Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
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- Dr. Illuzzi is Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Illuzzi is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed her OB/GYN residency here at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2004, she was named a Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar supported by a career development grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. In 2006, she completed a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Illuzzi’s research examines the use of obstetric interventions and their impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes, especially among low-risk women. Topics include prophylaxis to prevent vertical transmission of group B streptococcus and innovative models of maternity care. Dr. Illuzzi served as Chief of the Obstetric Specialties and Midwifery division as well as the Medical Director of the Vidone Birthing Center at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital until 2020. In the education domain, Dr. Illuzzi previously served as clerkship director and director of medical studies in OB/GYN and curriculum director for the Advanced Training Period for the MD program at YSM. She has played an active role in the YSM curriculum redesign, LCME reaccreditation cycles, and continues to be a strong advocate for students, trainees, and faculty in the educational mission of the Yale School of Medicine.
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Center for Medical Education
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Director of the Center for Medical Education, YSM Administration
As associate dean for teaching and learning Dr. Hafler is professor in Pediatrics and leads the Center for Medical Education, which includes Continuing Medical Education and Evaluation and Assessment. Dr. Hafler works in Continuing Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education and Undergraduate Medical Education. She received her master's degree in education specializing in maternal and child health from Columbia University and her doctorate in Education from Harvard University. She focuses on assisting faculty, students, and residents to explore innovative ways to effectively promote learning in both the classroom and the clinical settings. Promoting, influencing and nurturing a climate in which physicians, residents and students can teach — and learn — has been foremost among her career objectives. She has focused on providing an awareness of context for students, residents and faculty, urging them to be innovative in their many teaching environments and encouraging them to explore ways to understand how they can effectively promote learning in their interactions among themselves. Dr. Hafler directs the the Master of Health Science-Medical Education Track Degree. Dr. Hafler runs an active research program applying qualitative research methods in medical education. She collaborates with and mentors clinicians and faculty on the elements of qualitative research in the field of medical education and medical care. In turn, mentored faculty members have learned to develop and demonstrate the tools necessary to effectively teach and lead others. Dr. Hafler has published over 50 book chapters, curriculum materials and original articles in medical education and clinical journals. She has served as visiting professor internationally and has been invited to present regularly at regional and national professional meetings.Project Coordinator, Center for Medical Education
In my role as Project Coordinator at the Center for Medical Education, I enjoy working closely with our faculty and staff to support their efforts and bring exceptional programs to our medical education community. As part of the administrative team, I assist in the coordination and implementation of the MHS-Medical Education Degree Program, Continuing Medical Education (CME) reports and submissions and the Committee to Review Student Participation in Research. I am the coordinator for the Medical Education Discussion Group series, which provides monthly educator development sessions on topics of interest to YSM educators. I also lend my support to any program or project that the TLC is offering, and I enjoy the flexibility and diversity of this work. Please feel free to reach out to me via e-mail, I am happy to assist you as needed.Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Associate DIO; GME Director, Educator Development, Department of Medicine; Associate, Teaching and Learning Center; Associate Chair for Education and Academic Affairs, Internal Medicine; Director of YMS Coaching Program , Office of Curriculum
Dr. Dunne has spent the majority of her career focusing on the care of patients with sexually transmitted diseases and on the education of clinicians who also care for these patients. She is a founding and core faculty member for the Yale Primary Care HIV Training Track.Dr Dunne also enjoys medical education and faculty development. She was the Inpatient Internal Medicine Clerkship Director from 2011-2023 and now is Director of the YSM Coaching program. She directs educator development projects for GME and UME.Professor of Psychiatry; Executive Director of Evaluation & Assessment at the Center for Medical Education, School of Medicine
My contributions to education and research during my career have focused on organizing and delivering health-related services for vulnerable populations and training health professionals. With a PhD in Sociology of Medicine, I initially worked on national and international evaluations of HIV/AIDS programs and mental health services. More recently, I've applied my skills to medical education, primarily assisting faculty in assessing trainees and training programs and designing curriculum in health professional education. At Yale School of Medicine, I serve as the Executive Director of Evaluation & Assessment at the Center for Medical Education. My expertise includes evaluating health professional education curricula; training faculty, staff, and students in feedback methods; improving assessment systems for educators; and consulting on program and curriculum evaluation approaches for scholarly work. I teach curriculum development and evaluation in the Masters of Health Science/Medical Education program and other educational programs. I am chairperson of the School of Medicine's Learning Environment Subcommittee of the Education Policy and Curriculum Committee. Additionally, I integrate LGBTQI-health topics into the curriculum and serve on the Dean's Council for LGBTQI Affairs. In select graduate medical education programs, including my academic department, Psychiatry, I gather and analyze qualitative data for internal reviews of training programs.Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Director of Student Assessment, Teaching and Learning Center; Director of clinical skills assessment, Office of Education
Dr. Green received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health. His post graduate training included an internship, residency, and fellowship in general medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr Green is Professor of Medicine and Director of Student Assessment at the Teaching and Learning Center at the Yale School of Medicine. He serves on the steering committee of the AAMC Core EPAs for Entering Residency national pilot. He previously served on the ACGME / ABIM milestones task force and the SGIM reforming internal medicine residency training task force. Dr. Green's research interests include assessment, entrustable professional activities, retrieval-based learning, and evidence-based medicine. He received the regional and national awards for scholarship in medical education from the Society of General Internal Medicine and was selected as a Kimball Scholar at the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr Green cares for persons living with HIV infection and supervises medical residents at the Nathan Smith Clinic.Center for Medical Education, Director of Programs
As Director of Programs for the Center for Medical Education, Sara ensures the Center’s vast array of programs continually meets its high standards for excellence. Sara brings extensive experience in healthcare program development and administration, most recently at Planetree International, a subsidiary of Griffin Health Services Corporation. There, she led a variety of certification and educational programs, including an annual international conference, a person-centered care fellowship, and numerous webinars. She brings her passion about education, commitment to quality, team work, and collaboration to help lead the Center’s programs.Director of Educational Technology
As the Director of Educational Technology I provide consultation to YSM's learning community about a wide range of topics pertaining to digital technology as it applies to medical education. My areas of expertise include: application development, mobile computing, e-learning systems, augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR), survey design, data analysis and educational videos.Senior Administrative Assistant Yale School of Medicine Continuing Medicine Education; Program Administrator
Program Manager for Educator Development, Center for Medical Education, Yale School of Medicine; Program Manager for Educator Development, Center for Medical Education
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Pediatric Sub-Internship Director, Pediatrics; Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Pediatric Hospitalist
Dr. Heather Dahlquist completed medical school at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She completed her pediatric residency training at the University of California Los Angeles and at the University of Minnesota where she was chief resident. Dr. Dahlquist's practice is focused on caring for newborns and children in the hospital setting. Her interests include patient and family centered care and improving medical education for students and residents. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Council for Medical Education in Pediatrics.Professor of Anesthesiology; Vice Chair for Medical Education, Anesthesiology
Viji Kurup MD is Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale. Viji completed her Residency in Anesthesiology and Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Yale. She has been on faculty in the department since 2005 where she has developed a career as a medical educator. She has completed her fellowship in Medical Education and is currently Vice Chair for Medical Education as well as Director of the Yale Anesthesia Media Lab and the Course Director for the Anesthesia Resident Simulations. She has led the integration of the Flipped Classroom model for Anesthesia Resident Training at Yale.Viji's academic interests include participating in Global Health projects and exploring innovative ways of integrating technology in medical education. She is also the Co-Chair for the Global health and outreach committee in the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA). She has volunteered with the Health Volunteer Overseas Program (www.hvousa.org) in Vietnam. She enjoys teaching and was awarded the Faculty Award for Excellence in Education and Leadership for the Department of Anesthesiology. She is a firm believer in the importance of physician wellness and has introduced a comprehensive wellness curriculum within her department. She is the Past President of the CT State Society of Anesthesiologists and is actively involved in advocacy efforts both at the State and Federal level. She also volunteers in the community and is a regular speaker at career day for inner city schools in New Haven. She lives in Trumbull CT with her husband and two kids, and because that was clearly not keeping her busy enough, a high-maintenance cat!! In her free time, she enjoys cooking, painting (acrylic on canvas), reading and meditating..Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Point of Care Ultrasound Education, Office of Curriculum; Fellowship Director of Emergency Ultrasound, Emergency Medicine; Faculty Associate, Point of Care Ultrasound Education, Center for Medical Education; Director, Advanced Training Period , Office of Curriculum; Associate Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Section, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Liu is the current Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education and the Curriculum Director of the Advanced Training Period in the Yale School of Medicine. She focuses on designing curricula and implementation of ultrasound use in basic, physical and clinical science teaching to medical students. Additionally, she brings educational initiatives in teaching emergency medicine residents, fellows and faculty. She has recently served as the Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Emergency Ultrasound Section, and Past-President of the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. She is currently the President within the Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships, as well as a member of the inaugural Advanced Emergency Ultrasound examination committee of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital; Director, Standardized Patient Program, Teaching and Learning Center; Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center, Child Study Center
Dr. Andres Martin is the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor at the Child Study Center, and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center’s Standardized Patient Program, Yale School of Medicine. He is also medical director for the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Martin will serve as academic advisor to the CHATogether program.Lecturer in Occupational Medicine
Mr. Slade's work focuses on the development of analytical models to evaluate the effects of physical, social and environmental factors on the patterns of disease and injury within the workplace setting, including non-traditional settings such as the military and merchant mariners. In recent years, he has been the lead statistician for four clinical trials conducted by the Department of Defense to determine the effect of pharmacological agents on prevention of hearing loss as well as mild traumatic brain injuries.Associate Professor in Cell Biology; Director, Medical Studies
Peter Takizawa is an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine. He is also Co-Director of the Pre-Clerkship Curriculum at Yale School of Medicine and a member of the Teaching and Learning Center. He has led the effort to incorporate team-based learning in medical education at Yale through the creation of a website and training faculty. He has also created an online histology website that is open to the world. He teaches medical students at Yale and is course director of Scientific Foundations and leader of the Cell Biology thread.Assistant Professor; Director of Performance Improvement, Yale School of Medicine; Director of Clinical Reasoning, Yale School of Medicine; Associate, Educator Development in Teaching Clinical Reasoning, Teaching and Learning Center
Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry before completing his residency training in Yale University’s Primary Care Residency Program. He subsequently completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship in Medical Education at Yale University School of Medicine, during which he received a Master of Health Science degree in the Medical Education Pathway. In 2018, he joined the Academic Hospitalist Program in the Yale Section of General Internal Medicine. He is active in medical education, particularly at Yale University School of Medicine, where he has roles as the Director of Clinical Reasoning and a section leader in the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience. He also has a role in the Teaching and Learning Center as an Associate for Clinical Reasoning Educator Development, where he provides and collaborates on consultations, workshops, and scholarship related to teaching clinical reasoning. Dr. Wijesekera's educational interests include clinical skills, curriculum development, interprofessional education and mentorship for medical students and residents. His research interests include clinical reasoning, diagnostic error, and interprofessional education with recent publications in JAMA Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. He gives faculty development workshops regionally and nationally on teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic error, on which he completed a fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (2018).Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Chair for Educational Scholarship, Internal Medicine; Director, Education Scholar Fellowship, Center for Medical Education; Program Director, Yale General Internal Medicine Medical Education Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Director, Resident Research, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine; Education Scholar Fellowship Director, Center for Medical Education Faculty Associates
Donna M. Windish, MD, MPH has a passion for medical education and educational scholarship. She has created and led many programs to train fellows and faculty in educational scholarship. She founded the General Internal Medicine Medical Education Fellowship in 2016 which has produced national leaders and scholars in UME, GME and CME education. She developed a novel faculty development program in educational scholarship for Yale's Department of Internal Medicine called ACES (Advancement of Clinician Educator Scholarship). She mentored all 30 ACES participants and ran the program for 5 years. She developed a similar faculty development program for Yale School of Medicine in 2024: the Educator Scholar Fellowship. This program trains faculty who are interested in educational scholarship across all Departments of the School. Dr. Windish also established and co-leads a national education scholarship faculty development program for faculty across the country through the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Windish has mentored numerous students, residents, fellows and faculty at Yale and across the country in educational scholarship initiatives. Her mentorship has been recognized nationally through the Society of General Internal Medicine who awarded her with the Frederick L. Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award and most recently the Mid-Career Education Mentorship Award.
Office of the Deputy Dean
Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Dr. Illuzzi is Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Illuzzi is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed her OB/GYN residency here at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2004, she was named a Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar supported by a career development grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. In 2006, she completed a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Illuzzi’s research examines the use of obstetric interventions and their impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes, especially among low-risk women. Topics include prophylaxis to prevent vertical transmission of group B streptococcus and innovative models of maternity care. Dr. Illuzzi served as Chief of the Obstetric Specialties and Midwifery division as well as the Medical Director of the Vidone Birthing Center at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital until 2020. In the education domain, Dr. Illuzzi previously served as clerkship director and director of medical studies in OB/GYN and curriculum director for the Advanced Training Period for the MD program at YSM. She has played an active role in the YSM curriculum redesign, LCME reaccreditation cycles, and continues to be a strong advocate for students, trainees, and faculty in the educational mission of the Yale School of Medicine.Manager, Office of the Deputy Dean for Education; Manager, Office of the Deputy Dean for Education
Lisa joined Yale School of Medicine in March 2012 to provide administrative support in the Office of Education for the MD program curriculum rebuild project. In 2014, she became the LCME coordinator for the medical school accreditation and then joined the Office of the Deputy Dean for Education in May 2015.Senior Administrative Assistant 2
Megan is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Office of the Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine. She is primarily responsible for administrative support for Dean Illuzzi.She previously worked as Research Program Manager at the Physician Associate Program, where she was responsible for managing the administrative component of the research education program. Prior to her work in medical education, she was the Program Coordinator for the Executive Education Department at the Yale School of Management. Megan is a graduate of Rider University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with minors in Criminal Justice and Gender Studies. In her spare time, Megan enjoys reading, creative writing, and bike riding.Communications, Senior Officer
Abby joined Yale School of Medicine in November 2017, from Yale School of Management, where she had spent six years as Special Assistant to the Dean. Prior to that, she was Director of Alumni Affairs at Yale Law School. Before returning to Yale, where Abby attended college and law school, Abby spent two years clerking for judges and eleven years as a lawyer for the federal government, predominantly focusing on firearms and explosives law and policy. Abby is a member of the Yale Traffic Safety Committee. Outside of work, Abby is on the board of the New Haven Preservation Trust, and also is active with the Safe Streets Coalition of New Haven.Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Assistant Dean for Education, Medical Education; Director of Clinical Skills, Office of Education; Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Editor, Yale Primary Care Pediatrics Curriculum, Pediatrics
Jaideep Talwalkar is a physician and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. He provides primary care for patients of all ages as well as specialty care for adults with cystic fibrosis. In addition to seeing patients, he teaches medical students and residents at Yale and develops curricula for medical education. As Assistant Dean for Education, he works on educational and administrative innovations for YSM. As Director of Clinical Skills, he oversees the teaching of fundamental bedside skills to Yale medical students. He also edits and administers the Yale Primary Care Pediatrics Curriculum (pcpc.yale.edu), a guide for pediatric teaching used by pediatricians nationwide. When not at work, he spends time with family and seeks any opportunity to play ultimate frisbee.
