operations Senior Associate at the Clinical Research Forum; the Honorable Rosa DeLauro (D.-CT); John Krystal, MD, Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology, Co-Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Co-PI of the Yale CTSA, Chair of Psychiatry; Harry Selker, MD, Professor of Medicine, Executive Director for the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Chief of the Division of Clinical Care Research, Dean and Principal Investigator at Tufts Medical Center, CTSI and current President of the Association for Clinical and Translational Research; Dane Christiansen, Managing Partner at the Health and Medicine Counsel and the Coalition for Clinical and Translational Science, Washington, DC.
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