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The Asthma Program

The Asthma Program provides world-class, personalized care to patients across the spectrum of asthma, from mild disease to difficult-to-control asthma. In addition to evaluating the “whole patient” by optimizing conventional therapies and evaluating co-morbidities, the asthma program provides opportunities for patients—especially those for whom conventional controllers have been unsuccessful—to participate in research aimed at defining the next generation of asthma therapies.

Over the last 20 years, the asthma program has conducted many of the clinical trials that led to the availability of biologic therapies for both asthma and COPD and changed the lives of patients.

Faculty

  • Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine ); Director, Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease (YCAAD), Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Director, Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Yale New Haven Hospital, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

    After graduating from Tufts University and the George Washington School of Medicine, Dr. Geoffrey Chupp completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine. In 1997 Dr. Chupp came to Yale in 1997 and developed the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease. This multifaceted program is a multidisciplinary clinical program that focuses on the care of patients with severe as and other complicated airways diseases, a center for translational research in airways disease, and a center where patients can participate in cutting edge industry sponsored research trials. The success of YCAAD has recently been realized with the publications on novel observations on chitinases in patients with asthma recruited from this multidisciplinary center.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)

    After graduating from residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, Dr. Clark came to New Haven to complete his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at Yale.  After fellowship he has remained at Yale as junior faculty .  His chief interest includes the care of severe and difficult to control asthma through the Yale Center for Asthma and Airway Disease.  His work in YCAAD involves identification of barriers to optimal asthma care for patients and, when appropriate, application of novel biologic therapies for severe asthma.  He also has an interest in pulmonary physiology and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) as well as teaching pulmonary physiology to fellows.  His critical care interests include ventilator management and the heart lung interactions that complicate ICU care.
  • Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Associate Director, MD/PHD Program; Director, Newington VA Pulmonary Clinic, Medicine, VA Connecticut Health System

  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director Precision Pulmonary Medicine (P2MED), Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

  • Assistant Professor; Associate Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Co-Associate Course Director, Homeostasis Course, Internal Medicine

    Shannon Kay was born in Long Island and raised in New York City. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College, and completed medical school at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. She then completed internship, residency, and Chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before coming to Yale as a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow in 2019.
  • Instructor

    After graduating from Boston College and University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Gabriella Wilson completed a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Pulmonary, Critical care, and Sleep medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. As a Clinical Instructor, Dr. Wilson provides care for patients with severe asthma and other complicated airways diseases at the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease in the Winchester Center for Lung Disease, and cares for critically ill patients in the Yale New Haven-Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Wilson’s research focuses on defining eosinophil heterogeneity in asthma through translational research methods.
  • Assistant Professor

    Dr. Zaeh is a Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine physician at Yale School of Medicine. Her clinical practice includes general pulmonary conditions, asthma and obstructive lung disease, and she serves as an attending physician in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of Yale New Haven Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Zaeh conducts clinical research related to implementation science and obstructive lung disease. Dr. Zaeh completed her residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she also served as an Assistant Chief of Service of the Osler Medical Residency.
  • Instructor

    Jana was born in Brooklyn, NY. As an undergraduate, she attended Yale University where she majored in music. She attended medical school at Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale. Outside of medicine, Jana enjoys playing piano, crossword puzzles and hiking with her German Shepherd, Jacob.