Dear Colleagues,

Although it just ended a few days ago, summer, with images of times with family and friends during July and August on the beach, hiking, and travelling locally and globally - seems like it was in the distant past. Fortunately summer-like weather has persisted although the leaves have definitely started to turn.

This virtual time warp is likely the result of the rapid pace of our academic lives that re-emerged after Labor Day. Our new residents and fellows have settled in and their clinical and research activities have ramped up. Our faculty meetings and conferences have reemerged on our calendars. Our GIM grand rounds covers core topics in GIM clinical practice such as tick-borne disease, cancer genetic testing, systemic therapy for psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, and the management of systemic sclerosis. Thanks to Lisa Puglisi and Matthew Ellman for organizing a great series! Our Thursday noon RIP and Educational Strategies & Faculty Development series included, among other things, a presentation by David Rosenthal about his upcoming film on the state of primary care. Thank you to Jeanette Tetrault and Cary Gross for organizing our Thursday noon sessions.

The fall is also the traditional time of our annual Inginia Genao Lectureship where we celebrate her time with us by having a visiting lecturer join us for a day, meet with trainees and faculty, and present the lecture during our noon conference. This year, the fourth speaker, Dr. Susana Morales, gave a wonderful presentation entitled, “Towards Health Equity.” A great discussion followed that included many of our faculty and our new Chair, Wolfram Goessling. Dr. Morales left us energized to vigorously pursue our important work in this critical area. Of course, it was great to see Inginia and her family and we look forward to continuing this annual fall tradition!

The new academic year also is a wonderful opportunity to welcome newly appointed faculty to Yale GIM. Each of these individuals, some of whom have been at Yale in other positions (e.g.: fellows, instructors), before joining the full-time and ladder track faculty, represent the best of our profession and are already making wonderful contributions to our core missions of patient care, education, research, and community wellbeing. Please see "welcome new faculty & staff" for a complete list. Welcome aboard!

As always, this month’s edition of Yale GIM News is teeming with exciting news of the many accomplishments of our faculty. Read on!

Another fall tradition of Yale GIM is our annual “GIM Day at the Yale Bowl” – this year featured the Bulldog’s Ivy League opener vs. Cornell’s “Big Red Bears!” We had 100+ staff, faculty, trainees and their families for what turned out to be a beautiful summer-like day and a tremendous 41-24 Yale victory! It was great seeing everyone there and meeting everyone’s families and friends.

As September turns to October, we will no doubt see the end of this beautiful warm (too warm, I’d say) weather and a return to autumn in New England. Enjoy it, because the snow is only a couple of months away!

Patrick

Patrick G. O'Connor, MD, MPH

Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine

Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine

Head of Advisory House, Yan House

Yale School of Medicine

Alicia Bolden, DMSc, MPH, PA-C – assistant professor adjunct

Cara Borelli, DO – assistant professor

Alissa Chen, MD, MPH - instructor

Alyssa Cheng, DO – clinical associate

Andrew Cox, MD – assistant professor

Jennifer Duperval, MS, PA-C – assistant professor adjunct

David Fink, PhD – assistant professor

Sami Hamdan, MD, MPH – assistant professor

Gordon Hill, MD – assistant professor adjunct

Marielle Jensen-Battaglia, DPT, PhD - postdoctoral associate

Natalia Kunst, PhD – assistant professor adjunct

Haidong Lu, PhD – assistant professor

Mario Ochoa-Prieto, MO – assistant clinical professor

Christine Ramsey, PhD – associate research scientist

Rita Rienzo, MMSC, PA-C - instructor

Andrea Roberts, MD – assistant professor

Shelby Rosario, MD – assistant professor

Richard Smith, MD – assistant professor

Minhee Sung, MD – assistant professor

Ritchie Verma, MD - instructor

Nate Wood, MD – assistant professor

Message from Benjamin Mba, MBBS

The following meetings took place in September. In case you missed them, meetings that have been recorded can be viewed as indicated below.

Yale General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds - Please go to: https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/genmed/news/grand-rounds/

Note: The logins for the Grand Rounds have been upgraded to ensure better security for Yale networks.

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2. Other emails from approved domains should log in using the non-Yale email button. You will be prompted to set up a username and password.

3. Personal emails will no longer be allowed access to videos.

Yale General Internal Medicine Noon Meetings - can be viewed here.

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Kristen Joy Cushing Memorial Scholarship Fund. This scholarship was created in memory of Cushing, who passed away in October 2021.

Donations in memory of Laura Whitman can be made to the Closer to Free Fund for Smilow Hospital.

GIM Newsletters from May 2023 to June 2025 can be found here.