Dr. Karl Insogna presented Dr. Levita Y. Robinson with the Raymond P. Wong Award at Medical Grand Rounds on January 11, 2018. The Wong award was established in 2009 and honors the legacy of Raymond Wong, MD, an internist who practiced for 26 years at the Hill Health Center in New Haven. Candidates for the award must be graduates of the Yale Internal Medicine, Primary Care, or Medicine/Pediatric residency programs. The award provides recipients a $30,000 annual stipend to encourage careers in urban primary care; awardees make a three-year commitment to the program. The award is generously underwritten by Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale New Haven Hospital Medical Board, and Yale University’s Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Robinson, who received her MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2012 and then completed her internship and residency training at Yale New Haven, is the third recipient of the Wong Fellowship, following Drs. Saria Hassan and Patrick Blue McMillan Campbell Kelly.
"I am truly honored to be selected as this year's Ray Wong Fellow and hope to build on a tradition of Yale graduates committing to the underserved," Dr. Robinson said, after the Grand Rounds presentation. " As we push forward into 2018 and this new era of medicine, I hope to continue to practice the art of medicine, but also - through some of our population health initiatives - to continue our transition to a more proactive approach in how we are managing our patients with chronic illnesses, perhaps even being able to expand some of what we're doing as a community health center to the New Haven population as a whole. I look forward to fine tuning this over the next few years and sharing our progress in the near future."
" As we push forward into 2018 and this new era of medicine, I hope to continue to practice the art of medicine, but also - through some of our population health initiatives - to continue our transition to a more proactive approach in how we are managing our patients with chronic illnesses, perhaps even being able to expand some of what we're doing as a community health center to the New Haven population as a whole."
Dr. Levita Robinson
“We continue to be exceptionally fortunate with our Wong Fellows,” Dr. Insogna noted, “and it has been gratifying to watch the program grow and change to reflect the Fellows’ skills and interests. In Dr. Robinson’s case, her commitment to the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center patient population has been impressive, and her work on the Patient Transformation Network (PTN) and Patient Centered Medical Home Plus Initiative is inspirational. We’re excited to see what her contributions will be over the next three years.”