The goal of the PASS Program is to facilitate peer-to-peer mentoring in which senior students pass down program specific (i.e. based on PhD department or clinical interest) information to junior students.
Additionally, the PASS Program aims to provide junior students with an easily accessible academic support system that remains pertinent as they progress through different stages of training, but is also flexible and adaptable to accommodate those who have changed their PhD departments or clinical interests.
For more information, please contact PASS Coordinators Zach Kloos, Jeffrey Duncan-Lowey, Kerrie Greene, Ruchi Gupta, or Elizabeth Woo.
Fall meeting:
This event will be held in a “speed dating” format. Student Mentor(s) representing different departments will be seated at different tables, and junior students will rotate through tables associated with departments they are potentially interested in joining. In addition to meeting their Student Mentor(s), the Mentees will learn:
Spring meeting:
This event will also be held in a “speed dating” format but in a more casual setting. This event will allow Mentors to “check-in” with their Mentees, as well as allow junior students who have changed departments to connect with a new Mentor.
Mentor training dinner:
This mandatory training session will occur once a year prior to the fall meeting. It will cover topics including:
Academic department: Neuroscience
Research interests: Systems neuroscience, reward learning, cortical plasticity, substance use disorders
Clinical interests: Psychiatry, substance use disorders
Other interests: Baking, snuggling my two cats, thrift shopping/fashion, music, traveling, self-care, antiracism and DEI efforts, mentorship, Wednesday Evening Clinic, leadership/community building.
Academic Department: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Medical Image Processing, Deep Learning, AI in Healthcare, Clinical Decision Support
Clinical Interests: Undecided
Other Interests: Cooking, Learning languages, Haven Free Clinic, Crocheting, Reading, Horror Movies, Paleontology and Archaeology, Traditional Chinese Art Forms
Academic Department: InterdepartmentalNeuroscience
Academic Interests: psychedelics, synaptic physiology, systems neuroscience
Clinical Interests: interventional psychiatry, rapid-acting antidepressants, personalized medicine
Other Interests: backpacking, fermentation, podcasts, coffee
Academic Department: Microbiology
Research Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity, biochemistry
Clinical Interests: Infectious diseases, Rheumatology, Internal medicine
Other interests: Running, hiking, spending time with my cat, board games, ranking every pizza place in New Haven
Academic Department: Interdepartmental Neuroscience
Academic Interests: Systems neuroscience, Visual circuits
Clinical Interests: Internal medicine, Ophthalmology
Other Interests: Penny boarding, Saint Bernards, Musicals, Making paper airplanes
Academic Program: InterdepartmentalNeuroscience
Academic Interests: Brain development, neuroscience, genetics, zebrafish, neurodevelopmental disorders
Clinical Interests: Internal medicine, psychiatry, neurology
Other Interests: Salsa dancing, biking everywhere, hiking, dinner parties, theater, cuddling my dog, fermenting foods and beverages, MakeHaven, Wednesday Evening Clinic
Academic department: History of Medicine
Research interest: history of medicine; hospital-based intimate partner violence response programs, anti-carceral feminism, health activism
Clinical interest: undecided
Other interests: knitting, live music, all things South Florida!
Academic Program: Immunobiology
Research Interests: Neuro-immunology, Cancer Biology
Clinical Interests: Oncology, Neurology
Other Interests: Music, Puzzles, Volleyball
Academic Department: Immunobiology
Academic Interests: Cancer immunology, immune signaling pathways, malignant B-cell tumors
Clinical Interests: Internal Medicine/Pediatrics (most likely heme/onc!)
Other Interests: Taking care of my obscene number of houseplants, running, baking, curating the perfect Spotify playlist, watching hours of seal videos on end
Department: Neuroscience, Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Academic interests: Brain-body interactions, interoception & autonomic regulation, mathematical models in neuroscience
Clinical: Interested in cardiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology & neurology - to be decided!
Other interests: Hiking, cats, double bass and classical music
Academic department: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
Research interests: health equity, mixed methods, implementation science
Clinical interests: psych or peds but TBD
Other interests: pottery, food, gardening
Academic department: Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Research interests: Cell biology and physiology. High throughput screening and drug discovery.
Clinical interests: Internal medicine, infectious diseases
Other interests: Rock climbing, cooking vegan food, Effective Altruism
Academic department: Public Health
Clinical interests: Health justice
Research interests: Implementation science, health equity
Other interests: Making things, being outside
Academic department: Microbiology
Research interests: Vector-pathogen interactions, especially those between bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and ixodid ticks.
Clinical interests: Infectious disease and transplant surgery.
Other interests: Cycling, fly fishing, and all things baseball.
Academic department: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Psychology
Research interests: trauma studies, affective and developmental neuroscience, critical psychology, liberation psychology
Clinical interests: child and adolescent mental health & medicine, health justice and activism
Other interests: plants (peep the !), dancing, spending time under the sun
Academic department: Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering polymeric nanoparticles for in utero delivery
Clinical Interests: General surgery, pediatric & adolescent gynecology, fetal therapy
Other Interests: Brazilian jiujitsu, dancing, rock climbing, reading
Academic department : Immunobiology
Research interests: allergy, mast cells, Tregs, intestinal homeostasis
Clinical interests: internal medicine/allergy & immunology
Other interests: hiking, cycling, cats, gardening, tacos, home improvement projects
Academic department: Immunobiology
Research interests: Host-microbe interaction
Clinical interests: Surgery
Other interests: Running, hiking, traveling
Academic department: Immunobiology
Research Interests: T cell differentiation, inborn errors of immunity
Clinical Interests: Rheumatology
Other interests: turtles/tortoises, hiking, running, rowing, swimming, cooking/baking, podcasts, board games
Academic Department: Genetics
Research Interests: Vascular biology, cell biology, calcium signaling, live imaging
Clinical Interests: rheumatology, IMs
Other interests: reading, comedy, food and restaurants
Academic department: Experimental Pathology
Research interests: Telomeres, telomerase, DNA damage, DNA repair
Clinical interests: Lab Medicine
Other interests: Cooking and videogames
Department: Neuroscience, Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Academic interests: Addiction, stress, prefontal cortex executive function
Clinical: Psychiatry
Other interests: Making stuff with wood, gardening, plant identification
Academic department: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Research interests: Neuronal-glial interactions in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Clinical interests: Undecided, but interested in Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, Neurology
Other interests: Singing/making music, trying new foods, learning new languages, traveling, visiting art galleries!
Academic department: Immunobiology
Research interests: Microbiome, host-microbe interactions, environmental determinants of inflammatory/autoimmune diseases
Clinical interests: Pediatrics, rheumatology, gastroenterology
Other interests: Hiking, baking, running, cartoons, birding, gardening
Research interests: Cancer Biology, Pancreatic Cancer, RNA splicing
Clinical Interests: Hematology/Oncology, Internal Medicine
Other interests: Watching Netflix/Hulu, trying New Haven Restaurants, playing board games and Mario Kart, traveling to Japan
Academic department: Genetics
Research interests: genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, precision medicine, interstitial lung diseases, computational biology
Clinical interests: internal medicine
Other interests: playing board games, baking, traveling, swimming, running
Academic department: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)
Academic Interests: chemical biology, structural biology, pharmacology, drug discovery, targeted protein degradation, molecular glues
Clinical Interests: Urology
Other Interests: running/cycling/hiking, cooking/baking, board games, podcasts
Academic department: Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
Research interest: surgical outcomes, health services research (access to care, disparities, health policy evaluation)
Clinical interest: academic surgery (trauma/emergency general surgery, orthopedic trauma)
Other interests: dance, running, theater, good books, travel