Program for Humanities in Medicine
Professor; Director, Program for Humanities in Medicine; Director, Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers' Workshop
Program Administrator; Program for Biomedical Ethics Manager; Program for Humanities in Medicine Manager
Program for Biomedical Ethics
Co-Director
Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology); Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Pediatrics Ethics Program
Mark Mercurio is Professor of Pediatrics, Founding Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. He was, for many years, Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Yale, having stepped down from that role in 2022. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University, an M.D. from Columbia University, and completed Pediatrics Residency and Neonatology Fellowship at Yale. After fellowship, he served for many years as an attending neonatologist at Yale and Founding Director of the Newborn ICU at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, CT, and earned an M.A. in Philosophy from Brown University, before returning to Yale full time. Dr. Mercurio has for many years been active in neonatology and medical ethics education for residents, fellows, nurses, attending physicians, PA students, medical students, and others. He has been a member of the medical faculty for the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) since 2010, is a former Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Bioethics, and an original co-editor of the American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Curriculum in Bioethics. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and member of the American Pediatric Society. Dr. Mercurio is widely published, and has been an invited speaker on medical ethics in over a dozen countries and most US states. In 2023, he received the William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence from the American Academy of Pediatrics. He and his wife Anna live in Branford, Connecticut, and have three grown children.Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Yale Liaison, Working Group on: Bioethics of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Genomics Implementation Science Curriculum; Director, Good Pharma Scorecard, --; Board President, Bioethics International, --; Advisory Board Member, Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University; Expanded Access Program for Experimental Covid19 Drugs, Ethics Committee, Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is Co-Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and an Associate Professor in Yale School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Good Pharma Scorecard (an index that ranks and rates pharmaceutical companies on their bioethical performance) and Founder of the nonprofit Bioethics International. Her current research focuses on ethics, equity and governance in drug, vaccine, and medical device research, development, and accessibility as well as in the ethics of healthcare data sharing. She also specializes in developing and using metrics to enhance accountability and social responsibility in biomedical innovation. Prior to joining Yale’s faculty, she was an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in NYU School of Medicine and completed training in physics, regulatory governance, bioethics, and ethics at Fordham University, Duke University, Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University, and Harvard University.Associate Director
Professor Emeritus of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine), Associate Director, Yale Program for Biomedical EthicsAssociate Director
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics
Sarah C. Hull, MD, MBE is a board-certified cardiologist whose clinical practice is focused on echocardiography and cardio-oncology (cardiac care of cancer patients). She is the cardiology course director at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), where she also serves as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. She was awarded the Bohmfalk Prize for teaching in basic sciences in 2021. Her recent scholarly work has focused on ethical issues involving ventricular assist devices as destination therapy, ethical considerations in the care of patients with recurrent injection drug use related endocarditis, shared decision making in cardio-oncology, nutrition ethics, and ethical issues raised during the COVID pandemic.Program Manager
Program Administrator; Program for Biomedical Ethics Manager; Program for Humanities in Medicine Manager
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology Oncology)
Dr. Prasanna Ananth is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist. As a specialist caring for children with cancer and blood disorders, she says that helping children and families cope with serious illness provides inspiration for her patient care and research. Dr. Ananth is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology). Her research focuses on evaluating and improving care for children with advanced cancer. Watch a video with Dr. Prasanna Ananth >>Professor Emeritus of Medicine; Special Advisor to the Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Medical Education
I am interested in early professional identification; stories of the profession, patients, New Haven and ourselves; power relationships in health care; and improving the learning environment. I was a junior high school English teacher before medical school and am interested in the intersection of the humanities with medicine. My research interests are in these areas and in ways to improve the medical student experience. I was the associate dean for student affairs for 23 years, through October 2021, and for six years directed the first Master Course for first-year medical students entitled Introduction to the Profession. I will be on sabbatical from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022 during which time I hope to identify new ways that I can contribute to the Medical School community.Associate Professor of Surgery (Transplant); Surgical Director, Liver Transplantation; Medical Director, Transplant and Liver Unit
Ramesh Batra, MD, is the surgical director of liver transplant program at Yale Transplant Center. He is also the primary living donor liver surgeon for the transplant center besides being a multi-organ (liver, kidney, pancreas) transplant surgeon for adult and pediatric patients. Alongside his transplant roles, he also performs complex hepatobiliary operations for liver tumors and biliary tract disorders in high risk patients. Dr. Batra's expertise is in living organ donation and also in transplanting extended spectrum aka “marginal” organs, both liver and kidneys for early transplant and reducing the time on organ transplant waiting list. With this ability, he continually seeks to find “opportunity” in organs declined by other transplant centers for his patients. Aside from maximizing utility and reducing organ discard, he is passionate about alleviating the ethical barriers in organ donation and transplantation. As a qualified and trained ethicist, he is nationally acclaimed in the field and constantly seeks to push the boundaries in organ transplant As a surgeon-scientist, Dr. Batra has made notable strides in the field of living donor liver transplantation, simultaneously championing the delicate ethical equilibrium of double equipoise in his capacity as an Ethicist. Winner of the 2020 Academic Development Award for his research titled 'Striking a balance for ethical and shared decision-making in living liver donation, a step towards the double equipoise”, attests to the aforementioned role. Additionally, his receipt of the 2022 Yale Innovation Grant highlights his utilization of cutting-edge deep machine learning models to enhance organ donation practices specially in the arena of DCD organ donation, is perfectly timed with innovative machine perfusion and NRP practices. Deep machine learning to improve outcomes for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, upholding Utility and the Final Rule further testifies his complimentary research theme of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics, a rare but much needed combination. His accolades extend to multiple academic awards, including the 2024 Rising Star in Transplantation and the 2015 Jr. Investigator Award of the ASTS, alongside leadership roles in the committees of UNOS, ASTS, and AASLD. Dr. Batra unequivocally embodies the tripartite mission; balancing roles as a surgeon-scientist-educator, he finds time for his passion of teaching and directs the 'Ethics of Healthcare' undergraduate course at the Dolan School of Business, Fairfield University. Harnessing the power of these Three Pillars, he aims to transcend the boundaries of academia and reshape the ethical landscape of emerging technologies while making healthcare more efficient, technological advanced and ethically sound..Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Interim Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Program
Dr. Richard Belitsky is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Interim Program Director of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program. He is noted for his work in medical education at both the undergraduate (medical student) and graduate (resident) levels. Named the School of Medicine’s deputy dean for education in 2006, Dr. Belitsky is concerned with curriculum development, particularly with respect to the methods and challenges involved in teaching medical students in the areas of patient-centered medical interviewing, the biopsychosocial model, social history and counseling patients for behavior change. He is also interested in the development of professional identity in medical education. In addition, he is interested in the delivery of mental health services in prisons and jails, with particular attention to suicide in correctional facilities. Belitsky holds a B.A. from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and an M.D. from the University of Florida School of Medicine. He came to Yale in 1979 as a resident in psychiatry and continued on as a fellow in forensic psychiatry and chief resident/instructor in the Department of Psychiatry. He joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1983, when he also became unit chief of the Inpatient Services Division of the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He served as the director of the division 1988-1989. He was the medical director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute 1991-1997. At the School of Medicine, Belitsky served as the residency program director in the Department of Psychiatry from 1996-2006 and as the Interim residency program director from 2001-present. He became the deputy chair for education in 2001, serving in that role until he was promoted to deputy dean for education. He has earned numerous professional honors at Yale, including the Stephen Fleck M.D. Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Teacher, the Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize and the Francis Gilman Blake Award (for the member of the faculty at the School of Medicine designated by the senior class as the most outstanding teacher of the medical sciences) in both 1998 and 2000.Research Scholar
Nancy Berlinger, a research scholar, focuses on ethical challenges in health care work and on related areas of professional education and health policy in the United States and internationally. Special interests include treatment decision-making and care near the end of life; ethical issues in the management of chronic illnesses, including cancer; access to health care for undocumented immigrants and migrant workers; and the ethics of workarounds and other practices for managing problems of safety and harm in health care systems.She directed the research project that produced a revised and expanded edition of The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life (2013) and is the first author of the new Guidelines. She is also the author of After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness (2005). With scholars at The Hastings Center and at Oxford University, she is working with the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore to develop an innovative Web-based ethics casebook on medical decision-making in Asian social contexts. She teaches health care ethics at Yale University School of Nursing.Her research products are featured on two public Web sites of The Hastings Center:Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Nephrology)
Margaret Johnson Bia M.D. is now a retired Professor Emeritus of Medicine but is still involved in patient care. She functions intermittently as a medical attending seeing hospitalized kidney patients on the Peters Firm at YNHH and as a preceptor for medical students in the clinics caring for underserved patients in the New Haven community. Before retiring in 2018, she cared for patients with kidney disease, especially those receiving kidney transplants for 40 years. She has always been involved in teaching medical students, residents and renal fellows and, after stepping down as medical Director of Transplant in 2000, she created and became Director of the Clinical Skills program at the medical school until 2014. She has authored over one hundred ten original articles and book chapters.Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Bogucki has been Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Emergency Medicine, and joined the Yale Emergency Medicine faculty in 1989. Dr. Bogucki has held several positions of leadership in the Fire Service and EMS communities. She chaired the NFPA 1582 Task Group, and was a principal member of the NFPA 1500 Technical Committee; she served on the Board of Visitors of the National Fire Academy, and conducted on-site investigations of fire fighter line-of-duty deaths for NIOSH.She served for many years on the editorial board of Pre-hospital Emergency Care, and was an Associate Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine. She served two terms on the Board of Directors of the National Association of EMS Physicians, and spent 15 years on the Board of Directors of the National Registry of EMTs; 2 of them as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Bogucki was a Senior Medical Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the US Department of Health&Human Services from 2004-2008, participating in the Federal medical responses to major disasters. Dr. Bogucki was recently a co-PI on a CMS Innovations project that established a program of coordinated community resources to improve health and independence of elders, while decreasing their reliance on EMS and EDs for medical care. Before her retirement, she was also a co-PI on a CDC grant that teamed paramedics with recovery coaches to assist opioid-addicted patients following an overdose.Professor Emeritus of Immunobiology; Member of HTI and VBT
Al Bothwell graduated with an A.B. from Washington University in 1971, got a PhD from Yale in Sidney Altman’s lab in 1975 and then did a postdoc with David Baltimore at MIT where he established the genetic basis of the anti-NP idiotypic antibody response. He has been on the Immunobiology faculty at the Yale Medical School since 1982. He continued studies of B cell antibody diversity and memory and then worked on T cell receptor structure/function and signaling. He also developed the molecular genetics of the Ly6 gene family (aka Sca-1/Ly6A and Ly6C). Increasingly his work has shifted to studies of human immunity with development of humanized mouse models of vascular disease/transplantation, type 1 diabetes and cancer. Studies on gut inflammation in a genetic tumor model and Inflammatory Bowel Disease have lead most recently to contributions concerning wnt signaling to infections and asthma. His studies focus on the remarkable immunoregulatory properties of Wnt signaling that is both canonical and non-canonical and involves direct interaction with platelets.This is a basic mechanism for regulating tissue permeability affecting the mobility of lymphocytes and tumor cells.Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Bothwell is an ethicist and historian of public health. Her research examines social, historical, and ethical dimensions of epidemiology with a particular focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Her current book project examines how international and national policies have influenced trial rigor and ethics, protections of vulnerable trial subjects, and participant diversity in RCTs. She also does work at the intersection of climate change, epidemiology, and ethics. She completed a PhD in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Policy, Law, and Ethics in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has also had visiting appointments at Oxford University, Foundation Brocher, the Karolinska Institutet, and National Taiwan University. She teaches public health ethics and the history of public health, and provides pre-departure ethics training in global health practice. She holds a secondary appointment in the Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.Associate Director, Center for Bioethics; Associate Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Chair, Community Bioethics Forum, Yale School of Medicine
Associate Professor of Child Psychology; Associate Director, Psychology Training Program, Yale Child Study Center; Co-Director, Yale Child Study Center Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service; Clinical Director of Ambulatory Pediatric Psychology, Yale Child Study Center
Dr. Cardona is the Clinical Director of Ambulatory Pediatric Psychology at the Child Study Center, for which she directs program development initiatives with the aim of integrating behavioral health services across numerous pediatric specialty clinics within the Yale New Haven Health System. Dr. Cardona also conducts program development, training, and clinical supervision in her role as Associate Training Director for the Psychology Training Program of the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Cardona serves as Co-Director of the Child Study Center Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service, which offers a broad range of psychiatric services to children and adolescents who are under the care of the inpatient pediatric services of Yale New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Cardona is a clinical consultant to the Children's Psychiatric Day Hospital and she is a supervising psychologist for the Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Service at YNHH, both of which serve children ages 4 to 13 with serious psychiatric, developmental and behavioral vulnerabilities. Dr. Cardona is a member of the Pediatric Ethics Committee.Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Dr. Cohen has an abiding interest in clinical cardiology having practiced at the School of Medicine for many years. He has expertise in the areas of coronary artery disease, preventive cardiology, valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease and cardiomyopathy.Professor Adjunct in Psychiatry; Associate Dean for Gender Equity, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Office for Women in Medicine and Science, Yale School of Medicine; Deputy Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Psychiatry; Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Program Evaluation and Child Trauma Research , The Consultation Center, The Consultation Center
Cindy A. Crusto, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology Section), Yale University School of Medicine, is Associate Dean for Gender Equity and Director of the Office for Women in Medicine and Science and the Director of Program Evaluation and Child Trauma Research at The Consultation Center.Dr. Crusto has more than 20 years of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating preventive interventions in schools and community agencies. She also has extensive experience providing training and technical assistance to schools and to community-based organizations on the evaluation of prevention programs. She is interested in culturally relevant interventions for children from racial/ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds and in school-based behavioral health services. Dr. Crusto's research examines the impact of family violence on children and the ecological influences on child and family well-being, and includes rigorous evaluations of community-based initiatives involving substance use and violence prevention, and the promotion of school readiness. Dr. Crusto earned a B.A. in psychology from Vassar College, an M.A. in clinical-community psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina. She completed pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in clinical-community psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.Professor of Medicine (General Medicine), Pediatrics and Divinity; Director, Int Med-Pediatrics Residency Program; Director, Int Med-Pediatrics Residency Program; Professor, Religion and Health, Yale Divinity School
Ben Doolittle is the Program Director of the Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. He is also the Medical Director of the Faculty-Resident Continuity Clinic. His practice focuses on addiction, Hepatitis C, HIV, and primary care. His research interests explore the intersection of medicine and spirituality, wellness and burnout. Ben is also an ordained minister, holding a MDIV from Yale Divinity School, and serves a local urban congregation.Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Director, Yale Internal Medicine Associates; Director, Medical Student Palliative and End-of-Life Care Education
Matthew Ellman is Professor of Medicine, Director of the Yale Internal Medicine Associates, Vice Chief for Clinical Affairs for the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at New York University-Bellevue Hospital, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Programs at Yale. As a core member of the Clinical Skills Faculty at Yale, Dr. Ellman has developed a model longitudinal, integrated curriculum to teach palliative and end-of-life care skills to medical students. His educational passion and scholarly work focuses on assuring that all medical students graduates with the competency to care effectively and compassionately for patients with life-limiting and terminal illness.Professor of Therapeutic Radiology
