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The Yale Department of Internal Medicine is proud to welcome three new professors: Lydia Aoun-Barakat, MD; Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH; and Priti Kumar, PhD.

A Yale research team was interested in finding out how difficult it would be to obtain a prescription online. They created a patient profile of a 27-year-old male who qualified for a GLP-1 and attempted to obtain a prescription through 49 different websites. Overall, 92% prescribed the GLP medication and 69% mailed it. The researchers' findings were published in JAMA on July 6, 2026.

Have you ever encountered a task that you know would be more efficiently completed with the help of a program or an artificial intelligence (AI) tool? Perhaps there's a small pain point in your workflow, but the idea of creating an AI-aided solution sounds overwhelming. The Citizen Developer Workshop, hosted by the Educational Technology & Innovation (ETI) team, was designed with exactly these challenges in mind.

The Department of Medicine's Visiting Student Scholarship Program is continuing to accept applications for three scholarship

The Yale Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to announce two new publications that showcase the department's impact on research, education, and patient care.

Six Yale School of Medicine (YSM) faculty members have been recognized for their significant career accomplishments and contributions to medical practice, science, medicine, and the community. At a ceremony on Monday, June 22, the following individuals were honored for receiving the David J. Leffell, MD, Prize for Clinical Excellence and the Distinguished Clinical Career Award.

In 2008, Cindy and David Leffell made a generous gift in honor of David’s 30th reunion at Yale College. Since then, annually, the David J. Leffell, MD, Prize for Clinical Excellence has recognized a Yale Medicine faculty member who best exemplifies clinical expertise, a commitment to teaching, and the highest standards of care and compassion for patients. A single recipient is selected each year.

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) Global Health Spark Award provides up to $10,000 in seed funding biannually to support innovative global health projects led by YIGH-affiliated faculty. Designed to catalyze new collaborations, pilot studies, and community partnerships, the award helps investigators launch projects with the potential to grow into larger, sustainable initiatives that improve health outcomes around the world. This spring, YIGH awarded funding to five faculty-led projects. Projects proposed by Jofesa Martinez, PhD and Melanie Sion, MD received support through YIGH, while projects led by Ninani Kombo, MD, Ghada Elhadari, MBBCh, PhD, and Alice Miller, JD were funded through a partnership with the Yale Office of International Affairs through the Yale and the World Partnership Fund, an initiative designed to strengthen international collaborations that advance research, education, and practice on issues of global significance.

In a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Yale researchers sought to understand if polypharmacy—when patients take five or more drugs regularly—can be attributed to obesity in individuals aged 65 and older.