YSM Events
The Match Day celebration for the MD Class of 2024 will take place today at noon on the Harkness Lawn. Next week’s events will include a lecture on the digital transformation of health care, the opening of an art exhibit exploring mental health, and a concert by the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra.
Announcements
Featured Speakers
Yale Only Cynthia Crawford, PhDBiological Sciences Training Program (BSTP): "Age Matters: Developmental Differences in Drug Responsivity"
Psychology Professor Cynthia Crawford, of California State University, San Bernardino, focuses her research on animal and human models of drug addiction; second messenger system pharmacology; and developmental neuropsychopharmacology. She was the first faculty representative from a comprehensive public U.S. university chosen to serve on a review panel that approves research grants for the National Institutes of Health.Yale Only Natasza A. Kurpios, PhDVBT YCVRC Seminar Series Presents: “Adventures in Laterality: New Twists on How Pitx2 Governs Gut Lymphatic Vasculature and Lipid Absorptive Function”
At the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, Natasza Kurpios's lab uses embryos of the mouse and chicken to study how basic cellular processes determine the shape and function of organs.
Everyone John A. Spertus MD, MPHYale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds: "Implementing Patient-reported Outcomes in Clinical Care: The Final Frontier"
John A. Spertus, of the University of Missouri–Kansas City, is a nationally recognized expert on outcomes research in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Spertus uses bioinformatics to match big data from millions of patients’ outcomes with specific data from each patient, in an effort to determine the treatment most likely to succeed for the patient at hand.
Yale Only Robert Wachter, MDMedical Grand Rounds: “The Digital Transformation of Health Care: Is This Our Hemingway Moment?”
The 2024 Paul B. Beeson Professor
Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is the author of six books, including The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age. Dr. Wachter coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is widely credited as the founder and academic leader of the hospitalist specialty in medicine.
Everyone Amy J. Goldberg, MDSurgery Grand Rounds: Caring in Medicine Lectureship
Making a Difference: One Patient at a Time
Amy J. Goldberg is dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and chair of the Department of Surgery. She is a highly regarded trauma surgeon and an expert in violence prevention and improved outcomes for victims of trauma.Everyone Robert Malenka, MD, PhDYale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Serotonin and Sociability"
At Stanford University, Robert Malenka's research is focused on studying the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and the effects of neural circuits on learning and memory.
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Everyone
Everyone Sunita Puri, MD, MS
Everyone Steven Huang
Upcoming Events
Urology Grand Rounds: Surgical Management of RCC: Beyond Blood Loss & Incisions
Urology Grand Rounds
Speaker: Dr. Gennady Bratslavsky
Surgery Grand Rounds
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
Orthopaedics Grand Rounds "Hip "preservation" - from osteotomy to arthroplasty"
Speaker: Speakers to be announced.
Nephrology Grand Rounds
Speaker: Saieda Alleyne
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds: Microenvironmental Determinants of Systemic Therapy Response in Kidney Cancer: from human to mouse and back
Speaker: A. Ari Hakimi, MD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Dr. Sidney J. Blatt Lecture: "Love and Ideology"
Speaker: Orna Guralnik, PsyD
Match Day Celebration for the MD YSM Class of 2024
Nephrology Noon Conference: Research in Progress "Biomarkers of Acute Interstitial Nephritis: from Discovery to Clinical Application"
Speaker: Dennis G Moledina, MD, PhD, FASN
Endocrinology Clinical Dilemma
Fellow's Case Presentation
Speaker: Luisa Bernacet Rivera
Yale CCEH Rising Stars in Hematology Series: Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka, Ph.D., “Novel insights into iron recycling”
"Rising Stars in Non-Malignant Hematology" Seminar Series Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka
YES!: “Trainee Performance Improvement: Where We Are and Where We’re Going”
Speaker: Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS
CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Implementing Photovoice in Affected Communities: What Works and What Does Not Work?"