Dr. Evans completed her medical school training at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 2001. She then went on to complete a residency in Internal Medicine there before her Training in Radiation Oncology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA, where she was chief resident. She has served as the chair of the multidisciplinary quality assurance subcommittee with the American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. She is a previous chair of the best of ASTRO meeting, and was part of ASTRO's annual meeting steering committee and Education committee. She is retired as an executive editor for the journal Practical Radiation Oncology. She has served as the Chair of the Radiation Oncology Health Advisory Committee, which is the analysis arm of the Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System. She currently serves as vice chair of ASTRO’s Clinical Affairs and Quality Council. Her interests in cancer care particularly include quality and safety, cognitive bias, comparative effectiveness, and patient communication. Her passion is in the care of patients with breast cancer, with a particular bent towards ways in which we can minimize side effects of treatment. She serves as a Professor of Therapeutic Radiology. Her twitter handle is @SueEvansMDMPH.The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics & Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Medical Ethics Weill Cornell Medical College; Director of Medical Ethics & Attending Physician New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center; Visiting Professor of Law & Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law Yale Law School; Co-Director CASBI, Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P. is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he is a Tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medical Ethics in Neurology, Professor of Health Care Policy and Research, and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry. He the founding Chair of the Ethics Committee of New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center where he is an Attending Physician and Director of Medical Ethics. A member of the Adjunct Faculty of Rockefeller University and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University Hospital, he Co-Directs, the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI) at Weill Cornell and Rockefeller. In 2014, he served as the Dwight H. Terry Visiting Scholar in Bioethics and Visiting Professor in the History of Medicine at Yale. In 2015, he was appointed the Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law at Yale Law School.Dr. Fins is an elected Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Academico de Honor (Honored Academic) of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España (the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain).A recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Dr. Fins has also received a Soros Open Society Institute Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars Award, a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Visiting Fellowship and support from the Dana, Buster and Katz Foundations, amongst others. He was appointed by President Clinton to The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and currently serves on The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law by gubernatorial appointment. In 2015, Dr. Fins received the Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine.Dr. Fins was graduated from Wesleyan University (B.A. with Honors, The College of Letters, 1982) and Cornell University Medical College (M.D., 1986). He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and has served as Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and was recertified in 2012.The author of over 300 publications, his most recent book is Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and The Struggle for Consciousness (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Dr. Fins is also the author of A Palliative Ethic of Care: Clinical Wisdom at Life’s End (Jones and Bartlett, 2006) and a co-author of the 2007 Nature paper describing the first use of deep brain stimulation in the minimally conscious state. His current scholarly interests include ethical and policy issues in brain injury and disorders of consciousness, palliative care, research ethics in neurology and psychiatry, medical education, methods of ethics case consultation, the history of medicine and bioethics in the Spanish-speaking world.Dr. Fins is an associate editor of the 4th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. He sits on the editorial boards of: The Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society The Oncologist, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, BioMed Central Medical Ethics, Neuroethics, American Journal of Bioethics and Neuromodulation as well as the MIT Basic Bioethics Series.A Past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, he is a member of Board of Trustees of The Hastings Center and the International Neuroethics Society. He is a Master and past Governor of the American College of Physicians, been honored with the College’s Laureate Award and served as a trustee of the American College of Physicians Foundation. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University, which has honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award.Dr. Fins is also a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine and The Hastings Center. He was appointed to the Council of the Europaische Akademie (Germany) and is an elected member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, the American Clinical and Climatological Association and Alpha Omega Alpha.Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Clinical Professor of Nursing
Dr. Genel joined the medical school faculty in September 1971 and was Associate Dean, Government and Community Affairs at Yale School of Medicine 1985-2004. Previously he was chief of the section of pediatric endocrinology and program director of the Children's Clinical Research Center. He is the author or co-author of more than 140 original articles and has made numerous presentations at national and international scientific meetings.Dr. Genel has served at the interface between biomedical research, clinical endocrinology and public policy in many capacities. He was a member of the National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee from 2005-2008, the HHS Secretery's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections(SACHRP) from 2006-2009 and a charter member of the Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable which met from 2000-2004. He is a founder of the Connecticut Stem Cell Coalition and since 2005 has been a member of Connecticut's Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee which oversees distribution of $100 million in state funds to support embryonic stem cell research. Dr. Genel has been a consultant to the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission on issues relating to gender identity in elite athletic competition.Dr. Genel was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 1992, has been a member of its executive council since 2000 and the Academy's president for two years beginning July 2008. For twenty-seven years beginning in 1984 he directed the public affairs activities of three major pediatric academic and research societies: the American Pediatric Society, the Association of American Medical School Department Chairs and the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Genel was a member of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs for seven years, serving as its chair in l999-2000, and of the governing council of the AMA Section on Medical Schools for ten years, serving as the section's chair 2003-2004. A Distinguished Service member of the Association of American Medical Colleges(AAMC), he was chair of the AAMC's Council of Academic Societies in 1990-91. Dr. Genel is the recipient of a number of awards including the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award from the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) in 1999, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2003, the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations in 2004 and the Presidents Award for Distinguished Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2010.Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Faculty Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy Yale Law School; Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), Internal Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
bbe R. Gluck is the Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and the founding Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is also Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and a Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. From November 2020 until November 2021, she served in the Biden Administration as the lead lawyer for the White House COVID-19 Response, first for the Biden-Harris Transition and then in the White House, as Special Counsel to the White House COVID-19 Response. In that capacity, Gluck also served as a member of the White House Counsel’s Office, where she was additionally responsible for health care issues across the administration, including the Affordable Care Act. She is a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Yale Program on Addiction Medicine, an Executive Committee member of Yale’s ISPS Health program and founded and directs the Yale Law School Medical Legal Partnership Program. She joined Yale Law School in 2012, having previously served on the faculty of Columbia Law School. She is an expert on Congress and the political process, federalism, civil procedure, and health law, and is the chair emerita of Section on Legislation and the Law of the Political Process for the Association of American Law Schools. Gluck has extensive experience working as a lawyer in all levels of government. Prior to joining Columbia, she served in the administration of New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine as the special counsel and senior advisor to the New Jersey Attorney General; and in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as chief of staff and counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, senior counsel in the New York City Office of Legal Counsel, and deputy special counsel to the New York City Charter Revision Commission. Prior to law school, she worked in the U.S. Senate for Senator Paul S. Sarbanes of Maryland. Before returning to government work after law school, Professor Gluck was associated with the Paul Weiss firm in New York. She earned her B.A. from Yale University, summa cum laude, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for then-Chief Judge Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her latest books, The Trillion Dollar Revolution: How the Affordable Care Act Transformed Politics, Law, and Health Care in America, with Zeke Emanuel, and A New Deal For Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War (with Charles Fuchs) were published in March 2020 and November 2021, respectively. Gluck’s scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and many other journals. Among her most recent work is the most extensive empirical study ever conducted about the realities of the congressional law-making process (published as two articles in the Stanford Law Review); the Harvard Law Review’s Supreme Court issue comment on King v. Burwell, the 2015 challenge to the Affordable Care Act; and a study, published in the Stanford Law Review, of the state implementation of the Affordable Care Act. She is co-author of a leading Legislation casebook, and has served as co-counsel on several major health-law cases, including filing influential amicus briefs in the 2019 constitutional challenge, Texas v. Azar, King, and the 2012 ACA challenge, NFIB v. Sebelius. In 2018, Professor Gluck organized and convened the largest gathering of cancer experts in Connecticut history for a conference on The Policy, Politics and Law of Cancer. Professor Gluck currently serves on numerous boards and commissions, including as an appointed member of both the Uniform Law Commission, where she serves as Chair of the Health Law Committee and the New York State Taskforce on Life and the Law, and as an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI). She was elected to the leadership body of the ALI, the Council, in 2018. Gluck received the Law School’s teaching award in 2015.Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Director of the Center for Medical Education, YSM Administration
As associate dean for teaching and learning Dr. Hafler is professor in Pediatrics and leads the Center for Medical Education, which includes Continuing Medical Education and Evaluation and Assessment. Dr. Hafler works in Continuing Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education and Undergraduate Medical Education. She received her master's degree in education specializing in maternal and child health from Columbia University and her doctorate in Education from Harvard University. She focuses on assisting faculty, students, and residents to explore innovative ways to effectively promote learning in both the classroom and the clinical settings. Promoting, influencing and nurturing a climate in which physicians, residents and students can teach — and learn — has been foremost among her career objectives. She has focused on providing an awareness of context for students, residents and faculty, urging them to be innovative in their many teaching environments and encouraging them to explore ways to understand how they can effectively promote learning in their interactions among themselves. Dr. Hafler directs the the Master of Health Science-Medical Education Track Degree. Dr. Hafler runs an active research program applying qualitative research methods in medical education. She collaborates with and mentors clinicians and faculty on the elements of qualitative research in the field of medical education and medical care. In turn, mentored faculty members have learned to develop and demonstrate the tools necessary to effectively teach and lead others. Dr. Hafler has published over 50 book chapters, curriculum materials and original articles in medical education and clinical journals. She has served as visiting professor internationally and has been invited to present regularly at regional and national professional meetings.Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Hospital Medicine); Chair, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital Pediatric Ethics Committee, Pediatrics
As a Pediatric Hospitalist, I specialize in the care of children of all ages who are sick enough to be hospitalized for both general pediatric illnesses and more medically-complex situations which require an attending who can coordinate care and input from across different specialties.Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Dr. Illuzzi is Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Illuzzi is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed her OB/GYN residency here at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2004, she was named a Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar supported by a career development grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. In 2006, she completed a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Illuzzi’s research examines the use of obstetric interventions and their impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes, especially among low-risk women. Topics include prophylaxis to prevent vertical transmission of group B streptococcus and innovative models of maternity care. Dr. Illuzzi served as Chief of the Obstetric Specialties and Midwifery division as well as the Medical Director of the Vidone Birthing Center at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital until 2020. In the education domain, Dr. Illuzzi previously served as clerkship director and director of medical studies in OB/GYN and curriculum director for the Advanced Training Period for the MD program at YSM. She has played an active role in the YSM curriculum redesign, LCME reaccreditation cycles, and continues to be a strong advocate for students, trainees, and faculty in the educational mission of the Yale School of Medicine.Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Clerkship; Head of Advisory House, Blue 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 Yale, including the Francis Gilmore Blake award (2009), Leonard Tow Humanism award (2016) and the Leah Lowenstein Award (2018). She serves on the Yale-New Haven Health Bioethics Committee and the Resource Triage Advisory Group, has obtained additional training in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, and is immediate-past National Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Palliative Care Section. Integrating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care teaching to residents, fellows, and medical students has been a priority for Dr. Jubanyik. She has developed instructional tools to teach Palliative Care and End of Life topics to students and residents and is interested in racial and cultural disparities in patients who receive palliative and hospice care at end of life. In the covid-19 era, she has written several articles and a book to educate the lay community about the virus and the importance of advanced directives and palliative care. She continues to teach resident and student workshops devoted to recognizing and treating victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault and Harassment. Locally, she is past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of Emergency Physicians (CCEP) and is still involved on multiple Connecticut state committees. As a co-investigator, she has received grant funding from the NIH and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study emergency department initiation of palliative care.Lecturer in Biostatistics; Lecturer, Division of Health Informatics; Yale Interdisicplinary Bioethics Center Scholar; Faculty Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project, Yale Law School; Faculty Affiliate, Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy; Faculty, Program on Biomedical Ethics; Faculty, Center for Biomedical Data Science
Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, is a lecturer in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatics, Division of Health Informatics. She also is faculty at the Yale Interdisiciplinary Bioethics Center, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Yale Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, and the Yale Medical School’s Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Center for Biomedical Data Science. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose focuses on ethical, legal, social issues, and organizational issues related to health information technologies and on ethnographic and qualitative research and evaluation approaches. Dr. Kaplan’s international publications are among the most cited in these areas. Her latest writing is on digital health, telemedicine, virtual health care, personalized medicine, and health data, privacy, and AI. She is a frequent keynoter and panelist at major US and international conferences. Dr. Kaplan chaired numerous committees, including the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association working groups and task forces on consumer health informatics, vendor contracts, and ethical, legal, social, and organizational issues. She was the inaugural chair of two Yale working groups on technology and ethics. She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and received the American Medical Informatics Association President’s Award. Her B.A. is from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. are from the University of Chicago.Sherwin B. Nuland and Michael K. Vlock Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine; Chief, Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Program
Provides clinical palliative medicine to patients at Smilow Cancer Hospital. In addition, she focuses on developing a research mission in palliative medicine and expanding teaching opportunities for existing Yale faculty, staff, fellows, residents, and medical students. Has been charged with creating an ACGME certified fellowship in hospice and palliative care.Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Khoshnood is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and executive committee member at Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is Faculty Director for Humanitarian Research Lab. Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than three decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among people who use drugs and other at-risk populations. Dr. Khoshnood's research interests include: 1) epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2) research ethics and 3) humanitarian health.Professor of Surgery (Cardiac)
Dr. Gary Kopf is a Board Certified Cardiothoracic surgeon and has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of adult and pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Kopf graduated from Columbia College majoring in Physics. He received his medical degree from Harvard University (cum laude). He trained in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Children’s Hospital of Boston. Dr. Kopf spent two years at the National Institutes of Health doing research on perinatal physiology. Dr. Kopf is a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery, The Society of Thoracic Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, and the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, among many other organizations. He has been listed as one of America’s Top Doctors, New York’s Best Doctors, and America’s Top Surgeons for many years. Dr. Kopf is also interested in biomedical ethics and is a member of the Adult and Pediatric Ethics Committees at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Technology and Ethics Working Group, and the End of Life Issues Study Group at the Yale Bioethics Center. Dr. Kopf is the only surgeon in the Yale system to be awarded the certificate as a Health Ethics Consultant (HEC-C) by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities Patient Care: Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Aortic SurgeryAssistant Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology); Associate Director of Fetal Cardiology, Pediatrics
Katherine (“Katya”) is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist with expertise in cardiac imaging and fetal cardiology. After obtaining her medical degree from Ross University, she completed her pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital of Illinois and her pediatric cardiology fellowship at Arkansas Children's Hospital. She then went on to complete an advanced imaging fellowship at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital where she trained with international experts in fetal cardiology. During her fellowship, she investigated outcomes of congenital heart surgery in patients with trisomy 13 and 18. That work culminated in an important publication highlighting that congenital heart surgery improves in-hospital mortality in children with trisomy 13 and 18 (Kosiv et al, Pediatrics, 2017). She continues to engage in research with her mentor to devise recommendations for congenital heart surgery in trisomy 13 and 18. In addition, Dr. Kosiv has investigated the effect of congenital diaphragmatic hernia on the fetal heart and fetal brain and continues to be interested in the effects of non-cardiac diseases on the fetal heart such as in twin-twin transfusion syndrome and lower urinary tract obstruction. She is currently planning an investigation of the genetic predictors of left sided obstructive heart diseases such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome and aortic stenosis. She hopes that with this information in hand, cardiologists will be able to better predict which patients will go on to develop severe left sided obstruction.Professor of Anesthesiology; Vice Chair for Medical Education, Anesthesiology
