Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MA Div, published his op-ed, “Religious exemptions to vaccines is bad religion,” in the New Haven Register in August.
Inginia Genao, MD, published the op-ed, “It’s time to abolish the MCAT,” in Medpage Today’s KevinMD.com.
Shalin Kothari, MD, presented his work, “Effects of Proteasome Inhibitors in the Anti-Tumor Activity of Venetoclax in Mantle Cell Lymphoma Pre-clinical Models” at the Cell Death 2019 Conference at Cold Spring Laboratory in August.
Matthew Ellman, MD, and Julie Rosenbaum, MD, wrote an op-ed entitled, “Physicians Should Play a New Role in Reducing Gun Violence,” for The Health Care Blog.
Don Nguyen, PhD, has been appointed as the inaugural Assistant Cancer Center Director for Research Development. In his new role for Yale Cancer Center (YCC), Nguyen will lead intramural funding programs, identify new funding opportunities to broaden the funding support of our membership, and craft strategies to promote new collaborations and areas of investigations within YCC.
Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, was named to the Sabin Vaccine Institute Board of Trustees in August. Omer also co-authored, “Mandate vaccination with care,” in Nature.
Tyra Pendergrass, Kimberly Hieftje, and Lynn Fiellin authored the book chapter, “Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life for African Adolescents: The Role of Digital and Mobile Games,” part of the International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life book series.
Lisa Sanders, MD, debuted her new Netflix show and book, “Diagnosis” in August.
Sandra Springer, MD, was recently named the contact principal investigator for a national, multisite trial from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) entitled, “Coordinated medical treatment of opioid use disorder and infectious disease.” This study will evaluate a new model of care of treating opioid use disorder with long-acting injectable buprenorphine with infectious disease treatment in hospital settings to reduce opioid use and improve treatment of infections related to injection drug use.
Emily Wang, MD, delivered the keynote address at the Class of 2023’s White Coat Ceremony in August. She encouraged students to think critically about the role a physician can play in patients’ lives. Wang was also recently named principal investigator for research supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The purpose of the research is to improve opioid addiction treatment in criminal justice settings. The grant, totaling more than $11 million, supports the five-year project period.
To see the list of publications from August 2019, review Publications.