About
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine)
Associate Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine; Director, Program in Hospital Medicine, General Internal Medicine; Co-Firm Chief, Hospital Medicine Firm, General Internal Medicine; Faculty Director, Hospital Medicine Elective Rotation, Residency Programs; Program Director, Adult Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program, General Internal MedicineBiography
Chris is a former Yale intern, resident, and chief resident who is a career Hospitalist and medical educator. Chris was the first "academic" Hospitalist hired by the School of Medicine in 2010. He is active on a local and national level in medical education and Hospital Medicine. At present, he divides his time between supervision of medical trainees on teaching services, providing inpatient medical care on the NEMG Hospitalist service, directing the Program of Hospital Medicine in the section of General Internal Medicine, and fulfilling important administrative and educational roles as a co-Firm Chief of the Hospital Medicine inpatient medical Firm and Program Director of YSM's new Adult Hospital Medicine Fellowship .
Appointments
General Internal Medicine
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- General Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Program in Hospital Medicine
Education & Training
- Certificate in Physician Leadership
- American College of Physicians and American Association for Physician Leadership (2018)
- Faculty Development in Clinical Teaching
- Yale School of Medicine (2017)
- Executive Education: Emerging Leaders Program
- Yale University (2015)
- Medical Education Fellowship
- Yale School of Medicine (2012)
- Chief Resident
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2006)
- Resident
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2005)
- Intern
- Yale New Haven Hospital (2003)
- MD
- Ohio State University College of Medicine (2002)
- BA
- Rice University (1997)
Board Certifications
Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2015
Internal Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Internal Medicine
- Latest Certification Date
- 2015
- Original Certification Date
- 2005
Research
Overview
- Area of expertise: educational curriculum development. Designed and implemented inpatient didactic curriculum for Traditional Internal Medicine Residency training program. Designed and implemented hospital medicine elective curriculum for the Yale Internal Medicine Residency training programs.
- Area of expertise: inpatient clinical deterioration. Experience locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally presenting concepts and experience with quality and process improvement regarding inpatient clinical deterioration. Medical Director of Yale-New Haven Hospital rapid response team (RRT) for 4 years. First author, peer-reviewed publication “Deterioration to Door Time”: An Exploratory Analysis of Delays in Escalation of Care for Hospitalized Patients. Senior author, peer-reviewed review publication “Sepsis: An Update in Management”. Senior author, peer-reviewed publication "Using System Inflammatory Response Syndrome as an
Easy-to-Implement, Sustainable, and Automated Tool for All-Cause Deterioration Among Medical Inpatients." - Area of expertise: clinical case writing. Experience locally, regionally, and nationally presenting concepts of writing and mentoring abstract and publication submissions. First author, peer-reviewed "Why and how to prepare, write and submit clinical cases." Multiple individual clinical case peer-reviewed publications; mentorship of many student, resident, and fellow peer-reviewed publications; mentorship of student and resident national and regional meeting poster presentations. Creator and former physician Editor, ACP Hospitalist clinical vignette section, “The Brief Case”.
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- March 15, 2024
Announcing the New Residents in the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program!
- March 15, 2024
Announcing the Incoming Residents in the Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program!
- February 23, 2024
Department of Internal Medicine Promotions and Appointments (February 2024)
- June 20, 2023
18 Faculty Selected as Inaugural Longitudinal Coaches for MD Students