Viji Kurup MD is Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale. Viji completed her Residency in Anesthesiology and Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Yale. She has been on faculty in the department since 2005 where she has developed a career as a medical educator. She has completed her fellowship in Medical Education and is currently Vice Chair for Medical Education as well as Director of the Yale Anesthesia Media Lab and the Course Director for the Anesthesia Resident Simulations. She has led the integration of the Flipped Classroom model for Anesthesia Resident Training at Yale.Viji's academic interests include participating in Global Health projects and exploring innovative ways of integrating technology in medical education. She is also the Co-Chair for the Global health and outreach committee in the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA). She has volunteered with the Health Volunteer Overseas Program (www.hvousa.org) in Vietnam. She enjoys teaching and was awarded the Faculty Award for Excellence in Education and Leadership for the Department of Anesthesiology. She is a firm believer in the importance of physician wellness and has introduced a comprehensive wellness curriculum within her department. She is the Past President of the CT State Society of Anesthesiologists and is actively involved in advocacy efforts both at the State and Federal level. She also volunteers in the community and is a regular speaker at career day for inner city schools in New Haven. She lives in Trumbull CT with her husband and two kids, and because that was clearly not keeping her busy enough, a high-maintenance cat!! In her free time, she enjoys cooking, painting (acrylic on canvas), reading and meditating..Former Associate Director
served as Associate Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics from 2002-2010. His interest in applied clinical ethics was sparked by his early experience as co-director of a then unique multi-disciplinary clinic for children with multiple congenital malformations at Yale in the mid 1960’s. As Director of the Department of Pediatrics at Bridgeport Hospital in the 1970’s (where he laid the foundation for the current Yale affiliation), he inaugurated a monthly hospital-wide session on medical ethics with Jay Katz. Later on, while serving as Director of Pediatrics at Hartford Hospital and associate chair of the academic department at UConn, he founded, and for 15 years chaired, the hospital ethics committee. Following “retirement” in 1996 he worked in the international arena under contract with the Open Society Institute organizing public health education programs in the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union, taking the opportunity to open up exploration of previously taboo issues in health care ethics. While at the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, his areas of interest have been research ethics and public health ethics. As chair of the Public Health Ethics working group, he forged a collaboration with the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness and the Connecticut Department of Public Health to assist in the development of guidelines for altered standards of care during public health emergencies. That group has recently embarked on a study of ethical aspects of planning for community resiliency to the effects of climate change on public health.Senior Research Scholar; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
Stephen R. Latham, JD, PhD is Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and UC Berkeley’s doctoral program in Jurisprudence, Latham is a former healthcare business and regulatory attorney, and served as Director of Ethics Standards at the AMA before entering academia full-time. Latham is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and has been a graduate fellow of Harvard’s Safra Center on Ethics and a Research Fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. At Yale, Latham teaches about bioethics and environmental ethics in the College, the Law School, and the School of the Environment. He chairs the Human Subjects Committee, co-chairs the Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee, and does clinical ethics consultation at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is a former board member and Secretary of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, from which he received a Distinguished Service Award in 2010. Latham's 100+ publications in bioethics and health-law have appeared in leading medical, bioethics and health-law journals.Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology
Dr. Lister is the Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale School of Medicine. He was formerly Chair of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and Chair of Pediatrics and an Associate Dean for Education at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Lister received his medical education at Yale School of Medicine. He obtained his residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and fellowship education at the University of California San Francisco, and the Cardiovascular Research institute in Pediatric Cardiology and Neonatology. He is certified in the specialties of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. He has been elected to a number of national offices including President of the Society for Pediatric Research, President of the American Pediatric Society, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Pediatrics. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Research, a Senior Editor of Rudolph’s Pediatrics textbook. He is a member of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine.Associate Professor of Surgery (Trauma); Director, Surgery Clerkship Program, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Lui is board certified in general surgery and in surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery. His clinical interests include trauma, surgical critical care, emergency and elective general surgery, re-operative surgery, sepsis and resuscitation, and shock. His research interests include shock physiology, resuscitation in trauma, pediatric trauma, and surgical infections, including necrotizing soft tissue infections, surgical education and bioethical issues in medicine.He is certified in and is an instructor of Advanced Trauma Life Support and Advanced Trauma Operative Management. He is also certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.Dr. Lui earned his undergraduate degrees in Biomedical Ethics and Biology and his medical degree from Brown University. He completed his residency in general surgery at Berkshire Medical Center, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine in Pittsfield, and was fellowship trained in trauma and surgical critical care at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore. He is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine Department of Surgery (Trauma).Dr. Lui is a member of the following organizations: Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Society for Critical Care Medicine, Surgical Infection Society, Association for Surgical Education, Connecticut Committee on Trauma, Connecticut chapter of the American College of Surgeons, and Association for Academic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.Professor Emeritus; Co-Chair, Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee; Executive Director, Human Investigation Committee
Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital; Director, Standardized Patient Program, Teaching and Learning Center; Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center, Child Study Center
Dr. Andres Martin is the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor at the Child Study Center, and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center’s Standardized Patient Program, Yale School of Medicine. He is also medical director for the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital. Dr. Martin will serve as academic advisor to the CHATogether program.Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery; Executive Vice Chair, Neurosurgery; Division Chief, Spine, Neurosurgery; Disease Center Director, Spine Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center
Dr. Ehud Mendel joined Yale in September 2021 as a Professor of Neurosurgery. He serves as the Disease Center Director of the Spine Oncology Program and member of the Executive Leadership Group at Smilow Cancer Hospital/ Yale Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital. He also serves as the Division Chief of the Spine section, Neurosurgery, and the Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Yale School of Medicine.Dr. Mendel comes to Yale from Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University (OSU) and the James Cancer Hospital Solove Research Institute, where he served as the director of the Spine Oncology Program and clinical director of the Ohio State University Spine Research Institute. While at OSU, Dr. Mendel led a multidisciplinary team that made incredible advances in oncological spine surgery. Among many things, his team pioneered a new surgical technique to reconstruct the spine following surgery to remove spinal tumors and has spent his career developing numerous spine tumors research protocols and spine surgery techniques. A true academic surgeon, Dr. Mendel comes to Yale with a wealth of experience in teaching, research, and clinical affairs. In 2006, he became the first honoree of The Justine Skestos Endowed Chair in Minimally Invasive Neurological Spinal Surgery and was recognized for his excellent contributions to education with the Lawrence Mervis, MD Teacher of the Year award in 2016. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Mendel also served as vice chair for clinical affairs and was elected by his peers to the OSU University Senate and OSU Faculty Council. An honors graduate from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Dr. Mendel also holds an MBA from The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business. He completed his residency at the University of Southern California Medical Center and a fellowship in reconstructive spinal surgery-combined neurosurgery/orthopedics at the University of Florida School of Medicine.From 2017 to 2019, he served as president of the Ohio State Neurosurgical Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a member of AOA Honor’s Society and was selected for the American Academy of Neurological Surgery.Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering
Morris specializes in using kinetic modeling and image processing to extract physiological information from dynamic PET images. His current projects include: Modeling and texture analysis to image Non-small cell lung cancer with tyrosine kinase inhibitor tracers Novel kinetic modeling to image dyskinesias in Parkinson's Continued Optimization of Dopamine Movies to study Addiction and Behavior Applying principles in functional connectivity and machine learning to analyze dopamine movies Imaging new targets in Depression, AlcoholismUsing multimodal PET to understand the opioid system in alcoholism.Creating new parametric images to speed drug discovery Morris and his group continue to refine mathematical and statistical aspects of their techniques for making "dopamine movies" of the brain. With their dopamine movies, Morris and colleague Kelly Cosgrove and their team discovered sex differences in brains of smokers smoking cigarettes (J Neurosci Dec 10, 2014).Associate Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics); Director of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Education and Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Laura J. Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, FACP is Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and an attending physician on the Yale-New Haven Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Service. She serves as Director of Palliative Medicine Education and Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Yale. Dr. Morrison received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where she also completed her internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center. She completed fellowship training in geriatrics and palliative care at Baylor College of Medicine and spent 9 years on faculty, serving as Education Director for the Supportive and Palliative Care Consultation Service at Houston Methodist Hospital from 2006-2013. She is board-certified in geriatrics and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Morrison has witnessed significant gaps in palliative care training for all clinicians and has become a passionate local and national educational leader. She aims to improve local palliative care training for health professional learners across disciplines and learner levels. Dr. Morrison continues to contribute to national work on competencies, milestones, and accreditation standards for hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training and advances in the approach to learner assessment in the field.Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Director, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Program; Director, Menopause Program
Dr. Lubna Pal is a Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Fellowship Director for the Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility fellowship program for the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Pal received her medical degree (MBBS) from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan, and postgraduate training in the United Kingdom (FRCOG) becoming pursuing subspecialty training in the United States. She received dual fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, holds a Master's degree in Clinical Research from the Yeshiva University, New York. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (United Kingdom) and of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists. Dr. Pal is a recipient of multiple awards for clinical excellence, teaching and for clinical research, has published in numerous scientific journals, is on the editorial board of reputable peer review journals in the field of Menopause, has edited multiple books in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and is recognized nationally and internationally for her commitment to reproductive wellness and patient wellbeing and for her work in the field of reproductive aging and health. Dr. Pal is board certified in Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Endocrine Society and the North American Menopause Society. Dr. Pal's clinical and research interests include female infertility, reproductive aging and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Her research has focused on improving our understanding of underpinnings to and consequences of diminished ovarian reserve in reproductive age women, and of relevance of vitamin D for reproductive physiology. She is the director of two clinical programs at Yale Reproductive Endocrinology: Program for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and the Menopause Program.Sterling Professor of Law
Robert Post is Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall). Dean Post’s subject areas are constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and equal protection. He has written and edited numerous books, includingDemocracy, Expertise, Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State (2012); For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom (with Matthew M. Finkin, 2009); Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law (with K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Thomas C. Grey, and Reva Siegel, 2001); and Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management (1995). He publishes regularly in legal journals and other publications; recent articles and chapters include “Theorizing Disagreement: Reconceiving the Relationship Between Law and Politics” (California Law Review, 2010); “Constructing the European Polity: ERTA and the Open Skies Judgments” in The Past and Future of EU Law: The Classics of EU Law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty (Miguel Poiares Maduro & Loïc Azuolai eds., 2010); “Roe Rage: Democratic Constitutionalism and Backlash” (with Reva Siegel, Harvard Civil-Rights Civil-Liberties Law Review, 2007); “Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era” (William & Mary Law Review, 2006); “Foreword: Fashioning the Legal Constitution: Culture, Courts, and Law” (Harvard Law Review, 2003); and “Subsidized Speech" (Yale Law Journal, 1996). He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has an A.B. and Ph.D. in History of American Civilization from Harvard and a J.D. from Yale Law School.URL: http://www.law.yale.edu/RPost.htmAssociate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Clinical Professor of Nursing; Director, Office of Global Health, Internal Medicine; Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health; Founding Member/Core Faculty, Women's & Gender Health Education Program, Internal Medicine; Director, Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway, Internal Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Program for Biomedical Ethics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, Internal Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director for Global and Community Health, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine; Uganda Collaboration Director, Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholars Program
Dr. Rabin is an Internist and Pediatrician who joined the Yale faculty in 2011 as a member of the Section of General Internal Medicine (YSM Department of Internal Medicine), and currently serves as the Director of the Office of Global Health, and the Associate Program Director for Global and Community Health in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program (YPC). She attends and teaches on the medical wards at the St. Raphael's Campus (SRC) of Yale-New Haven Hospital; directs care and precepts residents in the SRC Adult Primary Care Diabetes Clinic; co-directs the YPC Community Engagement Curriculum; directs the YPC Home Visit Elective; and co-directs the Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) medical education capacity building collaboration which is based at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences/Mulago National Referral & Teaching Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.Her areas of academic interest include global health education and clinical ethics, outpatient diabetes management, and health care transitions.Professor Emeritus of Therapeutic Radiology
Sara Rockwell received her B.S. in Physics in from Penn State in 1965 and her Ph.D. in Biophysics from Stanford in 1971. She received postdoctoral training as a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and as an Attache de Recherche at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France. In 1974 she joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine and is now Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pharmacology. Professor Rockwell taught radiation biology, pharmacology, cancer biology, ethics, and career development skills in several Yale courses and lecture series. Her laboratory research focused on studying the unphysiological microenvironments of cells within solid tumors, with the goal of improving the treatment of cancer. She was among the first researchers to study the effects of hypoxia on the response of malignant cells in culture and solid tumors in vivo to radiation, anticancer drugs, and combined modality therapy and among the first to consider the implications of the hypoxia found in microscopic tumors for the development and evolution of solid malignancies. The results of this research have been published in over 200 scientific publications and presented in over 250 papers at national and international scientific meetings. Professor Rockwell has received numerous awards for her educational and research activities, including election to membership in the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and selection as a Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Professor Rockwell had served on advisory panels for the NIH, DOD, NASA, OSTP and other governmental agencies, the American Cancer Society, other voluntary health organizations, and several universities. She served a two-year term as chair of the NCI Initial Review Group for Clinical Research Studies. She was an active member of several professional societies and had served on the editorial boards of five scientific journals. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Radiation Research, the official journal of the Radiation Research Society and the preeminent multidisciplinary journal in the radiation sciences. Dr. Rockwell also served as the Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs for the Yale School of Medicine. She directed the Evaluation Program for the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Yale’s CTSA), served on the executive committee of the YCCI, and represented the YCCI on several committees of the national CTSA network. She was also the Medical School’s representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Research and Development. In addition, she served as Yale University’s designated Faculty Representative to the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) and recently completed a term as the chair of the FDP faculty committee and vice chair of the FDP.Associate Clinical Professor; Assistant Clinical Professor, Surgery, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Dr. Aron Rose is a comprehensive ophthalmologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma and cataract. He has authored numerous articles in the peer-reviewed literature, consulted for surgical and pharmaceutical industry, cared for patients and taught physicians throughout the developing world, where he has a keen interest in the treatment and prevention of blindness. Dr. Rose is also a long time faculty member of the Yale Multidisciplinary Center for Bioethics where he teaches a seminar in Global Health Ethics.- Julie R. Rosenbaum went to medical school at Yale University and completed internal medicine residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She also completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University School of Medicine, where she currently is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine. In addition to seeing her own patients, she teaches residents in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency. She directs the annual Workshop on Professional Responsibility for the medicine interns as well as the Program on Women in Medicine for the residency. She continues to teach ethics and professionalism topics, as well as health policy and advocacy. Dr Rosenbaum also co-directs the Yale Primary Care Residency Community Engagement Curriculum. She currently serves on the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee and has also been appointed to the ACP Committee for the MKSAP 18 General Internal Medicine Revision. Dr. Rosenbaum has worked with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation on a project evaluating the impact of the hidden curriculum on medical education, focusing on transitions between different care environments. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Office-based Medicine Curriculum, an ambulatory curriculum used in about 200 residencies across the U.S. She has also developed a career planning website for internal medicine residents called Beyond Residency.
