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The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome the following new staff, faculty, postgraduate fellows, postgraduate associates, and postdoctoral associates who joined the team in September 2024.
- October 15, 2024
Erica Spatz, MD, MHS is focused on eliminating disparities in blood pressure control. She recently received a nearly $20 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a new study called Pressure Check. The study aims to improve health equity by comparing three intervention strategies to control blood pressure. Rafael Pѐrez-Escamilla, PhD, professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences), is the dual principal investigator.
- October 15, 2024Source: BBC
Harlan Krumholz, MD, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Yale School of Medicine, discusses the possibility of Ozempic slowing down the aging process.
- September 30, 2024
Aging is a natural process that unfolds as our bodies move through different stages of life. Research focused on aging is an interdisciplinary field, transcending geriatrics and spanning throughout internal medicine, public health, and many other disciplines. In recent years, the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center has focused on building partnerships and increasing resources on campus for faculty and trainees interested in pursuing aging research.
- September 26, 2024Source: Yale Medicine
Rachel Lampert, MD, Robert W Berliner Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), discusses LQTS, which often run in families and can be dangerous.
- September 24, 2024
Pollutants from fires can travel great distances and have the potential to affect human health thousands of kilometers away. In a new study, researchers from the Yale School of Public Health investigated whether long-term exposure to fine particles in wildfire smoke was associated with increases in causes of death.
- September 24, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a huge uptick in research across disciplines. In the first six months after the pandemic hit, 35,000 publications were indexed in PubMed; by the end of the year that number reached 90,000.
- September 18, 2024
Cesia Gallegos, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), was recently appointed program director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship. Emmanuel Akintoye, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), was appointed associate director of the program.
- September 18, 2024Source: CNN
Certain blockbuster weight-loss drugs have been found to protect the heart in significant ways, and new research suggests that the cardiovascular benefits could extend to an even broader set of patients than clinical trial data has shown – helping prevent tens of thousands of heart attacks and strokes each year in the United States.
- September 16, 2024
Pei-Yu Chen, PhD, senior research scientist, discusses her research on the transforming growth factor beta family and her new venture to use a lipid nanoparticle to more safely and effectively deliver drugs. Chen also shared her belief that consistency and dedication are key to a successful research career.