Speaker: Rumana Akhter Saifi
Building Against Burnout Webinar
Epic Tool Spotlight: Chart Search
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: "Wellbeing in Fellowship"
Speaker: Rosemarie Fisher, MD
Baxter and Broadus Endocrine Grand Round Series
Speaker: Dr. Mete Civelek
Developmental Therapeutics Research Program
"The Role of Biorepositories in Promoting Health Equity"
Speaker: Pamela L. Kunz, MD
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Speakers: Kate Nyhan, MLS, Kayla Del Biondo
Yale Cancer Biology Institute Seminar Series presents: Hironori Funabiki
Hironori Funabiki
Yale Cancer Answers: New Methods in Targeting Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Moitrayee Bhattacharyya, PhD
Diversity Committee Meeting
Speakers: Christine Centola, Aba Black, MD, MHS
Genetics Thesis Seminar: “Genetic Background’s Influence on the Pathogenesis of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 (SCA1)”
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: Pancreatic Cancer Support Group
Yale Cancer Biology Institute Faculty Candidate Seminar: Julia Li, PhD
Julia Li, PhD
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Yale Cancer Center / Smilow Cancer Hospital Sponsors: Brain Tumor Support Group
Microbiology Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research in Progress Seminar Series 2023-2024
Microbiology Weekly RIPS
Speaker: Thomas Hart
Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP): "Age Matters: Developmental Differences in Drug Responsivity"
Speaker: Cynthia Crawford, PhD
VBT YCVRC Seminar Series Presents: “Adventures in Laterality: New Twists on How Pitx2 Governs Gut Lymphatic Vasculature and Lipid Absorptive Function”
Speaker: Natasza A. Kurpios, PhD
MB&B Seminar: Resolving the Molecular Arms Race Between Human APOBEC3G and HIV-1 Vif
Speaker: John Gross
Chagas Disease Alliance at Yale (CDAY) Seminar Series: Ricardo Venencia, MD
Transplantation for Chagas Disease
Speaker: Ricardo Venencia, MD
Pathology Research in Progress Talks
Bioinformatics workshop series: 7. Functional analysis using R (In-Person)
Speaker: Bony De Kumar, PhD
Genetics Clinical Grand Rounds: "Genetics Beyond the Binary: Gender-Inclusive Genetic Services and Recommendations for Clinic and Research."
Speaker: Alejandra Oliva, MS, CGC
Genetics Department Seminar Series: “Adventures in laterality: New twists on how Pitx2 governs gut lymphatic vasculature and lipid absorptive function.”
Speaker: Natasza Kurpios
March Madness with MeSH (In-Person)
Speakers: Alexandria Brackett, MLIS, AHIP, MA, Courtney Hadley, MLS, BA
Chair-Based Exercise
YCSC Grand Rounds: Asian Americans in the Medical Training Environment
Yale Child Study Center
Speaker: David Yang, MD, MHS
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: Lung Cancer Support Group
Yale Cell Biology Seminar Series: "Inflammation is a Double-edged Sword…Anti-inflammatory Therapy Doesn’t Have to Be"
Speaker: William A. Muller, MD, PhD
Restorative Yoga with Ellen McNally hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Human and Translational Immunology Seminar Series: "SOMAmers: From modified aptamers to novel high-plex protein discovery"
Speaker: Alexander Scalia
Yale Cancer Center/Smilow North Haven Sponsor: Patient and Family Support Group
Department of Surgery Town Hall
Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds: "Implementing Patient-reported Outcomes in Clinical Care: The Final Frontier"
Speaker: John A. Spertus MD, MPH
Digestive Diseases- Research in Progress Seminar: Translational Imaging and Interventions of the Immune Microenvironment of HCC
Speaker: Julius Chapiro, MD/PhD
Melanoma Support Group
Rheumatology Grand Rounds: APMPPEVEXASTIPICTINU- Life of a Rheumatologist!
Speaker: Abhijeet Danve, MBBS, MD, MHS
Discovering Data in PubMed: Strategies for Successful Searches (Online)
Speakers: Kaitlin Throgmorton, Alexandria Brackett, MLIS, AHIP, MA
Discovering the bioinformatics, data and bibliographic support at the Medical Library (Online)
Speaker: Rolando Garcia Milian, MLS, AHIP
Genetics Research-In-Progress (RIP)
Speaker: Minming Wang
Pathology Autopsy Case Conference
Immune organoids to model human immune responses in autoimmunity and vaccine responses
Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology Seminar Series
Speaker: Mark Davis, PhD
Yale Cancer Center: Support Group for Prostate Cancer
Speakers: Speakers to be announced.
Early Onset Cancers Caregiver Support Group
Pediatric Grand Rounds
Stories from a Health Department Physician: How We Can Work Together to Keep Kids Healthy
Speaker: Lynn Sosa, MD
Yale Sleep Medicine Seminar "Sleep Health and Disparities within Sleep Medicine"
Speaker: Amanda M Lindo, MD
The Cingari Family Boutique Beyond Beauty Program
Location: Smilow Waterford
Yale PCCSM Grand Rounds "Update in Diabetes for the Pulmonologist"
Speaker: Silvio Inzucchi, MD
Neuroendocrine Series: Board Review: Thyroid
Speaker: Sachin Majumdar Jr, MD
Board of Permanent Officers (BPO) Meeting
PCCM Fellows Case Conference
Program for Humanities in Medicine Thomas P. Duffy Lecture: "From Medical Memoir to CPR: A Conversation with Physician-Writer Dr. Sunita Puri"
Speaker: Sunita Puri, MD, MS
American Liver Foundation Connecticut Primary Care Consortium
Speakers: Tamar Taddei, MD, Ariel Jaffe, MD, Simona Jakab, MD, Catherine Mezzacappa, MD, MPH
General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: William Ravich, MD, "Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease What You Probably Didn't Learn In School."
GIM Grand Rounds: William Ravich, MD, "GERD: What You Probably Didn't Learn In School."
Speaker: William Ravich, MD
Medical Grand Rounds: “The Digital Transformation of Health Care: Is This Our Hemingway Moment?”
