The Academic Hospitalists provide care for patients hospitalized on General Medical, Step-Down ICU, and observation units at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH), a 1,541-bed two-campus facility located within walking distance of the university campus.
The team’s work spans a variety of areas, including cost awareness among medical professionals, understanding variation in costs at the hospital-level, optimizing care escalations for deteriorating patients, and enhancing care transitions.Research
Research with the section is focused on selected interrelated areas at the core of general internal medicine utilizing the principles and methods of clinical epidemiology and health services research.
The faculty applies these principles and methods to five key conditions within general medicine:
- Addiction
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular health
- Cerebrovascular wellness
- HIV
Within these five areas, the focus is narrowed into these cross-disciplinary subspecialities:
- Research methods and policy
- HIV prevention and HIV-related conditions
- Occupational and environmental medicine
- Substance use disorder
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancer
- Population health and well-being
- Health justice
- Women’s health
- Health care utilization and outcomes
- Health disparities
- Medical education
- Medicine, religion, and spirituality
- Medical Humanities
- Global health
- Health policy
This work includes epidemiological studies, observational studies, randomized clinical trials, case control studies, studies using large databases, qualitative research, mixed methods, and implementation science.
Faculty have also written several papers in the area of health care policy and have provided national leadership on topics such as ethical considerations in research and international health, the provision of addiction services, conflict of interest in research, and the care of underserved populations.
Several faculty are principal investigators and/or co-investigators in peer-reviewed research funded through federal and private agencies. In addition, a number of faculty hold federal or foundation-supported career awards to support their work.
Along with their leadership roles in research activities related to the National Clinical Scholars Program, section faculty have major leadership roles in research activities of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, the Yale Investigative Medicine Program, and the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Details of the research activities of the section can be found at the web sites of the programs listed above and on the web pages of individual faculty.
Research Programs
Yale Academic Hospitalist Program Clinical Epidemiology Research Center The Clinical Epidemiology Research Center (CERC) at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System located in West Haven, is a collaboration between VA Cooperative Studies Program, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, and the Yale University School of Medicine.Cancer Outcomes, Public Policy, and Effectiveness Research (COPPER) The mission of the COPPER Center at Yale is to improve cancer care and to decrease the burden of cancer on individual patients as well as society.Yale Drug use, Addiction, and HIV Research Scholars (DAHRS) Program The aim of the program is to prepare investigators for careers focusing on improving medical outcomes for patients with, and at risk for drug abuse, addiction, and HIV, by integrating prevention and treatment in general medical settings including emergency departments and primary care, and HIV, adolescent, and women’s health clinics.Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) The Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale University has two overarching goals. The first goal is to develop and disseminate evidence-based models to narrow health and healthcare inequity gaps. The second goal is to provide research support infrastructure for Yale faculty and affiliated community-based organizations.Yale Occupational and Environmental Health Program The Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program (YOEMP) is dedicated to preventing occupational and environmental illness and injury through patient care, consultative activities, training, and research.Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-Morbidities and Education (PRIME) Center PRIME aims to improve our understanding of the complex interactions between pain and associated chronic disease and behavioral health factors and to develop and implement effective interventions that can reduce pain, its negative impacts on emotional and physical functioning, and overall disease burden by employing principles of medical informatics, behavioral science, and health services research, and to improve women Veterans' health.play2Prevent Lab The p2P Lab focuses on the use of “play,” in the form of videogame play, for the purposes of health promotion, risk reduction, social good, and educational interventions. We harness videogame technology to create engaging and effective methods to convey information and teach skills that lead to behavior change, translating to healthier and safer lives.Yale Program in Addiction Medicine The goal of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is to expand access to and improve the effectiveness of prevention and treatment services for substance use. We focus on research, education, prevention, and treatment.Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics The Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine provides multidisciplinary leadership regarding the ethical and social aspects of health care and medical research.Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality, & Religion The Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality, & Religion is founded upon the belief that holistic healing concerns both the wellness of the body and the spirit. We seek to understand the implications of religious practice, communal support, and intrinsic belief on health and wellness.Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) Program The RAMS Program is intended to make important contributions to the development of the next generation of addiction physician researchers in order to provide better care for patients with and at risk for substance use disorders.Transitions Clinic Network The Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) is a national network of medical homes for individuals with chronic diseases recently released from incarceration.Yale University-Mayo Clinic CERSI - Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation The Yale University-Mayo Clinic Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSI) is a joint effort between Yale University, Mayo Clinic, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create infrastructure for regulatory science knowledge generation, conduct research to address key gaps in knowledge, and develop tools to support regulatory decision-making and the overall mission of FDA.Veterans Aging Cohort Study The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) is a prospective, observational cohort study of HIV- positive and an age/race/site matched control group of HIV- negative veterans in care in the United States. The study's aim is to understand the role of comorbid medical and psychiatric disease in determining clinical outcomes in HIV infection.