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Rohan Khera, MD, MS, a known expert in healthcare informatics, to serve on a leading medical journal.
- May 30, 2023
Silvia Vilarinho, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (digestive diseases) and of pathology; was named the 2023 Leah Lowenstein Award recipient at the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 22, 2023. Stephen Wang, MD, MPH, a PGY-3 resident in the Department of Internal Medicine’s Primary Care Residency Program was honored with the Betsy Winters House Staff Award, along with Justin Nguyen, MD, a chief resident in the Department of Urology.
- May 22, 2023
Clemente Britto-Leon, MD, assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine) at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), received the Carol Basbaum Award from the Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (RCMB) Assembly of the American Thoracic Society.
- May 20, 2023
Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine) has won the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science.
- May 12, 2023
Bill Damsky, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and dermatopathology is the recipient of the 2023 LEO Foundation Award in Region Americas. The $100,000 award recognizes Dr. Damsky’s research on cutaneous sarcoidosis and granuloma annulare (GA), both inflammatory skin conditions without FDA-approved treatments.
- May 09, 2023
Traditional Internal Medicine Hospital Resident Saeed Soleymanjahi, MD, MPH started looking for research projects and mentors during the first year of his residency training at Yale, and due to workloads and time constraints, found it challenging to get connected with mentors. Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency program Shaili Gupta, MBBS, had been examining ways to make research mentor/mentee connection easier over the last few years.
- May 09, 2023
Irene Chernova, MD, PhD, instructor of medicine (nephrology) has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, Physician-Scientist Trainee Award.
- May 05, 2023
Dr. Valerie Tornini, a postdoctoral researcher and developmental biologist in the Yale Department of Genetics, was recently awarded the National Institutes of Health’s K99 Pathway to Independence award.
- May 01, 2023
Benjamin Goldman-Israelow, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases), was selected for a 2023 American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Council Young Physician Scientist Award.
- April 25, 2023
Miraj Desai, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, was invited to participate in Catalyze, a national summit on race and health equity organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.