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Stanley H. Rosenbaum was Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, and Surgery, the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and the Section Chief of Perioperative and Adult Anesthesia at Yale New Haven Hospital until 2021. Dr. Rosenbaum received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1973. Subsequently, he completed a residency in Internal Medicine followed by a residency in Anesthesiology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Rosenbaum is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine. Since joining Yale’s faculty in 1987, he has served on numerous local and national groups involved in medical ethics and has received a Presidential Citation for Outstanding Contributions from the Society of Critical Care Medicine and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, in recognition of his medical accomplishments.Professor Emeritus of Nursing; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor, School of Nursing and Yale Child Study Center
Lois S. Sadler, PhD, RN, FAAN is a Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scientist/Scholar at the Yale University School of Nursing. Dr. Sadler received her BSN degree from the University of Massachusetts and her MSN degree from Yale University School of Nursing (YSN). She received her PhD from the UCONN School of Family Studies in 1997. Professor Sadler has taught at the master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral levels, including course content in the areas of family studies, child and family development, pediatric health promotion, adolescent health, qualitative research, research ethics, intervention development, philosophy of science, and knowledge development in nursing science. She has practiced clinically as a pediatric nurse practitioner and has conducted research with adolescent parents and young families in diverse communities, school settings, home visiting, and primary health care settings. At YSN, she held a variety of academic leadership positions in addition to her research and teaching. Dr. Sadler’s NIH-funded research is in the areas of the transition to parenthood among adolescent parents and their families, adolescent pregnancy prevention, health equity, pediatric sleep, and evaluation of specialized support programs for young parents and children. In 2001 along with Drs. Arietta Slade and Linda Mayes, Dr. Sadler co-founded the home visiting program, Minding the BabyTM. Along with colleagues and community partners, she tested and implemented the program in the US, Scotland, England, Brazil, and Denmark. A full implementation and clinical trial is underway in 8 communities in Denmark.Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Vice Chair for Global Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience; Member, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health
Dr. Steven Schiff is a pediatric neurosurgeon with interests in neural control engineering, sustainable health engineering and global health. He founded the Center for Neural Engineering at Penn State University, wrote the first book on Neural Control Engineering (MIT Press, 2012), and is now developing the Center for Global Neurosurgery at Yale University. He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer and Transformative Awards in 2015 and 2018, respectively, which have enabled him to pursue his interests in the sustainable control of infant infections in the developing world. This work has evolved into an exploration of what Schiff calls Predictive Personalized Public Health (P3H), and included leading the discovery of a new highly lethal infant brain disease in Africa - Neonatal Paenibacilliosis.Associate Dean for Curriculum; Director of Innovation in Medical Education, MD Program; Emeritus Associate Professor, Neuroscience; Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience; Director, Medical Studies, Neuroscience
Associate Professor Adjunct of Medicine (General Medicine); Deputy Leader, Health Equity Thread, Office of Education; Course Director, Populations & Methods: the Application of Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Public Health, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Shenson is Associate Professor Adjunct, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, and Associate Clinical Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health. Since 2007, Dr. Shenson has directed the Yale School of Medicine's (YSM) course "Populations & Methods: The Application of Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Public Health," which runs over 12-months in the YSM pre-clinical curriculum. Dr. Shenson is also Deputy Leader of the YSM Health Equity Thread, which develops and helps implement curricular content focused on health equity and social justice. Dr. Shenson directs Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC), a nonprofit agency dedicated to expanding the population-wide use of disease prevention services. As part of his work at SPARC, Dr. Shenson leads the Vote & Vax program, which is developing and testing a national strategy to provide influenza vaccinations at polling places. Dr. Shenson has led numerous research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better characterize the provision of vaccinations and cancer screening to older Americans. He is a co-founder of the medical humanitarian organization, Doctors of the World USA (now HealthRight International), and founder of the Human Rights Clinic at Montefiore Medical Center, the first clinic in New York City to attend exclusively to the documentation and service needs of survivors of torture. He is a board member of the International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA2), which focuses on health issues of concern to elder American Indians.- Jay Sicklick began as a staff attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy and founded the first collaborative Medical-Legal Partnership in the country in April 2000. Prior to this appointment, he served on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he held the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, teaching lawyering skills, and social welfare law. Mr. Sicklick also served as a senior staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society’s Bronx Neighborhood Office for six years, as well as a private practitioner in Boston. He currently holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he teaches courses in legal ethics and professional responsibility and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.Mr. Sicklick is a graduate of Colgate University and Boston College Law School. He is the author of several publications, including Adolescent Health Care: The Legal Rights of Teens (5th ed), and has spoken at numerous conferences and hospital sponsored Grand Rounds on legal-health related topics.
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary); Program Director, Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program
Dr. Siegel graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1988 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He was a Pulmonary & Critical Care fellow at Yale from 1992-95 and has been a full time Yale faculty member since then. Dr. Siegel is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. He was previously co-chair of the Hospital Bioethics committee. His major clinical focus is in the Intensive Care unit and he attends in the MICU and on the General Internal Medicine services. Dr. Siegel serves on the Editorial Boards of Critical Care Medicine, Chest, and the American Journal of Medicine. He is the recipient of several teaching awards and has participated in several multi-center trials investigating new therapies for the treatment of critical illness. He currently serves as Program Director of the Yale Traditional Internal Medicine Residency.Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Biomedical Engineering, of Medicine (Hematology) and of Pediatrics; Deputy Dean for Research, (Clinical and Translational); Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine; Chair, Laboratory Medicine; Chief, Laboratory Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital
Brian R. Smith MD is Deputy Dean for Clinical and Translational Research at the Yale School of Medicine, as well as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Co-PI of Yale's CTSA Award), Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale University. He is the Chief of Laboratory Medicine and Attending Physician at Yale New Haven Hospital and also an attending physician at the Connecticut VA Medical Center and the Bridgeport Hospital.Dr. Smith received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, his medical degree from the Harvard Medical School, and his residency/fellowship training at The Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Center. He is board certified in Pathology / Hematopathology and in Internal Medicine / Hematology-Oncology. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Smith has an investigative interest in the inflammation-hemostasis interface, especially in relation to biomaterials, as well as in cellular immunotherapeutics, with over 175 publications. His work extends from basic wet bench research through clinical and epidemiological trials (T1-T4). He has been continuously funded by the NIH at the PI-level for over 35 years. In these various roles, Dr. Smith has major administrative responsibility for the School’s research enterprise across the T1-T4 spectrum, as well as educational responsibilities across the scientific pipeline from STEM high school student programs through undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate training, for MDs, PhDs, and MD/PhDs. He is the initiator and long-standing PI of Laboratory Medicine’s post-doctoral T32 training program in Immunohematology and has personally mentored over 50 MD, MD/PhD, and PhD trainees, most of whom hold tenure-track positions at major research universities. In addition to directing trainees in bench and translational research, Dr. Smith has extensive experience in the didactic aspects of comprehensive training and career development for clinician-scientists, having developed and published curricula in Laboratory Medicine, developed and published new physician-scientist training paradigms in his field, and, in his capacity as the Chair of the Research Committee for the Association of Pathology Chairs, initiated and helped negotiate a dialogue with the American Board of Pathology that, with the work of many other Chairs of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, resulted in the adoption of a specific Physician-Scientist residency pathway by the Board. Similarly, through his research experience, dean position, and appointment in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he is very involved with all aspects of PhD training at both the pre- and post-doctoral levels. He has been an invited lecturer on Bioethics and previously served on the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. Dr. Smith has also played a significant role in gender equity initiatives at Yale. In addition, he has overseen the implementation of research core facilities in Translational Immune Monitoring, Flow Cytometry, and Clinical Sample Real Time Acquisition, chairs the Clinical Research Technology Committee, and has been a guiding member of a Cellular Therapy core resource, all of which have been used successfully by Yale investigators as well as by investigators from other universities.Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Dr. Andre Sofair is a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale Medical School and holds a secondary appointment in the School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. He went to medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1986) and completed his Master’s in Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health in 1997. He is an attending physician and Firm Chief at Yale New-Haven Hospital. He is also a lead organizer for the medical chief residency program at the University of Rwanda. In addition to leading many studies in hepatitis and clinical care, he has lectured widely on biomedical ethics and eugenic sterilization. He serves as co-director of the viral hepatitis clinic at the St. Raphael Campus.Associate Professor of Neurology
Dr. Tolchin is Director of the Center for Bioethics at Yale New Haven Health, and Associate Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine. His research focus is on the impact of crisis standards of care and triage protocols on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic health disparities. In addition, Dr. Tolchin has a clinical and research focus on functional neurological disorders and epilepsy. He investigates the use of motivational interviewing, smartphone apps, and other novel behavioral and technological interventions to improve treatment adherence and outcomes for patients. Dr. Tolchin completed medical school at Harvard University, neurology residency at Columbia University Medical Center, and fellowships in medical ethics, clinical neurophysiology, and epilepsy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research has been recognized with Young Investigator Awards from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Epilepsy Society, the Rebecca Goldberg Kaufman Honor from the American Epilepsy Society (AES), the Emerging Leaders Fellowship from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the OHER Award for Yale Research Excellence, and the Epilepsia Clinical Science Prize from the International League Against Epilepsy. Dr. Tolchin is President of the New England Epilepsy Society, and a Fellow of the AAN and of the AES. He serves on the AAN's Guidelines Subcommittee and Ethics, Law, and Humanities Committee. Follow Dr. Tolchin on Twitter @btolchin.Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History; Chair, History of Medicine
John Harley Warner, a historian who focuses on the transnational history of medicine and science, received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Harvard University (History of Science), and from 1984-1986 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. In 1986 he joined the Yale faculty with a primary appointment in the School of Medicine, where he is now Avalon Professor and Chair of the Section of the History of Medicine with a fully split faculty appointment in the Department of History. He is a professor and core faculty member in the Yale University Program in the History of Medicine and Science and professor of American Studies. His research interests include the cultural and social history of medicine in the United States from the early 19th century to the present, and transnational and transcultural comparison. Hi is particularly interested in the history of medical education, professional identity, clinical practice, and the visual cultures of medicine.Current projects include Bedside Stories: Clinical Narrative and the Grounding of Modern Medicine, and The Death of James Jackson, Jr. and the Birth of the American Clinic. My current research and writing centers on a book titled The Quest for Authenticity in Modern Medicine, which traces anxieties about what was being marginalized, lost, or placed at risk of being lost with the late-nineteenth century emergence of a new version of reductionist, laboratory-based scientific medicine, and explores maneuvers of selective return and restoration from that time through the present.Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry; Clinical Associate Professor Adjunct of Law, Yale Law School
Tobias Wasser, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct) in the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Yale School of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Law (Adjunct) in the Yale Law School. Dr. Wasser is a clinician-educator whose scholarly work focuses on research, education, and leadership at the intersections of forensic and public-sector mental health systems. He currently serves as the Chair of Psychiatry at Quinnipiac University's Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine and Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health for Hartford Healthcare's Fairfield Region.Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Director of Didactic Education, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Course Director, Prevention, Population & Patient-Centered Medicine, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Chair, Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Course Director, Endocrinology, Internal Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Chair, AAPA Commission on Continuing Professional Development & Education, Medical Education, American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA)
Jonathan is assistant professor of medicine, director of didactic education and course director for prevention, populations and patient-centered medicine in the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program. He has practiced internal medicine in the Yale New Haven Health and Yale University health systems for 26 years. He currently practices at the Yale Medicine Diabetes Center, the joint clinical practice of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System. He works with medically complex patients on diabetes management specializing on the integration of diabetes technologies and personalized lifestyle medicine. Previously, he practiced as a hospitalist, primary care, urgent care and athletic medicine clinician. Throughout his career, Jonathan has remained active in PA education, program administration and leadership. Chief academic interests and expertise include chronic disease management, lifestyle medicine, comprehensive wellness, psychosocial communication, ethically vulnerable populations and health equity. He has remained committed to advocacy and professional service. As past chair of legislative affairs for the CT Academy of PAs, he has been responsible for leading major health care reform efforts resulting in modernization of the PA Practice Act and improved patient care for CT residents. He is the recipient of several awards for his clinical service, teaching and professional service including recognition as a distinguished fellow by the American Academy of Physician Associates. Major responsibilities as Director of Didactic Education include: Development, coordination & delivery of academic curriculum Maintenance of national accreditation standards Course Director of Prevention, Populations & Patient-Centered Medicine master course Academic advisor & mentor to graduate medical studentsParticipation in School of Medicine & Program committees: Diversity, Admissions, Curriculum & Educational Policy, Academic Progress & Program AssessmentProfessor Emeritus of Psychiatry
When Howard Zonana, MD, first became interested in forensic psychiatry, there was little connection between law and psychiatry in the City of New Haven, the State of Connecticut, or the Yale campus. In the mid-1970's, Dr. Zonana joined up with Marc Rubenstein and Lansing Crane, who were trying to create a forensic psychiatry program. They created the Yale Law and Psychiatry Division. The Division is part of the Yale School of Medicine Psychiatry Department and Connecticut Mental Health Center. It is made up of four sections – forensic services, the New Haven Court Clinic, the Jail Diversion Program and research and scholarship. The staff includes licensed psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and social workers as well as a training program in Forensic Psychiatry with funding for four fellows chosen annually through a competitive selection process. The work focuses on evaluations for the courts in civil and criminal matters, e.g. competency, criminal responsibility, pre-sentence evaluations, psychic harm.Dr. Zonana also chaired the YNHH Bioethics Committee for over 15 years and remains a member of the Committee. He also has an Adjunct Appt at Yale Law School and consults to Clinics there, such as the Immigration, Veterans, and Criminal Clinics where law students under supervision, represent clients. He also works with the American Psychiatric Assn. on the Council of Psychiatry and the Law and Judicial Action Committee.
