Professor of Emergency Medicine; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and Development, Emergency Medicine; Co-Chair, Chest Pain Center
Basmah Safdar, M.D. is an internationally recognized scholar in sex and gender-specific research with a focus on microvascular health - in the heart, brain and now COVID-19. Funded by a diverse grant portfolio (NIH, CDC, Foundations and Investigator Initiated Industry awards) she has successfully conducted numerous clinical trials and translational research in emergency settings. She leads the Yale CMD (coronary microvascular dysfunction) Registry that intersects with a multi-disciplinary clinical program addressing the systemic nature of microvascular dysfunction including in COVID-19.Dr. Safdar co-chaired the 2014, Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on “Sex and Gender Specific Research – Investigate, Understand and Translate how Gender Affects Patient Outcomes” leading the advocacy to address disparities in patient care. She teaches and speaks...
Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Medicine Core Addiction
Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS is the Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine and was the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine (2009-2021) and Physician-in Chief of Emergency Services at Yale New Haven Hospital EDs with an annual census of approximately 180,000 patients. She is also Professor in the School of Public Health in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and Professor of Internal Medicine, Core Faculty in Addiction) and is boarded in emergency and addiction medicine. Internationally known for her work in alcohol and other substance use disorders (SUDs) as well as her research on gender variations in women with ischemic heart disease, Dr. D’Onofrio has extensive experience as a leader, researcher, mentor and educator. Her work (JAMA, 2015) demonstrating that ED-initiated buprenorphine increases...
Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics and of Medicine (Endocrinology); Co-Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS); Director, Yale Data Coordinating Center; Professor, Biostatistics
Jim is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at YMS. As a biostatistician at Yale since 2002 he has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles with a diverse group of Yale investigators. Dr. Dziura also serves as the Deputy Director of both the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) and the Yale Data Coordinating Center (YDCC) in the Yale School of Public Health. He has been active in training young investigators, both individually (as a mentor and statistical resource for K-awardees, post-doctoral fellows, residents and Master’s students) and in the classroom (where he has developed a graduate-level course and several workshops on biostatistics in clinical research). His primary research interests are in the coordination of multicenter clinical trials. Over the past ten years he has overseen data coordinating and biostatistical efforts for several trials. Notably, he served as the PI of the...
Associate Professor Adjunct of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Emergency Medicine
Andrew Taylor MD, MHS is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Emergency Medicine, and Biostatistics at Yale, where he founded and leads the Yale Interdisciplinary AI & Medicine Lab (Y-IAML). Y-IAML is a pioneering collaborative research group dedicated to advancing the field of AI in Medicine through a unique cross-disciplinary approach focused on harmoniously blending AI with healthcare delivery. Y-IAML brings together experts in design, cognitive science, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, implementation science, ethics/philosophy, and decision theory to develop innovative AI solutions that are not only technically robust but also ethically informed and practically implementable. By bridging the gap between diverse fields of study, Dr. Taylor and his team aim to create AI technologies that are deeply attuned to the complexities of healthcare,...
Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Dr. Wang is Associate Professor of Biostatistics and of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale University. Her research focuses on combining genetics, genomics, immunology, and statistical modeling to answer biologically important questions in genetic epidemiological studies. Dr. Wang's statistical expertise lies in longitudinal data analysis, varying coefficient models, mixed effects models, kernel machine methods, mediation analysis, machine learning methods, and network analysis. She develops statistically innovative methods and computationally efficient tools in large-scale genetic and genomic studies to identify genetic susceptibility variants and advance the understanding of the etiology of complex diseases including breast cancer, alcohol and drug abuse, asthma, autism, obesity, lung and cardiovascular diseases. Current studies include using next-generation sequencing...
Cristiana Baloescu graduated from the Yale Emergency Medicine Residency Program in 2017. She completed medical school at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in 2013. During residency, she conducted research in disaster preparedness, applications of machine learning in point-of-care ultrasound interpretation, and served as the resident director of medical student education. After graduating from residency, she pursued further training in point-of-care ultrasound fellowship, as well as a Masters degree in public health at Yale. Her goal is to advance the field of point-of-care ultrasound, establish programs in developing countries. She is from Bucharest, Romania, and attended Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. An avid international travel, she met her husband, also a physician-scientist, during an academic exchange program in Germany.
Anirudh Goyal is a dedicated researcher and public health professional with a diverse background in dentistry and public health. He holds a Master of Public Health from the University of New Haven and a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, India. Anirudh's research interests span various topics, including the association between dating app use and body image, unhealthy weight control behaviors among sexual minority men, Coronary Microvascular dysfunction, Tobacco use cessation. He has presented his work at prestigious conferences such as the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting and the FDI World Dental Congress.
Allison is a clinical research professional with over five years of experience in managing clinical trials across various stages, from clinical trial recruitment to study close-out. She has expertise in neurology, oncology, and medical devices, having contributed to bringing multiple medical devices to FDA approval and guiding them to market. Allison holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Central Connecticut State University. Outside of work, she is an avid traveler and culinary enthusiast, always seeking new destinations to explore or recipes to try.
Kim recently graduated from the University of Connecticut with bachelor's degrees in Biological Sciences and Psychological Sciences. Her research background includes work in neuroscience with animal models at UConn, as well as clinical research focusing on emergency medicine and chronic pain & obesity at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Kim plans to spend a few gap years gaining additional clinical research experience before applying to medical school. She is particularly interested in neuroscience and emergency medicine research.
Dr. Afsheen Nasir is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Yale University with enriched interests in health disparities related to gender, race, and socioeconomic status in cardiac and aortic diseases. As a co-investigator for Women's Health Research at Yale, she has led pilot projects examining sex-based disparities in elective and emergent aortic surgery outcomes along with the underlying causes, including gendered patterns of surveillance using big data from Yale Imaging Centers. Her curiosity extends to the role of pregnancy and female reproductive hormones in the progression of cardiac diseases. Dr. Nasir’s work has been showcased at many conferences including American Heart Association, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society, and Women in Thoracic Surgery meeting. She also serves as a peer-reviewer for scientific journals. Her work...
Ivan has a Masters of Science in Law and brings a wealth of experience with his prior role as a full time ED technician as well as certified Emergency Medical Technician (National, Florida, Connecticut). In addition to pursuing research, Ivan likes to volunteer and give back to the community.
Arda Yigitkanli holds a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology with an interest in pursuing emergency medicine upon matriculating into medical school. He has prior experience working as a clinical coordinator for the Emory HOPE Vaccine Clinic and has previously created and patented a cardiovascular retrieval device which operates as a safety net for those with cardiac devices implanted within their body such as pacemakers. In addition to his clinical interests, Arda volunteers with outreach groups and clinics around New Haven that target underrepresented groups in healthcare.