News
Discoveries & Impact highlights select scientific discoveries per section across the Department of Internal Medicine...
Welcome New Staff, Postdocs & Faculty (June 2022)
The Department of Internal Medicine’s Sections of Nephrology and Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine have launched a new combined fellowship program.
The Janeway Society was formed in 2021 by Keith Choate, MD, PhD, associate dean for physician-scientist development to create infrastructure and oversight for career development and to shorten the time to independence at Yale.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Internal Medicine staff were celebrated in the department’s Town Hall meeting.
Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine have found that electronic health record alerts can help improve the quality of care for outpatients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
Nihar R. Desai, MD, discusses data from the GALACTIC-HF study.
(WTNH) – In today’s health headlines, we are comparing how the U.S. has faired against the virus versus other countries. Plus, a COVID outbreak in North Korea raises concerns for the U.S.
Discoveries & Impact (May 2022)
Connecticut Magazine’s 2022 'Top Doctors' list includes more than 200 Yale Medicine physicians who were selected by their peers as the best in their fields.
“Computer” popups developed at Yale are improving medical care for patients. Results from a new story show that pop-up alerts embedded into the electronic health records of certain heart failure patients allowed physicians to prescribe more guideline directed medications.
Welcome New Members of the Department of Internal Medicine (April 2022)
There are numerous risk factors that can eventually lead to heart failure.
Physicians treating patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) were more likely to prescribe an added drug class, out of the four guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) classes, when they were prompted by an alert in a patient's electronic health record (EHR).
Meet Clinical Fellow Megan Baker, MD
After 50+ years of service in medicine, Fred Wright, MD, professor of medicine (nephrology) and of cellular and molecular physiology, has retired.
A personalized alert triggered via the electronic health record during office visits resulted in more frequent prescription of guideline-directed medical therapies for patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction.
Data from PROMPT-HF show clinicians are more likely to add 1 of 4 topline drug classes to a patient's HFrEF regimen when alerted on the opportunity.
F. Perry Wilson, MD, shares good news as families plan spring travel.