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Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD, MPH

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Appointments

General Internal Medicine
Primary

Titles

Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine

About

Titles

Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

Clerkship Director, Internal Medicine

Biography

Dr. Angela Kang-Giaimo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine where she received her MD and MPH degrees. She completed her residency training at the Yale Internal Medicine Primary Care Program and stayed on as a Chief Resident. She then joined the teaching faculty of the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2018-2021.

She rejoined the Yale Faculty as Instructor in the Department of General Internal Medicine and member of the Program in Hospital Medicine in 2021. She served as Associate Clerkship Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship from July 2022-July 2023. She is currently the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director.

Her academic interests include residency career coaching and student professional identity formation, point of care ultrasound, and the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. She is the co-founder of an NGO in the Dominican Republic that works to improve community health and build local capacity through a community health workers and chronic disease program. She also currently serves as co-medical director of the Yale medical student run HAVEN Free Clinic.

Appointments

  • General Internal Medicine

    Assistant Professor
    Primary

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Chief Resident
Yale School of Medicine (2018)
Resident
Yale New Haven Hospital (2017)
Intern
Yale New Haven Hospital (2015)
MD
Tufts University School of Medicine (2014)
MPH
Tufts University School of Medicine (2014)
Non Degree Program
Bryn Mawr College, Pre-Medical Sciences (2009)
BA
Tufts University, International Relations (2008)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Angela Kang-Giaimo's published research.

Publications

2020

2019

Academic Achievements and Community Involvement

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    Committee Member

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    Member

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    Teacher of the Year

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    Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award

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    Teacher of the Year

Clinical Care

Overview

Angela Kang-Giaimo, MD, MPH, is an internal medicine specialist, focusing on hypertensive urgency, emergency department management, and internal medicine teaching and consultation. She is the clerkship director of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Kang-Giaimo’s research examines patient care during emergency situations, with an emphasis on hypertensive urgency (a sudden and severe increase in blood pressure). Her work explores ways to connect emergency department treatments with primary care physicians to ensure patients receive consistent and effective care.

A recipient of numerous awards, including multiple Teacher of the Year awards, the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, the Massachusetts Medical Society Scholars Program Award, the John T. Harrington Award for Humanity, and the Commencement Committee Award, Dr. Kang-Giaimo is an assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

Clinical Specialties

General Internal Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2017

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