Professor of Emergency Medicine; Chair, Emergency Medicine; Scientist, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Internal Medicine
Dr. Venkatesh is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. He is also Scientist at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. He has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, and the Emergency Medicine Foundation to study health system outcomes and efficiency, and he is supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as co-Principal Investigator of the Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL) and for the development of the Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings. He has received over $6 million in grant funding and published over 80 peer-reviewed papers and is senior editor of The Evidence book series. He is national leader within ACEP and SAEM and he serves on expert panels for the National Quality Forum (NQF), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and CMS. His work is also funded by the...
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Clinical Investigator, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE); Co-Director of Yale Emergency Scholars Fellowship, Emergency Medicine
Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, FACEP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, a Clinical Investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, and the Co-Director of the Yale Emergency Scholars (YES) Fellowship. Dr. Gettel aims to advance the understanding of emergency department care transitions in the growing geriatric population through the identification and development of patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measures and then to design, implement, and validate innovative care transition strategies and interventions to improve clinical outcomes. Dr. Gettel was selected as the 2023-2025 National Academy of Medicine / American Board of Emergency Medicine fellow and his work has been funded by the NIH/NIA GEMSSTAR R03 mechanism, the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory, the Alzheimer's Association, the Emergency Medicine...
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Adult Emergency Department
Dr. Sangal is board certified in clinical informatics and emergency medicine. He is interested in quality improvement, clinical operations and process improvement within healthcare. He is specifically interested in how we can leverage technology and the health record to provide optimal care allowing physicians and care teams to spend more time with patients. He completed an Administration Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University and obtained his MBA from the Yale School of Management. As part of fellowship, he maintained leadership roles in multiple projects for the ED. Some included deactivating dozens of low value system alerts saving hundred of thousands of clinician “clicks,” operationalizing ED observation care, driving communication of protocols around ED COVID management, and developing capital budgets and incentive plans. He is the Associate...
Associate Professor Term; Director of Patient Safety and Quality, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Sather’s expertise is in the diagnosis and management of critical illness. Dr. Sather currently serves as the Director of Safety and Quality for the Department. He has been instrumental in the creation of clinical guidelines for the management of critically ill patients within the Yale-New Haven Health System. His research focus is similarly focused on the improvement in critical care delivery, transitions in critical care, and the reduction of diagnostic error. He is Principal Investigator of a Diagnostic Excellence Initiative award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a composite measure of diagnostic performance in Pulmonary Embolism. He was also a project Principal Investigator of the AHRQ funded Patient Safety Learning Laboratory project that applied system engineering and process improvement to inter-hospital transfer care of patients with intracranial hemorrhage....
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,...
Reinier van Tonder, MBChB, RDMS is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Medical Director of the Saint Raphael’s Campus Emergency Department. He is also Co-Director of Emergency Ultrasound for the Saint Raphael’s Campus. Beyond his administrative leadership roles, he is an acclaimed educator in Point of Care Ultrasound, Ultrasound guided Regional Anesthesia and Emergency Airway management. He Co-directs the annual regional New England Point of Care Ultrasound course and the annual International Yale Point of care Ultrasound course. Dr van Tonder teaching was recently recognized with the Yale Emergency Medicine Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr van Tonder completed his Emergency Medicine training at the Mayo clinic and Ultrasound Fellowship training here at Yale University. He is originally from South Africa and resides in Woodbridge.
Doreen Agboh, MD MD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Distinction in Urban Health) BA, Neuroscience and Behavior – Columbia University Residency, Emergency Medicine – University of Chicago (Chief Resident) Specialty: Emergency Medicine
Dr. Wendy W. Sun is an Assistant Medical Director of the York Street Campus Emergency Department at Yale – New Haven Health, Administration Fellow, and Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is passionate about clinical operations, patient quality and safety, physician well-being, and health innovation. Having served as a past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Residents and Medical Students (SAEM RAMS) and the Resident Member on the SAEM Board of Directors, she continues to be invested in the advancement of Emergency Medicine through research, mentorship, education, and advocacy. Dr. Sun earned her undergraduate degree at Columbia University in Biomedical Engineering. She subsequently obtained her Doctor of Medicine from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold...
Instructor of Emergency Medicine; Assistant Medical Director, Yale-New Haven Adult Emergency Department
Dr. Tuffuor currently serves as the Assistant Medical Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. His interest includes operational management along with the improvement of patient experience, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and quality of care with a special focus on underserved populations. Dr. Tuffuor completed an Administration Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine along with an Executive MBA (EMBA) at Yale School of Management. Dr. Tuffuor was born in Ghana and raised in the Bronx, NY. Upon completion of an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Virginia, he served as a Post Baccalaureate IRTA Fellow at National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Following NIH, he served as the Senior HIV Tester Counselor/Clinical Data...
Ryan Koski Vacirca, MD, MPH Resident Physician, Yale Emergency Scholars Program MD – Wake Forest School of Medicine MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Specialty: Emergency Medicine