Physician Associate Program
Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Director of the Physician Associate Program; Program Director, General Internal Medicine; Chair of Admissions, General Internal Medicine
Management of all aspects of the Physician Associate Program Maintain ARC-PA accreditation standards for the program Assist the didactic and clinical faculty with curriculum and exam developmentChair of the Admissions CommitteeLecturer in Patient Assessment I and Practice, Policy and Ethics coursesSmall group facilitator for history taking, physical examination, communicating difficult news and shared decision making workshops for PA and medical studentsCo-Director and Section Leader for the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) integrating pre-clinical training for first-year PA, medical and advanced practice nursing students.Academic advisor for PA students Clinical practice with the Hospitalist Service at Yale New Haven HospitalAssistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Associate Director of Clinical Education, Physician Associate Program
Develop and assess the clinical curriculumMaintain accreditation standards for clinical curriculum Lecture in and teach transitional skills, pediatric lectures, ultrasound, simulation, procedural competencies Academic advisement of students Clinical experience as a PA in the Pediatric Emergency Department at Yale New Haven HospitalAssistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Director of Clinical Education, Physician Associate Program; Associate Program Director, Yale Physician Associate Program
Courtney Fankhanel joined the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program faculty in 2016 and is currently an Assistant Professor. She is the director of clinical education as well as serves as course director of EKG, surgical skills, transition, and callback curriculum. Courtney is a physician assistant who graduated with an MMSc from Yale Physician Associate Program in 2008. She has been practicing clinically in cardiac surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital since 2009. Her academic role includes: Develop and assess the clinical curriculumMaintain accreditation standards for clinical curriculumMaintain, evaluate, and collaborate with clinical partnersLecturer and workshop leader for intro to surgery, transitional skills, cardiology didactics, EKG course, ultrasound, simulation, procedural competencies.Academic advisement of studentsCommittee member on Admissions, Program Assessment, and Educational Policy and Curriculum Clinical experience as a Cardiac Surgery PA at Yale New Haven Hospital in both the surgical and critical care setting.Associate Dean for PA Education and Associate Professor (General Medicine, PA Program)
Alexandria (Xandi) Garino serves as the Associate Dean for PA Education at the Yale School of Medicine in support of both the Physician Associate Program and the Physician Assistant Online Program. Committed to the education of competent and compassionate PA leaders, Xandi brings 20+ years of program innovation, curriculum development, student assessment, and program evaluation to her role. She has served as a national leader for faculty development workshops designed to transition clinicians into new roles as educators. She teaches various topics in medicine, clinical skills, behavioral medicine, research methods, and motivational interviewing. Xandi’s clinical expertise is in oncology and she most recently cared for patients at the Yale Cancer Center on the malignant hematology service for 10 years. She graduated from Catholic Medical Center’s PA Program in 1999 and earned a MS in biostatistics and clinical research design at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She earned a PhD in Learning Science at Fordham University in 2018. Leveraging the theories of self-regulated learning and motivation, she strives to understand the attitudinal, motivational, and situational factors that impact learning.Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Faculty Director, Research Education, General Internal Medicine; Associate Director, Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership, Yale School of Management; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Faculty Director, Workforce Development and Diversity, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor; Program Director, Collaborative Behavioral Health & Addiction Medicine in Primary Care (CHAMP), Program in Addiction Medicine; Associate Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program; Program Director, Substance Use Skills Training to Advance Integrated Care (SUSTAIN), Program in Addiction Medicine; Medical Director, Physician Associate Program; Medical Director, Physician Assistant Online Program
Kenneth Morford, MD is an Assistant Professor and clinician educator at Yale School of Medicine. He trained as a general internist in the Yale Primary Care Residency Program, served as chief resident, and completed addiction medicine fellowship at Yale. He provides primary care and addiction treatment at a community-based opioid treatment program and cares for patients on the addiction medicine consult service at Yale New Haven Hospital. He directs two HRSA-funded interprofessional addiction training programs, called CHAMP and SUSTAIN. He also serves as an associate program director for the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program and medical director of the Yale Physician Associate Program and Yale Physician Assistant Online Program. He is passionate about medical education, interprofessional collaboration, substance use disorders research, and integrating addiction medicine into primary care.Manager, Alumni Engagement, Physician Associate Program
Rita served on the Faculty for 14 years as Director of Clinical Education. In 2021, she retired from her faculty position and now serves as the Manager for Alumni Engagement.Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Director of Didactic Education, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Course Director, Prevention, Population & Patient-Centered Medicine, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Chair, Educational Policy and Curriculum Committee, Department of Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Course Director, Endocrinology, Internal Medicine, Physician Associate Program; Chair, AAPA Commission on Continuing Professional Development & Education, Medical Education, American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA)
Jonathan is assistant professor of medicine, director of didactic education and course director for prevention, populations and patient-centered medicine in the Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program. He has practiced internal medicine in the Yale New Haven Health and Yale University health systems for 26 years. He currently practices at the Yale Medicine Diabetes Center, the joint clinical practice of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System. He works with medically complex patients on diabetes management specializing on the integration of diabetes technologies and personalized lifestyle medicine. Previously, he practiced as a hospitalist, primary care, urgent care and athletic medicine clinician. Throughout his career, Jonathan has remained active in PA education, program administration and leadership. Chief academic interests and expertise include chronic disease management, lifestyle medicine, comprehensive wellness, psychosocial communication, ethically vulnerable populations and health equity. He has remained committed to advocacy and professional service. As past chair of legislative affairs for the CT Academy of PAs, he has been responsible for leading major health care reform efforts resulting in modernization of the PA Practice Act and improved patient care for CT residents. He is the recipient of several awards for his clinical service, teaching and professional service including recognition as a distinguished fellow by the American Academy of Physician Associates. Major responsibilities as Director of Didactic Education include: Development, coordination & delivery of academic curriculum Maintenance of national accreditation standards Course Director of Prevention, Populations & Patient-Centered Medicine master course Academic advisor & mentor to graduate medical studentsParticipation in School of Medicine & Program committees: Diversity, Admissions, Curriculum & Educational Policy, Academic Progress & Program Assessment
MD-PhD Program
C. N. H. Long Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology
Dr. Aronson received his undergraduate education at the University of Rochester and his medical education at New York University. He was an internal medicine resident at the University of North Carolina and a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health before coming to Yale as a nephrology fellow in 1974. He joined the Yale faculty in 1977, and was Chief of the Section of Nephrology from 1987-2002. Dr. Aronson has published articles and book chapters on the mechanisms regulating sodium, chloride, acid-base, and oxalate excretion by the kidney. He has received several awards and honors for his research work, including the Young Investigator Award of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and American Heart Association in 1985, the Homer W. Smith Award of the ASN in 1994, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, the Robert W. Berliner Award of the American Physiological Society (APS) in 2016, and the Walter B. Cannon Award of the APS in 2019. He served as President of the American Society of Nephrology in 2008. Dr. Aronson actively participates in the teaching of undergraduate, graduate and medical students. He was a co-recipient of the Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Prize in the Basic Sciences in 2005, and received the Fund for Physician-Scientist Mentorship Award in 2023. Dr. Aronson is an Associate Director of the Yale M.D.-Ph.D. Program.Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program
Michael Cappello MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, and Professor of Pediatrics and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale Medical School. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Biomedical Ethics and received his MD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. After training in adult and Pediatric infectious diseases at Yale, Dr. Cappello joined the faculty in 1995, where he oversees a laboratory and field based research program focused on global health, tropical medicine and molecular parasitology. He is a 2007 recipient of the Bailey K. Ashford medal, awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene “for distinguished work in tropical medicine.” In addition to research, Dr. Cappello provides clinical care as an Infectious Diseases specialist at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is co-founder of the Yale Partnerships for Global Health, an initiative that advances scientific knowledge, promotes international understanding, and builds human capacity through collaborative research and training. From 2007-15, Dr. Cappello directed the Yale World Fellows Program, a multi-disciplinary, campus-wide initiative whose mission is to cultivate and inspire a global network of leaders committed to positive change. From 2016-21, he chaired the Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and was faculty director of the Yale Africa Initiative. Dr. Cappello is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Associate Director, MD/PHD Program; Director, Newington VA Pulmonary Clinic, Medicine, VA Connecticut Health System
Henry J. and Joan W. Binder Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Cell Biology; Director Investigated Gastroenterology NIH T32, Internal Medicine; Deputy Director, MD-PhD Program
After completing medical school and internal medicine training at the University of Missouri, Dr. Gorelick trained at Yale in Gastroenterology. After his clinical training, he began basic science training with Dr. James Jamieson at Yale. During that period he described calcium-calmodulin dependent protein kinase II and subsequently worked with Dr. Paul Greengard (Rockefeller University) to examine the enzyme's mechanism of activation, a response critical to neuronal memory. His later work has focused on the mechanisms of acute pancreatits and how digestive enzymes, such as trypsin, are activated within the pancreas during this disease. Dr. Gorelick sees patients with gastrointestinal diseases at the VAMC in West Haven, CT. He is also the Deputy Director for the Yale physician Scientist program and directs a year-long course for the group that links basic science to clinical disease. He has also been the Director of the Yale Program in Investigative Gastroenterology for over 10 years. His laboratory at the VA studies the molecular mechanisms related to acute pancreatitis with a goal of developing tools that prevent or lessen disease.Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry; Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR); Associate Director, MD-PhD Program
Dr. Higley studied behavioral neuroscience at Cornell University. He then completed his MD and PhD in the MSTP Program and the laboratory of Dr. Diego Contreras at the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his scientific training as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Bernardo Sabatini at Harvard Medical School. In 2010, Dr. Higley joined the faculty of the Yale Department of Neuroscience and the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, and Repair (CNNR). He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020. He has received numerous honors for his research, including a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Klingenstein Fellowship, and most recently the NIH Director's Pioneer Award. Dr. Higley has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is a member of the Wu Tsai Institute. He also serves as an Associate Director for the Yale MD-PhD Program.Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation M.D.-Ph.D. Program Director and Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Professor, Microbial Pathogenesis; Director, MD-PhD Program, Yale University
Dr. Kazmierczak received her PhD from Rockefeller University (1993) and her MD from Cornell University Medical College (1994), both in New York City. She completed an Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco, and joined the Yale faculty in 2001. She is currently a Professor of Medicine and Microbial Pathogenesis, and Director of the MD-PhD program at Yale. Dr. Kazmierczak's research program is broadly focused on bacterial and host factors that allow opportunistic infections to occur. Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a clinically relevant model, her lab addresses fundamental questions of how cell-envelope spanning bacterial machines - the Type 3 secretion system, Type 4 pili and polar flagellum - are assembled, regulated, and used during infection. She has also identified host responses directed at components of these virulence associated structures, in particular those mediated by the NLRC4 inflammasome. Inflammatory responses to bacteria are also a focus of her work on microbiome-host interactions in infants with Cystic Fibrosis, where her lab has used longitudinal data acquired over five years from cohorts of patients and controls to understand gut microbiome composition and the inflammatory and metabolic responses at this site. Dr. Kazmierczak has been recognized as a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases (2007), a Donaghue Investigator (2002), and a Hellman Family Fellow (2002). She is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Academy for Microbiology.Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience; Deputy Director, MD-PhD Program
Dr. Angeliki Louvi (PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 1997) is Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience, Deputy Director of the MD-PhD Program, and member of the Yale Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP) and the Yale Program on Neurogenetics. She is interested in understanding how the perturbation of basic biological processes leads to clinically significant brain pathology. Her laboratory investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cerebrovascular and structural brain disorders associated with specific genetic lesions.Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, of Genetics and of Neuroscience
Michael Nitabach JD, PhD is faculty member of Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology, and Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. He is affiliated with the Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair. He received a PhD from Columbia University and a JD from New York University.Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Associate Cancer Center Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Therapeutic Radiology; Associate Director, Yale MD-PhD Program; Director, Yale BioMed Amgen Scholars Program
Associate Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) and of Pathology; Associate Director, Yale MD-PhD Program; Director, Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program
Silvia Vilarinho is a physician-scientist who uses genetics, genomics and human samples to investigate the molecular basis of various liver diseases of unknown etiology. Using these approaches, we have identified five novel genetic liver diseases. Our research goal is to continue to discover new genes important in liver function both in health and disease and to use cell biology and animal models to determine the specific mechanism(s) linking mutant gene to disease as a roadmap to further understand and treat rare and common liver diseases. This research approach provides new knowledge with direct impact in improving patient care and creates an outstanding scientific environment to train future physician-scientists and trainees with particular interest in human disease. Furthermore, I am very committed to make ‘genomic medicine for liver disease’ a reality in clinical practice worldwide.
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Associate Director of Financial Aid
Associate Director Financial Aid, Yale School of Medicine
Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid
Professor of Pediatrics (Neurology); Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid; Director, START Program
Laura R. Ment, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, Yale University School of Medicine. A graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Ment received her training in both pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.Her clinical interests include neonatal brain injury in both preterm and term infants, including intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular white matter injury, neonatal seizures, stroke and neurogenetic developmental disorders. Dr. Ment also evaluates and cares for patients with developmental delay, epilepsy and neurogenetic disorders.A former member of the NANDS Council of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH and Chair of its Clinical Trial Subcommittee, Dr. Ment’s research interests include adaptive mechanisms of developing brain. She was the principal investigator of two multicenter clinical studies exploring prevention of injury in preterm neonates, the long-term neurodevelopmental and neuroimaging sequelae of preterm birth and the genetic mechanisms responsible for these changes. Her magnetic resonance studies investigate neural connectivity in the preterm brain and typically developing fetus across the third trimester of gestation, and her most recent work employs state of the art MR imaging and emerging molecular technologies to identify sensitive, reliable and actionable biomarkers of growth and maturation of the developing brain.Application Processing Questions
Senior Administrative Assistant-YSM Financial Aid; Senior Administrator, YSM Department of Education
Academic Advisors
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Clerkship; Head of Advisory House, Blue 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 Yale, including the Francis Gilmore Blake award (2009), Leonard Tow Humanism award (2016) and the Leah Lowenstein Award (2018). She serves on the Yale-New Haven Health Bioethics Committee and the Resource Triage Advisory Group, has obtained additional training in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, and is immediate-past National Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Palliative Care Section. Integrating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care teaching to residents, fellows, and medical students has been a priority for Dr. Jubanyik. She has developed instructional tools to teach Palliative Care and End of Life topics to students and residents and is interested in racial and cultural disparities in patients who receive palliative and hospice care at end of life. In the covid-19 era, she has written several articles and a book to educate the lay community about the virus and the importance of advanced directives and palliative care. She continues to teach resident and student workshops devoted to recognizing and treating victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault and Harassment. Locally, she is past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of Emergency Physicians (CCEP) and is still involved on multiple Connecticut state committees. As a co-investigator, she has received grant funding from the NIH and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study emergency department initiation of palliative care.Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Head of Advisory House, Gold House, Office of Student Affairs
As a clinician-educator based at the VA primary care clinic, I spend the majority of my time providing primary care for my panel of veterans. I enjoy caring for this remarkably complex population and feel fortunate that my position also allows me the opportunity for collegial learning and teaching with residents and medical students in the inpatient setting and in clinic. Over the past decade, I have become more involved with undergraduate medical education at the Yale School of Medicine, mainly through the Clinical Skills Committee and teaching small groups of medical students on various topics ranging from Professionalism to Intimate Partner Violence. I lead the Problem-Focused Patient Examination Workshop, an extremely well-received workshop during the Primary Care/Psychiatry clerkship which uses role play to teach all third year medical students how to do a focused visit. Due to my background in clinical skills and assessment, I was selected to serve as a Clinical Assessment Coach focusing on direct observation and formative feedback and have used these skills as Director of Remediation for Yale Medical students and now as an Academic Advisor in the Office of Student Affairs at the School of Medicine. My academic interests have always been grounded in medical education, and include undergraduate medical education, clinical skills teaching, coaching and remediation.Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (Colon and Recta); Head of Advisory House, Red House, Office of Student Affairs
Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine; Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine; Head of Advisory House, Green House, Office of Student Affairs
