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Creed House

Creed House is named for Dr. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed (1833-1900). Continue reading for information about the head of Creed House, its longitudinal coaches, student house representatives, and affiliates.

Head of Advisory House

  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Clerkship; Head of Advisory House, Creed House, Office of Student Affairs

    Karen Jubanyik, MD is Associate Professor, Clinician-Educator Track, in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed residency training in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine as well as a fellowship in Women's Health, at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2000, she was hired as faculty for the Department of Emergency Medicine, Education Division, and served multiple roles, including Associate Residency Director, Interim Residency Director and Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director. In 2008, she was named as one of four Academic Advisors in the Office of Student Affairs, advising medical students in each class of throughout their medical school career. As a co-course Director, she teaches a first-year medical school course, Professional Ethics and Responsibility. She has received multiple teaching prizes at...

Longitudinal Coaches

  • Longitudinal Coach

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Psychiatric Emergency Room, VA Connecticut Healthcare System

    Dr. Fuehrlein graduated from the M.D. Ph.D. program at the University of Florida in 2008, adult psychiatry residency program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2012 and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University in 2013.  He is currently an Associate Professor and the director of the psychiatric emergency room at the VA Connecticut. Dr. Fuehrlein has a strong interest in medical student and resident education, particularly surrounding addiction psychiatry and serves on multiple local and national committees in this role.  In 2017 he was awarded the Irma Bland award for excellency in psychiatry resident education through the APA.  In 2018 he was awarded the Clerkship Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Medical StudentEducator and Role Model.  He is also passionate about emergency psychiatry and substance use disorders and has presented and...
  • Longitudinal Coach

    Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology); Fellowship Director, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program; Director, Solid Tumor Program, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program; Children's Oncology Group Site PI, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Program

    Dr Farzana Pashankar is an accomplished pediatric hematologist oncologist, specializing in care of children with sickle cell disease and solid tumors. She is an international expert in germ cell tumors and rare tumors. Her research has focused on clinical trial development through Children's Oncology Group, and she is the Chair and Vice Chair of international trials in germ cell tumors. Dr Pashankar is Director of Pediatric Solid Tumor Program, Disease Aligned Research Team Leader for Pediatrics at Smilow Cancer Center and Director of the Pediatric Hematology Oncology Fellowship Program. Dr Pashankar received her MBBS and MD from University of Pune, India. She trained in United Kingdom, receiving an MRCP. She subsequently did a residency at University of Iowa and fellowship at British Columbia Children's Hospital, before joining Yale in 2005.
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Pediatric Rheumatology)

    Dr. Ian Ferguson obtained his medical degree from New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ) and completed his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. Dr. Ferguson is board certified in pediatrics and recently completed his subspecialty training in Pediatric Rheumatology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 2015. His research interests are related to the clinical and immunobiologic picture in the development of autoimmunity and its regression over time. Previous work has centered around the T cell and how it may function in the innate immune system. His first priority is providing excellent clinical care and using that experience to guide research endeavors.
  • Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences; Chief, Section of Family Planning ; Program Director, Complex Family Planning Fellowship

    Tessa Madden, MD, MPH is Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine where she is also the Section Chief for Family Planning. Previously, she was at Washington University in St. Louis for more than 15 years where she was a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Family Planning Division Director, and the Program Director of the Complex Family Planning Fellowship. She completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University in New York City and her Family Planning Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University. During fellowship, she received her MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is active in patient care, clinical research, and education. Dr. Madden’s research interests are focused on contraceptive care including interventions to improve patient access to the full range of...

PA Advisor

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Physician Associate Program); Director of Clinical Skills Education, Physician Associate Program; Associate Director of Didactic Education, Physician Associate Program

    Tara Herbert joined the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program faculty in 2022 as director of clinical skills education.  Tara has over 25 years of clinical experience as a physician assistant. She currently works clinically on the hospitalist service at Yale New Haven Hospital where she has been for 15 years. Education & Training MS       Pace University, Physician Assistant Studies (2019) PA        Yale University School of Medicine, Physician Associate Program    (1996) BS        Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1991)Honors & Awards2019    APP Clinical Excellence Award            APP Leadership Committee, YNHH

Student House Representatives

Community Advisors

  • Steve Werlin

    Executive Director

    Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen

YSM Affiliates

Alumni Affiliates

Name
Degree
Specialty
Larry Collins
'90 Phys. Assoc. Cert.
Orthopaedics / Education
Abiola Femi-Abodunde
'17 M.D.
Radiology-Women's Imaging
Marina Gaeta Gazzola
'22 M.D.
Emergency Medicine
Jose Guillem
'83 M.D., '87 M.P.H.
Colorectal Surgery
Ravi Gupta
'17 M.D.
Internal Medicine
Rabeea Khan
'15 M.D.
Preventive Medicine/Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Denise Kung
'91 M.D.
Pediatrics-General
Marc Lippman
'68 M.D.
Internal Medicine, Oncology
Robert Mitchell
'77 M.D.
Urology
Christian Rathke
'00 MMSc
Primary Care
Susan Rushing
'05 M.D.
Psychiatry
David N. Smith
M.D.
Cardiology
James Stoller
'79 M.D.
Pulmonary/Critical Care
Gloria Sue
'14 M.D.
Plastic Surgery
Martin Teicher
'81 M.D.
Psychiatry
Jilda Vargus-Adams
'95 M.D.
PM&R and Pediatrics
Daniel Walsh
'05 MMSc
Emergency Medicine
Eric Wells
'82 M.D.
Pediatrics
Joanna Katzman
90 M.D.
Neurology