Sharon Anoush Chekijian, MD, MPH

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She served as the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine from 2007-2024. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP post-graduate training program which admitted its 1^st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

At Yale School of Medicine she serves on the Executive Admissions Committee, the Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee and the Executive Committee of the Status of Women in Medicine.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems' development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA).

In 2020, Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia. The first class was accepted in 2023. In July of 2025 she was appointed founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine at the National Institute of Health of the Republic of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. She is the host of Yale Global Health Insights Podcast that seeks to understand the personal drive behind the people that are at the forefront of Global Health at Yale. (https://open.spotify.com/show/23HhjgsScKUqUqXsYGbcOK?si=p1Ig9SNrRMqQnA07869x6g). Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.