Research Interests: Dr. O’Connor has focused his research on the interface between primary care and addiction medicine. This has included research examining the transfer of addiction treatment strategies from “specialty” settings to primary care and other general medical settings. His publications in this area include studies on the management of opioid withdrawal in primary care settings, opioid maintenance in primary care, and the use of naltrexone for treating alcohol dependence in primary care patients. He has been active in medical education on addiction both nationally and internationally and has served as the President of The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance use and Addiction (AMERSA) and of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and The Addiction Medicine Foundation. Selected Recent Publications:O’Connor, PG. Brief Interventions for Problem Drinking: Another Piece of the Puzzle. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007; 146(3):223-225. Martell BA, O’Connor PG, Kerns RD, Becker WC, Morales KH, Kosten TR, and Fiellin DA. Systematic Review: Opioid treatment for chronic back pain: prevalence, efficacy and association with addiction. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007; 146:116-127. Sledge, WH, Brown, KE, Levine, JM, Fiellin, DA, Chawarski, M, White, WD, O’Connor, PG. A Randomized Trial of Primary Intensive Care to Reduce Hospital Admissions in Patients with High Utilization of Inpatient Services. Disease Management. 2006; 9(6)328-338. O’Connor PG. Problem Drinkers: Find Them, Keep Them, Don’t Lose Them, Treat Them. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005; 20(1):96-97. D’Onofrio G, MS; Pantalon MV, Degutis LC, Fiellin DA, O’Connor PG. Development and Implementation of an Emergency Practitioner-Performed Brief Intervention for Harmful and Hazardous Drinkers in the Emergency Department. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2005; 12(3):249-256. O’Connor PG. Methods of Detoxification and Their Role in Managing Patients With Opioid Dependence. JAMA. 2005; 294(8):961-963. Sullivan LE, Fiellin DA, O’Connor PG. The prevalence and impact of alcohol problems in major depression: A systematic review. American Journal ofMedicine. 2005; 118(4):330-341. Kernan WE, Holmboe E, O’Connor PG. Assessing the teaching behaviors of ambulatory care preceptors. Academic Medicine. 2004; 79(11):1088-1094. O’Malley S, Rounsaville BJ, Farren C, Namkoong K, Wu R, Robinson J, O’Connor PG. Initial and Maintenance Naltrexone for Alcohol dependence using primary care vs. specialty care: A nested sequence of three randomized trials. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2003; 163(14):1695-1704. Kosten T, O’Connor PG. Current Concepts: Management of Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(18):1786-1795. Reid MC, Engles-Horton LL, Weber MB, Kerns RD, Rogers EL, O’Connor PG. Use of opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain syndromes in primary care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002; 17(3):173-9. O’Connor PG. Treating opioid dependence—new data and new opportunities. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2000; 343(18):1332-4. Fiellin DA, Reid MC, O’Connor PG. Screening for alcohol problems in primary care: A systematic review. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000; 160(13):1977-89. O’Connor PG, Fiellin DA. Pharmacologic treatment of heroin-dependent patients. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000; 133(1):40-54. D’Onofrio G, Fiellin DA, Pantalon MV, Chawarski MC, Owens P, Degutis LC, Busch SH, Bernstein SL, O’Connor PG. A brief intervention reduces hazardous and harmful drinking in emergency department patients. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2012, 60:181-192. PMID: 22459448. Moore BA, Barry DT, Sullivan LE, O'Connor PG, Cutter CJ, Schottenfeld RS, Fiellin DA.Counseling and directly observed medication for primary care buprenorphine maintenance: a pilot study. Journal of Addiction Medicine 2012, 6(3):205-211. PMID: 22614936. Tetrault JM, Moore BA, Barry DT, O’Connor PG, Schottenfeld R, Fiellin DA, Fiellin LE. Brief versus extended counseling along with buprenorphone/naloxone for HIV-infected opioid dependent patients. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 2012, 43(4):433-439. PMID: 22938914. Fiellin DA, Barry DT, Sullivan LE, Cutter CJ, Moore BA, O’Connor PG, Schottenfeld RS. A randomized trial of cognitive behavioral therapy in primary care-based buprenorphine. American Journal of Medicine 2013, 126(1):74-9. PMID: 23260506. O’Connor PG. Managing substance dependence as a chronic disease: is the glass half full or half empty? JAMA 2013, 310(11):1132-4. PMID: 24045739. Edelman EJ, Chantarat T, Caffrey S, Chaudhry A, O'Connor PG, Weiss L, Fiellin DA, Fiellin LE. The impact of buprenorphine/naloxone treatment on HIV risk behaviors among HIV-infected, opioid-dependent patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2014, 139:79-85. PMID: 24726429. Gueorguieva R, Wu R, O’Connor PG, Weisner C, Fucito LM, Hoffman S, Mann K, O’Malley SS. Predictors of abstinence from heavy drinking during treatment in COMBINE and external validation in PREDICT. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 2014, 38(10):2647-2656. PMID: 25346505. O’Connor PG, Sokol RJ, D’Onofrio G. Addiction medicine: the birth of a new discipline. JAMA Internal Medicine 2014, 174(11):1717-1718. PMID: 25201642. Fiellin DA, Schottenfeld, RS, Cutter CJ, Moore BA, Barry DT, O’Connor PG. Primary care–based buprenorphine taper vs maintenance therapy for prescription opioid dependence: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine 2014, 174(12):1947-54. PMID: 25330017 Tetrault JM, O’Connor PG. Unhealthy alcohol use, including alcohol use disorder: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, course assessment, and diagnosis. UpToDate 20 Bagley S, Peterson J, Cheng DM, Jose C, Quinn E, O’Connor PG, Walley AY. Overdose Education and Naloxone Rescue Kits for Family Members of Individuals Who Use Opioids: Characteristics, Motivations, and Naloxone Use. Substance Abuse 2015, 36(2):149-54. PMID: 25564892. Fiellin D, Samet J, O’Connor PG. Addressing bias in observational studies of alcohol withdrawal syndrome: a call to the field. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 2015, 39(2):390. PMID: 25665029. D'Onofrio G, O'Connor PG, Pantalon MV, Chawarski MC, Busch SH, Owens PH, Bernstein SL, Fiellin DA. Emergency department-initiated buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for opioid dependence: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2015, 313(16):1636-44. PMID: 25919527. O’Connor PG. Alcohol use disorder. In Goldman-Cecil Medicine, 25th Edition, 2015:149-156. Gueorguieva R, Wu R, Tsai W, O’Connor PG,Fucito L, Zhang H, O’Malley SS.An analysis of moderators in the COMBINE Study: Identifying subgroups of patients who benefit from acamprosate. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Oct;25(10):1586-99. PMID: 26141511. Edelman EJ, Hansen NB, Cutter CJ, Danton, C, Fiellin LE, O'Connor PG, Williams EC, Maisto SA, Bryant K, Fiellin DA. Implementation of Integrated Stepped Care for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in HIV Clinics. Addiction Science and Clinical Practice. 2016 Jan 13, 11: 1. PMID: 26763048. Education:B.S., Union College, 1978M.D., The Albany Medical College, 1982M.P.H., Yale University School of Medicine, 1988 Training: Internal Medicine Residency: The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1982-1985Chief Residency: The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1985-1986Fellowship: The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University, 1986-1988Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Therapeutic Radiology; Chief, Thoracic Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology; Chief, PET-Guided Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology; Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office, Yale Cancer Center; Head of Advisory House, Purple House, Office of Student Affairs
Dr. Henry S. Park is a board-certified radiation oncologist who serves as associate professor, vice chair for clinical research, chief of thoracic radiotherapy, and chief of PET-guided radiotherapy for the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at the Yale School of Medicine. For the Yale Cancer Center, he is an assistant medical director of the Clinical Trials Office, through which he leads the radiation oncology committee and is associate leader of the lung clinical research team. For the medical school's Office of Student Affairs, he is the head of one of the six advisory houses. He has previously held roles as the associate residency program director, medical student electives director, and continuing medical education director for radiation oncology. Dr. Park received his undergraduate degree from Yale College, master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, and medical doctorate degree from the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine internship at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before returning to Yale New Haven Hospital for his residency and chief residency in radiation oncology. Dr. Park subspecializes in radiation therapy for lung cancer and head and neck cancer, maintaining a busy clinical practice in New Haven. He leads a wide-ranging research program in clinical trials, real-world evidence, and health services. He has co-authored over 135 peer-reviewed original research articles and 45 reviews, book chapters, invited editorials, and practice guidelines. He serves as an oral and written boards examiner for the American Board of Radiology and as an active committee member for the American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Radium Society, SWOG, ECOG-ACRIN, and NRG. He has been honored with multiple awards for his contributions to patient care, clinical research, and medical education. Learn more about Dr. Park>>Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Associate Director for Education and Training, Program in Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine; Vice-chief for Education, General Internal Medicine; Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Head of Advisory House, Orange House, Office of Student Affairs
Dr. Tetrault is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Vice-chief for Education for the Section of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director for the Program in Addiction Medicine, and Program Director for Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Her scholarly work focuses on care of patients with addiction and the medical conditions associated with substance use, mainly HIV and Hepatitis C. Dr. Tetrault is a staff physician at the Central Medical Unit of the APT Foundation – a multispecialty addiction treatment center. She has been recognized for her teaching accomplishments being awarded the New England Regional Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Clinician Educator of the Year Award in 2013, The W. Anderson Spickard Award for Excellence in Mentorship by the Association of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMSERSA) in 2018, the American Society of Addiction Medicine Training Directors Award in 2021, and the John P. McGovern Aware. She serves as president of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine and is a past-president of the New England Region of SGIM. In 2017, she was recognized as a Macy Foundation Faculty Scholar.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership; Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, Throughout his career Dr. Rohrbaugh has been active in developing clinical programs that integrate medical student and residency education. He has been especially interested in teaching beginning clinicians how to listen to a patient's narrative, identify pertinent data, and use that data to develop a bio-psycho-social formulation and treatment plan. Dr. Rohrbaugh developed the VA-CT Psychiatry Primary Care Clinic and Geropsychiatry service and served as Clinical Director of VA-CT Mental Health Service Line. He served as the Clerkship Director and Director of Medical Studies for medical student education and as Associate Program Director before leaving the VA to assume the Program Director role in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Rohrbaugh was named Deputy Chair for Education and Career Development in the Department of Psychiatry. In his residency program director role, Dr. Rohrbaugh facilitated the development of a social justice and health equity track within the residency to equip psychiatrists to address health disparities as part of their clinical mission. Dr. Rohrbaugh has worked with colleagues at Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC to develop a competency based model for post-graduate (residency) education. This model has heavily influenced the Chinese national model for residency training. He was the Founding Director of the Yale School of Medicine's Office of International Medical Student Education in 2008 and was named Associate Dean for Global Health Education. In 2015, having noted the irony that global health education is largely discussed by educators in high income countries, Dr. Rohrbaugh co-founded the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative with an explicit goal of bringing global health education leaders from high, middle and low income countries together to improve global health education. In 2021 Dr. Rohrbaugh became Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership at Yale School of Medicine. In this role he leads a team whose mission is to improve the culture of the School by promoting professionalism, developing faculty leaders, and elevating well-being of faculty.Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Professor Aksoy is a tropical medicine researcher whose work focuses on the epidemiology of insect transmitted (vector borne) and zoonotic diseases. Her research has been on tsetse flies and the pathogenic parasites they transmit that cause highly neglected and fatal diseases of humans in Africa, known as Sleeping Sickness. Her laboratory focuses on deciphering the vector-parasite molecular dialogue and parasite development during the transmission process with the ultimate goal of identifying novel targets of interference and developing transmission blocking vaccines to reduce disease. Her fundamental and interdisciplinary work on tsetse and its microbial symbionts has identified key principles that shape host-microbe interactions. Her studies with tsetse's mutualistic microbes identified nutritional contributions that facilitate female fecundity and mediate host immune system development. Her studies with tsetse's commensal microbiota led to a novel biological method, coined as paratransgenesis, in which anti-parasitic molecules are synthesized in the beneficial gut microbes, thus making the gut environment inhospitable for disease causing parasites. Ability to spread such modified microbes into natural insect populations is being explored to reduce disease transmission as a novel biological method.Dr. Aksoy maintains collaborative research activities with Yale researchers as well as with multiple universities and research institutes in Africa. Their studies in Kenya and Uganda investigate the epidemiology of Sleeping Sickness disease, with a focus on understanding the major drivers that sustain disease transmission, as well as on population genetics of flies and parasites and their microbiota. She initiated and led a large international consortium that eventually sequenced the genome of six tsetse fly species. This effort vastly expanded molecular knowledge and genomic resources on this neglected disease vector, and collectively expanded research capacity in bioinformatics and functional biology in many laboratories in sub-Sahara Africa. As the co-editor in Chief of the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases between 2007-2020, she has been a major voice for building research and publication capacity for global neglected tropical diseases. Throughout her professional career, Aksoy has been an advocate of and innovator in Global Health; served as a dedicated mentor to students and scientists in the US and in Africa, China, Italy and Turkey helping to prepare the next generation of leaders in the fields of epidemiology and zoonotic disease control.Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Yale Center for Clinical and Community Research, Department of Medicine; Director, HIV in Prisons Program, Infectious Diseases; Director, Community Health Care Van, Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Disorders/Addiction Medicine; Academic Icon Professor of Medicine, University of Malaya-Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine , University of Malaya
Frederick (Rick) L. Altice is a professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health and is a clinician, clinical epidemiologist, intervention and implementation science researcher at Yale University School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Dr. Altice’s primary research focuses on interventions and implementation science at the interface between infectious diseases and addiction and he has conducted research in several global health settings. He also has a number of projects working in the criminal justice system, including transitional programs addressing infectious diseases, medications for opioid use disorder (methadone, buprenorphine, extended release naltrexone), mental illness, homelessness and social instability. Specific topics include alcohol, opioid, stimulant and nicotine use disorders on HIV treatment outcomes, HIV and addiction treatment, interface with the criminal justice system, and pharmacokinetic drug interactions between treatment for substance use disorders and antiretroviral and tuberculosis therapy. At a basic level, his research focuses on clinical epidemiology, especially in key populations at risk for HIV (e.g., MSM, TGW, PWID, prisoners, sex workers) and development, adaptation and evaluation of of biomedical and behavioral interventions to improve treatment outcomes. His research, however, has evolved and included development and testing of mobile technologies (mHealth) to intervene with key populations to promote health outcomes. His research is especially concentrated in health services research techniques with a focus on implementation science, seeking to introduce and scale-up evidence-based interventions in numerous contexts. A number of implementation science strategies are underway to examine scale-up of medication-assisted therapies to treat opioid use disorder in community, criminal justice and in primary care settings. Most recently, his work has been augmented through use of decision science techniques to understand and promote patient preferences, including the development of informed and shared decision-making aids. His work has emerged primarily with a global health focus with funded research projects internationally in Malaysia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, and Indonesia. He has participated in projects through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, Special Projects of National Significance with HRSA, and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. He is currently also collaborating on projects with the WHO, UNAIDS, USAID, PEPFAR and UNODC. Current internationally funded projects in dedicated research sites that are being conducted in Malaysia, Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Peru. His research and training sites in Malaysia (2005), Peru (2010) and Ukraine (2005) are dedicated training and research sites for the Global Health Equity Scholars Fogarty Training Program and the Doris Duke International Fellowship program. He is currently the director for two International Implementation Science Research and Training Centers with collaborations between Yale University and the University of Malaya and Sichuan University.Professor Emeritus; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health; Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases
I have focused my career in medicine and infectious diseases on creating new knowledge to improve the health of marginalized and underserved populations in the US and globally. I have been involved in HIV/AIDS care, teaching and research since 1981. I served as Director of the Yale AIDS Program from 1991 to 2009. More recently, although still working domestically on HIV/AIDS, a major focus my work has been to integrate HIV and TB care and treatment in co infected patients in South Africa with the aim of improving diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of both diseases. This has led to the recognition of the epidemic of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in Tugela Ferry in rural KwaZuluNatal South Africa and now focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and reduction of transmission of XDR TB and multiple drug resistant (MDR) TB and in HIV co-infected patients. During my career, I have developed multidisciplinary teams and constructed observational studies, clinical trials and operational research in community and health care settings to address complex infectious diseases challenges. I have also served as a mentor for students, residents, fellows and faculty and other health care workers in the US and multiple international sites, with a current and continuing focus in rural South Africa.Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience; Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry)