The 2024 Paul B. Beeson Professor
Speaker: Robert Wachter, MD
Therapeutic Radiology Grand Rounds: Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases
Speaker: James E. Hansen, MD, MS
Virtual Gentle Yoga hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
The Very Basics of the Unix Command Line (In-Person)
Speaker: Justin DeMayo
Yale GIM Research in Progress Meeting: Will Becker, MD
Managing Chronic Pain When Opioids’ Harm Outweighs Benefit
Speaker: William Becker, MD
Pharmacology Seminar Series presents: “Bacterial Stress Resistance - How Bacteria cope with drastically changing Environments”
Speaker: Inga Haenelt
Salivary Talk- Rounds -Pathology
Speaker: Esther Diana Rossi, MD PhD
Searching MEDLINE on the Ovid Platform (Online)
Speaker: Melissa C Funaro, MLS, MS
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Smilow Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program Education Series
“Breast cancer treatment options based on germline testing”
Speaker: Mariya Rozenblit, MD
Diabetes Conference: Report from the Front: Cases from the Inpatient Service
Speakers: Laurel Brandon, Karen Mcavoy, Leigh Bak
Yale PCCSM Mentored Research Conference
Speakers: Andres Mora Carpio, John Huston, MD
Center for GI Cancers Seminar Series 2023-2024
Smilow Shares: What's My Risk: Understanding Cancer Risk Factors
Speakers: Claire Healy, MS, CGC, Carson Nestler, MS, CGC
Mindfulness meditation by New Haven Insight (via ZOOM)
Yale’s Post ASH Review: Highlights from the 2023 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
Speakers: Natalia Neparidze, MD, Justine Ryu, MD, Eric Chang, MD, Alexander B. Pine, MD, PhD, Kelsey Martin, MD
Surgery Grand Rounds: Caring in Medicine Lectureship
Making a Difference: One Patient at a Time
Speaker: Amy J. Goldberg, MD
Nephrology Grand Rounds: "CPC"
Speakers: Randy Luciano, MD, PhD, Gilbert Moeckel, MD, PhD, FASN
Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds: Investigating the Complex Biology of Drug Resistance for Clinical Impact
Speaker: Katerina Politi, PhD
Yale Cancer Center Translational Science Retreat
Speaker: Katerina Politi, PhD
Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Serotonin and Sociability"
Speaker: Robert Malenka, MD, PhD
Nephrology Noon Conference: "Conservative Kidney Management: A Health Services Challenge"
Speaker: Susan P. Wong, MD
Phone Meditation hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Digestive Diseases Pathophysiology Seminar: "Hepatitis B"
Speaker: Joseph Lim, MD
Baxter and Broadus Endocrine Grand Round Series
YSPH Ask-a-Librarian Office Hours (Virtual Drop-in)
Emerging Intersections: Autism Spectrum Disorders and Gender Identity
Speaker: Roald A. Øien, PhD
Pathology-Multidisciplinary Journal Club
Speaker: Krasi Rozenova
RSSP by Suganthinie (Anthi) Velagala: "TBD"
Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert
Featuring music from Williams, Holst, Strauss and more!
Speaker: Steven Huang
Getting Systematic About Evidence Synthesis (Online)
Speaker: Alyssa Ann Grimshaw, MLIS, MBA
Yale Cancer Answers: Predicting Prognosis for Patients
Speaker: Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD
Center for Thoracic Cancers Scientific Retreat
Speakers: Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, Sarah Goldberg, MD, MPH, Katerina Politi, PhD, Justin D. Blasberg, MD, MPH, FACS, Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD
Radiobiology and Genome Integrity: "SIRT3 Directed Acetylation of MnSOD: Tumor Suppressor or Promoter"
Speaker: David Gius, MD, PhD
YSPH Climate Change and Health Seminar with Dr. Jonathan Samet, "Air pollution, climate change, and health: How science does (does not) drive policy"
Pediatric Educational Learning Community (PELC)
Teaching When Time is Limited
Speaker: Dana Dunne, MD, MHS
Yale Cancer Center Sponsors: Pancreatic Cancer Support Group
Yale Stem Cell Spring Seminar Series: Amy Wagers "Advancing genome medicine for muscle regenerative biology and aging"
Speaker: Amy Wagers, PhD
Virtual T'ai Chi/Qigong hosted by Smilow Integrative Medicine
Microbiology Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research in Progress Seminar Series 2023-2024
Microbiology Weekly RIPS
Speakers: Irfan Ullah, PhD, Mario Pena-Hernandez
Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP):"Alcohol Use Disorder Heterogeneity: Exploring AUD Subdomain Mechanisms and Translational Opportunities"
Speaker: Danny Winder, PhD
VBT YCVRC Seminar Series presents " Leukocyte Biology Through the Eyes of Intravital Microscopy"
Speaker: Gustavo Menezes, PhD
"Climate Refugees" award-winning documentary screening
part of the Department of Internal Medicine's 13th Annual Global Health Day