Incoming Faculty Orientation: Remarks from Yale University President Maurie McInnis

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• 00:01Well, thank you. I appreciate
• 00:03that, Dean Brown. It has
• 00:04been a delight,
• 00:06to get
• 00:07to know the Yale School
• 00:08of Medicine,
• 00:10more deeply,
• 00:13and, of course, long before,
• 00:16joining the corporation
• 00:17knew it so well by
• 00:18reputation.
• 00:19But what an extraordinary place
• 00:21it is, and we are
• 00:23so glad,
• 00:24to be able to welcome
• 00:26all of you to the
• 00:26Yale community. And for me,
• 00:28it's great for me to
• 00:29get a chance to meet
• 00:30you,
• 00:32so early in my time
• 00:34here. As Dean Brown said,
• 00:35I just started July one.
• 00:37It's been,
• 00:39a bit of a whirlwind
• 00:40that I know is going
• 00:41to continue,
• 00:43for quite a while,
• 00:45But it's always great early
• 00:47on to get to spend
• 00:48some time with faculty,
• 00:51and especially its newest members
• 00:53who, like me,
• 00:55are joining this community,
• 00:57and we're all kind of
• 00:58starting on this journey together.
• 01:02Of course, faculty are at
• 01:03the heart of Yale.
• 01:06Your roles
• 01:07as researchers,
• 01:08as educators, as clinicians,
• 01:12really serve as an inspiration
• 01:15to our students. When our
• 01:16students see you
• 01:18at a lecture or working
• 01:20in your laboratory
• 01:21or in the clinic,
• 01:23they see someone who represents
• 01:26all of what is great,
• 01:29about the Yale School of
• 01:30Medicine and sets the standards
• 01:32for who it is they
• 01:34wish to become
• 01:35in their professional
• 01:36careers.
• 01:37They see your commitment.
• 01:40They see your optimism for
• 01:42the future
• 01:43in the ways that your
• 01:45research,
• 01:46your teaching,
• 01:47your scholarship,
• 01:48and your clinical care is
• 01:51trying to both provide for
• 01:52our community and change the
• 01:54world.
• 01:55One of the things that
• 01:56really distinguishes
• 01:58Yale,
• 02:00is that
• 02:01coming across campus is not
• 02:03far.
• 02:04It is an extraordinary
• 02:06gift
• 02:06to have this fully contiguous
• 02:09campus.
• 02:10And I know that many
• 02:11of you over the time
• 02:13of your careers here will
• 02:15be deeply integrated
• 02:17into Yale, not just the
• 02:19Yale School of Medicine, but
• 02:21into Yale as part of
• 02:22this university.
• 02:23Some of you will be
• 02:24doing collaborative
• 02:26teaching and research projects
• 02:28that
• 02:29bring you into the fuller
• 02:30Yale community.
• 02:32And I hope that in
• 02:33other ways, you'll just wanna
• 02:34participate
• 02:36in the extraordinary
• 02:37range of things that take
• 02:39place at Yale. This is
• 02:41such an amazing community.
• 02:43But you are also part
• 02:44of the New Haven community,
• 02:46and you are one of
• 02:47the most important ways in
• 02:49which Yale is integrated into
• 02:52the New Haven community, and
• 02:54you really are an inspiration
• 02:56for the rest of Yale.
• 02:57So
• 02:58the ways that you care
• 03:00for
• 03:01this community and our surrounding
• 03:03regions,
• 03:05especially
• 03:06New Haven's most vulnerable populations,
• 03:10is so important to our
• 03:11mission and to who we
• 03:13are.
• 03:14So you can think, for
• 03:15example, of the Haven free
• 03:17clinic,
• 03:18this student run primary care
• 03:20clinic,
• 03:21that helps to provide for
• 03:23New Haven neighbors,
• 03:26who
• 03:27usually are uninsured and don't
• 03:29have easy access to care,
• 03:31remarkable
• 03:32care.
• 03:33Our doctors, including our dean,
• 03:36cycle through and volunteer on
• 03:38a rotating
• 03:39basis,
• 03:41and
• 03:42the base the clinic serves
• 03:43over four to five hundred
• 03:45New Haven residents who otherwise
• 03:46would not have
• 03:48this kind of wrap around
• 03:49amazing care. So thank you
• 03:51for that. We have other
• 03:52faculty led,
• 03:55initiatives that bring together
• 03:57clinicians with community
• 03:59leaders to help make sure
• 04:00that we're working on issues
• 04:02around wellness, whether that is
• 04:04blood pressure,
• 04:06or other topics that help
• 04:07keep New Haven healthier.
• 04:10I know this summer that
• 04:11Yale Medicine and Yale New
• 04:13Haven Yale New Haven Health
• 04:14System, that's always a mouthful,
• 04:17launched the first mobile
• 04:19retail pharmacy and clinic,
• 04:22that's bringing
• 04:23health care out to to
• 04:25where people are. And that's
• 04:26just a few of the
• 04:28ways in which
• 04:29the Yale School of Medicine
• 04:31is doing such an important
• 04:32role as an ambassador
• 04:34for us in the community,
• 04:36but also really helping to
• 04:38connect and care for this
• 04:39community.
• 04:41And each of you, no
• 04:42matter what your role is
• 04:43going to be at the
• 04:44Yale School of Medicine, and
• 04:45usually you serve multiple roles,
• 04:47right, as educators, as researchers,
• 04:49as clinicians,
• 04:51you really are the ones
• 04:53who are
• 04:54setting that standard for how
• 04:56we care for future communities.
• 04:58So
• 04:58I personally wanna thank you
• 05:00for choosing Yale,
• 05:02for making this the place
• 05:04where you are taking the
• 05:05next step in your career.
• 05:07I stand alongside
• 05:09Dean Brown and Provost Stobel
• 05:12ready to support you,
• 05:14in the work that you
• 05:15are going to do here.
• 05:16Because while you are committed
• 05:18to caring for this community,
• 05:20we wanna make sure that
• 05:21we are there committed to
• 05:23caring for you, to giving
• 05:24you the support you need
• 05:26for your professional development, to
• 05:27helping make the Yale School
• 05:29of Medicine
• 05:30the place where you want
• 05:32to build your lives and
• 05:33your careers.
• 05:35So I wanna welcome you
• 05:36to Yale. I look forward
• 05:38hopefully in future opportunities to
• 05:40be able to meet each
• 05:41and every one of you,
• 05:43and working alongside you in
• 05:45the years to come. So
• 05:46thank you and welcome to
• 05:47Yale.