100 Years of Pediatrics at Yale

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• 00:00Yale Pediatrics has.
• 00:04Combined cutting edge science
• 00:08technology, clinical care,
• 00:11education and research and blended
• 00:13it with a sense of collaboration,
• 00:17collegiality and a feeling
• 00:19that we're part of a family.
• 00:25In every decade of this century of time,
• 00:28we can see clear progress on
• 00:31Children's Health, right,
• 00:32whether it started with hand
• 00:34washing to vaccinations and
• 00:36now to genomic medicine.
• 00:38You have really high and eared
• 00:39research in how to care for children.
• 00:42Better the first neonatal intensive care
• 00:44unit developed in the world was here at Yale.
• 00:46New Haven Children's Hospital
• 00:48developing the insulin pump for a sweat
• 00:51test was developed here at Yale for
• 00:53early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
• 00:55And we have just recently installed
• 00:58the first neonatal brain MRI machine
• 01:00in an academic center in the country.
• 01:03I don't know what to predict for
• 01:04the next century, but I think it'll
• 01:06be very exciting and it's fun to be
• 01:08a part of that kind of discovery.
• 01:10To find that we are celebrating our
• 01:13hundredth year in the midst of this pandemic.
• 01:17Really teaches how something that we
• 01:19have to have an extraordinary next 100
• 01:22years and that's what we are starting
• 01:25to see and that we are well suited
• 01:28because you're Pediatrics. Has done this.
• 01:35I came to Yale to do my training.
• 01:36I found that Yale had this perfect setup
• 01:40of really amazing clinicians, phenomenal
• 01:44research being done, but in a size
• 01:46that allowed for a feel of family.
• 01:48I think each one of us in the Department
• 01:51of Pediatrics does what we do best.
• 01:54We do what we're passionate about,
• 01:56and when you seek your passions, then you
• 01:58really excel and and you
• 02:00come up with that innovation.
• 02:04I'm here 52 years,
• 02:05but what I think is unique about
• 02:08it is its position within a very
• 02:11interactive university environment.
• 02:13So it's Yale University,
• 02:15Yale Medical School,
• 02:16Yale New Haven hospital.
• 02:18Many of us are both taking care
• 02:20of patients as well as studying
• 02:23what causes disease in children,
• 02:25and that relationship really makes
• 02:27us unique. We work together ARM and
• 02:30ARM with our nursing colleagues,
• 02:32our therapists, our pharmacists.
• 02:34To bring it to the bedside in
• 02:37our hospital and in our clinics.
• 02:43The thing that is so incredibly
• 02:45special about this place is just
• 02:47the marriage between this history of
• 02:49sort of academic success and being
• 02:51at the forefront of all kinds of
• 02:54pediatric research and clinical care.
• 02:56Really mixed with this feeling
• 02:57of community and family and
• 02:58being connected to New Haven and
• 03:00being connected to one another.
• 03:01We have community physicians who,
• 03:04unlike anywhere else in the country,
• 03:05round on their patients and care for their
• 03:08inpatients and faculty and community
• 03:10are in the primary care centers are.
• 03:13Traveling out to deliver care
• 03:15in unique and innovative ways.
• 03:17I love the fact that we have a true
• 03:20commitment to being the pediatricians
• 03:23in the state of Connecticut that we
• 03:26have a Community commitment not only
• 03:29to patient care but also for advocacy.
• 03:32Policy and then in our research.
• 03:37You can't really provide great
• 03:39clinical service if you don't
• 03:41really know your patients.
• 03:43The care of the patient is not just writing
• 03:45a prescription or giving a vaccine.
• 03:48You need to understand the
• 03:50social determinants of health.
• 03:52We all have a responsibility
• 03:54to be as inclusive as we
• 03:57possibly can to everyone.
• 03:59All members of our community,
• 04:02all members of our department,
• 04:04and all of us who come from
• 04:07different walks of life.
• 04:08With different backgrounds,
• 04:10we actively work to promote the careers
• 04:14of women and underrepresented medicine
• 04:16minorities because we need their voice.
• 04:19I'm really proud of our residency program,
• 04:22who this past year was majority
• 04:25minority and we that was really due to
• 04:28intentional efforts and outreach to bring
• 04:30in a diverse class and to support it.
• 04:35The role of the pediatrician is evolving.
• 04:38Now you can be a pediatrician and you
• 04:40can be cutting edge and innovative by
• 04:42working on policy by working on advocacy
• 04:45by being involved in the community.
• 04:47I have never known a place where you
• 04:49can sort of show up to work and be
• 04:51really your authentic self while still
• 04:53really having a strong commitment to
• 04:55furthering the field of Pediatrics
• 04:56and any number of specialties.
• 04:58I just love that sort of mix of joyfulness
• 05:01and curiosity with the academic rigor,
• 05:03and I think that's something
• 05:04that's pretty special to LP.
• 05:08We are excited this opportunity of
• 05:12really defining child care for the next
• 05:15100 years and we are more than able
• 05:18because of our history of resilience.
• 05:21Because of our history of innovation
• 05:23and asking relevant questions.