Joel Gelernter, MD, is Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Genetics and Neurobiology; and Director, Division of Human Genetics (Psychiatry), at the Yale University School of Medicine. The research focus of his laboratory is genetics of psychiatric illness – phenotypes including cocaine, opioid, nicotine, cannabis, and alcohol dependence, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and panic and other anxiety disorders. He also studies a range of related phenotypes, including pharmacogenomics; and basic issues in population and complex trait genetics. The overall approach involves study of genetic polymorphism and sequence variation, on a molecular level and from the perspective of population genetics. Dr Gelernter’s laboratory published genomewide association studies (GWAS) for cocaine, cannabis, and opioid dependence, PTSD, alcohol dependence, nicotine dependence, and several related traits. All of these studies have resulted in the identification of novel risk loci.Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pharmacology; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Heimer's major research efforts include scientific investigation of the mortality and morbidity associated with injection drug use. Areas of investigation include syringe exchange programs, virus survival in syringes, hepatitis B vaccination, hepatitis C transmission risks, overdose prevention and resuscitation, and pharmacological treatment of opiate addiction. His research combines laboratory, operational, behavioral, and structural analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs in preventing the negative medical consequences of injection drug use. Dr. Heimer is a member of Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) and former Director of its Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core. His current work focuses on the contexts and consequences of the opioid crisis in CT and the systemic of HIV, viral hepatitis, and injection drug use nationally and globally. Dr. Heimer previously served as Principal Investigator of the Yale office of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program. This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded program is one of ten programs nationwide that seek to assess, through population-based surveillance, the public health impact of emerging infectious diseases and to evaluate methods for their prevention and control in the community. The Yale program currently focuses on foodborne illnesses, and respiratory illnesses (especially influenza), Lyme and other tickborne diseases, Clostridium difficile, and the prevention of human papillomavirus infections. Dr. Heimer received his training in molecular biology and pharmacology at Columbia College (BA) and Yale University (MA, PhD). He began his work on the prevention of HIV among injection drug users in 1990 with an evaluation of the city-run New Haven needle exchange program and his work on emerging infections in 1995 with studies of the tick-borne agent of human ehrlichiosis.Assistant Professor Adjunct of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Humphries has a broad background in public health research and practice. She has been a consultant in the areas of diet and physical activity behavior change, sustainability of community health programs, program monitoring and evaluation, and training in participatory monitoring and evaluation for organizations in Vietnam, Africa and in the United States. She has extended that reach through her Practice-based Community Health Research course which places student groups with agencies in the State of Connecticut to plan and evaluate programs. Sample projects include: Determining the Best Time to Implement Routine HIV Testing in Jails; Barriers to Accessing Health Care and Health Needs of Undocumented Immigrants; Evaluation of HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care in Connecticut Correctional Facilities; and Strategies to Reduce Low Birth Weight in New Haven: An Evaluation of the Outreach Strategy of the New Haven Maternal and Child Health Department. Humphries is also a member of the Community Research Engagement steering committee at Yale.Dr. Humphries’ research addresses interactions between nutrition and infectious disease, as well as programmatic approaches to improving public health. This work has taken her to Asia and Africa where she has studied environmental factors and intestinal helminth infections and their relationship to anemia as well as effectiveness of intervention programs. She is currently collaborating on a longitudinal study to characterize parasite and host factors affecting response to deworming in Ghana.William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and Professor in the MacMillan Center; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, where she served as Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies (CMES, 2008-11). She is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (JMEWS), and she has received the 2013 Middle East Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Anthropological Association's Middle East Section. As Past-President of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) of the American Anthropological Association, Inhorn was the Program Chair of the SMA conference on “Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years of Interdisciplinarity,” (link) held at Yale September 24-27, 2009. In 2010, she was the inaugural Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the the University of Cambridge's Centre for Gender Studies. In 2013, she received the SMA's Graduate Mentoring Award from the Medical Anthropology Students' Association (MASA).Inhorn’s research interests revolve around the anthropology of reproduction, gender and feminist theory (including masculinity studies), science and technology studies, religion and bioethics, globalization and global health, cultures of biomedicine and ethnomedicine, and stigma and human suffering. Over the past 25 years, Inhorn has conducted multi-sited research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America. She is the author of four books on the subject, The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East (Princeton U Press, 2012), Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which have won the American Anthropological Association’s Eileen Basker Prize and Diana Forsythe Prize for outstanding feminist anthropological research in the areas of gender, health, science, technology, and biomedicine. Her newest book, “Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai,” will being published by Duke University Press. Inhorn is also the editor or co-editor of nine volumes, including Globalized Fatherhood (Berghahn 2014); Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures (Duke U Press, 2012); Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Sunni and Shia Perspectives (Berghahn, 2012); and Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Oxford U Press, 2009).Department Chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Trace Kershaw, PhD, focuses on the social and structural determinants of health (e.g., sexual health, substance use, mental health, reproductive health) among adolescents and emerging adults. His current focus is using innovative technologic methods to understand how social (e.g., how ones friends, partners, and family) and geographic context (e.g., how the places one goes and lives) influences their behaviors and health. Further, he is an expert in developing interventions aimed to improve the health and well being of adolescents and emerging adults.He is the Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Director of two HIV Training Grants (Yale AIDS Prevention Training, Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars), and Director of the the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has twice won Mentor of the Year. He also serves on expert panels for the NIH and CDC and on several journal editorial boards.Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Khoshnood is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and executive committee member at Yale Council on Middle East Studies. He is Faculty Director for Humanitarian Research Lab. Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than three decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among people who use drugs and other at-risk populations. Dr. Khoshnood's research interests include: 1) epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, 2) research ethics and 3) humanitarian health.Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
James F. Leckman, M.D. is the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at Yale. Dr. Leckman is a well-known child psychiatrist and patient-oriented clinical investigator. For more than 20, years he served as the Director of Research for the Yale Child Study Center. His peers have regularly selected him as one of the Best Doctors in America. Dr. Leckman is the author or co-author of over 430 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals, twelve books, and 140 book chapters. Dr. Leckman has a longstanding interest in Tourette syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). His research on these disorders is multifaceted from phenomenology and natural history, to neurobiology to genetics, to risk factor research and treatment studies. One area of active research interest concerns the role of the immune system in the pathobiology of Tourette syndrome and other neuropsychiatric disorders.Professor Adjunct in Pediatrics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Pediatrics; Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology; Professor of Management, School of Management
The Paintsil laboratory focuses on increasing our understanding of the host determinants of individual differences in response to antiretroviral therapy; biomarkers and pathogenesis of increasing incidence of cancers in HIV treatment-experienced individuals.Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs and Professor of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Professor Panter-Brick's research consists of critical analyses of health and wellbeing across key stages of human development, giving special attention to the impact of poverty, disease, malnutrition, armed conflict, and social marginalization.She has directed large interdisciplinary projects in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. These projects include work on global public health and health interventions, mental health, psychosocial stress, disease ecology, nutrition, and human reproduction. Her focus on children in global adversity has included biocultural research with street children, refugees, and war-affected adolescents. She teaches courses on wellbeing, livelihoods, and health, disease ecology, nutritional anthropology, and medical anthropology.She has published widely on child and adolescent health, including articles on violence and mental health in Afghanistan, household decision-making and infant survival in famine-stricken Niger, the social ecology of growth retardation in Nepali slums, biomarkers of stress in contexts of violence and homelessness, the effectiveness of public health interventions, and human rights and public health approaches as applied to international work with street children.She has edited several books to bridge research findings into teaching practice, including Health, Risk, and Adversity (2009), Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2001), Abandoned Children (2000), Hormones, Health and Behavior (1999), and Biosocial Perspectives on Children (1989). She is currently Senior Editor (Medical Anthropology section) for Social Science & Medicine. Prior to coming to Yale, Panter-Brick was Professor of Anthropology at Durham University in the United Kingdom.Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science
Having received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as co-founder of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). His recent publications include Designing in Ethics, co-edited, Cambridge 2017; Global Tax Fairness, co-edited, Oxford 2016; Politics as Usual, Polity 2010; World Poverty and Human Rights, 2nd edition, Polity 2008; Global Justice and Global Ethics, co-edited, Paragon House 2008; John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice, Oxford 2007; and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right, edited, Oxford & UNESCO 2007. More information at https://campuspress.yale.edu/thomaspogge/
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Jill earned her BA from Villanova University and MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania and lived in the Philadelphia area for 10 years before returning home to Connecticut to start a family. Jill started her career at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia managing a Community Pediatrics and Advocacy curriculum for resident physicians. She started working at Yale in October 2007 as the Manager of Medical Education for the Ob/Gyn department and joined the Office of Student Affairs in September 2012.Director of Student Programs
Deanna earned her BS from the University of Connecticut and spent the following 4 years in Baltimore, Maryland providing case management and intensive outreach care to underserved patients living in the city. Family brought Deanna and her husband back home to Connecticut where she then worked in research as a Program Coordinator with The Asthma Center at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. Taking time off to start a family and care for her late mother, Deanna and her husband, Dan, eventually relocated to Guilford, Connecticut where they remain active in their community and can be found nearly every weekend cheering and coaching their 2 daughters from various sidelines. Deanna joined the Office of Student Affairs in September 2018 where she supports the Advisor Program, YSM’s student-run HAVEN Free Clinic, and special projects within the Office of Curriculum. Departments & Organizations Medical Education Staff Yale UniversitySenior Administrative Assistant
Joanne is Dean John Francis' administrative assist and provides administrative support to the Yale Progress Committee and student run HAVEN Free Clinic. Joanne is a State of Connecticut notary and is available to help you with documents you may need notarized. Joanne started at Yale as the senior administrative assistant to the CRO of the Yale Medical Group in February 2012. Previously she worked in administrative support positions in health insurance, admissions/medical education at a technical school, and in the pharmaceutical industry. She joined the YSM Student Affairs department in May 2014 supporting the dean for student affairs. In her spare time she tries to read a book a week.Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director, Emergency Medicine Clerkship; Head of Advisory House, Blue 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 Yale, including the Francis Gilmore Blake award (2009), Leonard Tow Humanism award (2016) and the Leah Lowenstein Award (2018). She serves on the Yale-New Haven Health Bioethics Committee and the Resource Triage Advisory Group, has obtained additional training in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, and is immediate-past National Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Palliative Care Section. Integrating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care teaching to residents, fellows, and medical students has been a priority for Dr. Jubanyik. She has developed instructional tools to teach Palliative Care and End of Life topics to students and residents and is interested in racial and cultural disparities in patients who receive palliative and hospice care at end of life. In the covid-19 era, she has written several articles and a book to educate the lay community about the virus and the importance of advanced directives and palliative care. She continues to teach resident and student workshops devoted to recognizing and treating victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault and Harassment. Locally, she is past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of Emergency Physicians (CCEP) and is still involved on multiple Connecticut state committees. As a co-investigator, she has received grant funding from the NIH and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study emergency department initiation of palliative care.Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Head of Advisory House, Gold House, Office of Student Affairs
As a clinician-educator based at the VA primary care clinic, I spend the majority of my time providing primary care for my panel of veterans. I enjoy caring for this remarkably complex population and feel fortunate that my position also allows me the opportunity for collegial learning and teaching with residents and medical students in the inpatient setting and in clinic. Over the past decade, I have become more involved with undergraduate medical education at the Yale School of Medicine, mainly through the Clinical Skills Committee and teaching small groups of medical students on various topics ranging from Professionalism to Intimate Partner Violence. I lead the Problem-Focused Patient Examination Workshop, an extremely well-received workshop during the Primary Care/Psychiatry clerkship which uses role play to teach all third year medical students how to do a focused visit. Due to my background in clinical skills and assessment, I was selected to serve as a Clinical Assessment Coach focusing on direct observation and formative feedback and have used these skills as Director of Remediation for Yale Medical students and now as an Academic Advisor in the Office of Student Affairs at the School of Medicine. My academic interests have always been grounded in medical education, and include undergraduate medical education, clinical skills teaching, coaching and remediation.Sr Administrative Assistant YSM Student Affairs
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Dan Adams and Amanda Adams Professor of General Medicine; Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine; Head of Advisory House, Green House, Office of Student Affairs
Research Interests: Dr. O’Connor has focused his research on the interface between primary care and addiction medicine. This has included research examining the transfer of addiction treatment strategies from “specialty” settings to primary care and other general medical settings. His publications in this area include studies on the management of opioid withdrawal in primary care settings, opioid maintenance in primary care, and the use of naltrexone for treating alcohol dependence in primary care patients. He has been active in medical education on addiction both nationally and internationally and has served as the President of The Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research on Substance use and Addiction (AMERSA) and of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and The Addiction Medicine Foundation. Selected Recent Publications:O’Connor, PG. Brief Interventions for Problem Drinking: Another Piece of the Puzzle. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007; 146(3):223-225. Martell BA, O’Connor PG, Kerns RD, Becker WC, Morales KH, Kosten TR, and Fiellin DA. Systematic Review: Opioid treatment for chronic back pain: prevalence, efficacy and association with addiction. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2007; 146:116-127. Sledge, WH, Brown, KE, Levine, JM, Fiellin, DA, Chawarski, M, White, WD, O’Connor, PG. A Randomized Trial of Primary Intensive Care to Reduce Hospital Admissions in Patients with High Utilization of Inpatient Services. Disease Management. 2006; 9(6)328-338. O’Connor PG. Problem Drinkers: Find Them, Keep Them, Don’t Lose Them, Treat Them. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005; 20(1):96-97. D’Onofrio G, MS; Pantalon MV, Degutis LC, Fiellin DA, O’Connor PG. Development and Implementation of an Emergency Practitioner-Performed Brief Intervention for Harmful and Hazardous Drinkers in the Emergency Department. Academic Emergency Medicine. 2005; 12(3):249-256. O’Connor PG. Methods of Detoxification and Their Role in Managing Patients With Opioid Dependence. JAMA. 2005; 294(8):961-963. Sullivan LE, Fiellin DA, O’Connor PG. The prevalence and impact of alcohol problems in major depression: A systematic review. American Journal ofMedicine. 2005; 118(4):330-341. Kernan WE, Holmboe E, O’Connor PG. Assessing the teaching behaviors of ambulatory care preceptors. Academic Medicine. 2004; 79(11):1088-1094. O’Malley S, Rounsaville BJ, Farren C, Namkoong K, Wu R, Robinson J, O’Connor PG. Initial and Maintenance Naltrexone for Alcohol dependence using primary care vs. specialty care: A nested sequence of three randomized trials. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2003; 163(14):1695-1704. Kosten T, O’Connor PG. Current Concepts: Management of Drug and Alcohol Withdrawal. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(18):1786-1795. Reid MC, Engles-Horton LL, Weber MB, Kerns RD, Rogers EL, O’Connor PG. Use of opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain syndromes in primary care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2002; 17(3):173-9. O’Connor PG. Treating opioid dependence—new data and new opportunities. The New England Journal of Medicine. 2000; 343(18):1332-4. Fiellin DA, Reid MC, O’Connor PG. Screening for alcohol problems in primary care: A systematic review. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000; 160(13):1977-89. O’Connor PG, Fiellin DA. Pharmacologic treatment of heroin-dependent patients. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2000; 133(1):40-54. D’Onofrio G, Fiellin DA, Pantalon MV, Chawarski MC, Owens P, Degutis LC, Busch SH, Bernstein SL, O’Connor PG. A brief intervention reduces hazardous and harmful drinking in emergency department patients. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2012, 60:181-192. PMID: 22459448. 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Education:B.S., Union College, 1978M.D., The Albany Medical College, 1982M.P.H., Yale University School of Medicine, 1988 Training: Internal Medicine Residency: The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1982-1985Chief Residency: The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1985-1986Fellowship: The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University, 1986-1988Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Therapeutic Radiology; Chief, Thoracic Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology; Chief, PET-Guided Radiotherapy Program, Therapeutic Radiology; Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Trials Office, Yale Cancer Center; Head of Advisory House, Purple House, Office of Student Affairs
Dr. Henry S. Park is a board-certified radiation oncologist who serves as associate professor, vice chair for clinical research, chief of thoracic radiotherapy, and chief of PET-guided radiotherapy for the Department of Therapeutic Radiology at the Yale School of Medicine. For the Yale Cancer Center, he is an assistant medical director of the Clinical Trials Office, through which he leads the radiation oncology committee and is associate leader of the lung clinical research team. For the medical school's Office of Student Affairs, he is the head of one of the six advisory houses. He has previously held roles as the associate residency program director, medical student electives director, and continuing medical education director for radiation oncology. Dr. Park received his undergraduate degree from Yale College, master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, and medical doctorate degree from the Yale School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine internship at Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center before returning to Yale New Haven Hospital for his residency and chief residency in radiation oncology. Dr. Park subspecializes in radiation therapy for lung cancer and head and neck cancer, maintaining a busy clinical practice in New Haven. He leads a wide-ranging research program in clinical trials, real-world evidence, and health services. He has co-authored over 135 peer-reviewed original research articles and 45 reviews, book chapters, invited editorials, and practice guidelines. He serves as an oral and written boards examiner for the American Board of Radiology and as an active committee member for the American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Radium Society, SWOG, ECOG-ACRIN, and NRG. He has been honored with multiple awards for his contributions to patient care, clinical research, and medical education. Learn more about Dr. Park>>Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Associate Director for Education and Training, Program in Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine; Vice-chief for Education, General Internal Medicine; Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Head of Advisory House, Orange House, Office of Student Affairs
Dr. Tetrault is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Vice-chief for Education for the Section of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director for the Program in Addiction Medicine, and Program Director for Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Her scholarly work focuses on care of patients with addiction and the medical conditions associated with substance use, mainly HIV and Hepatitis C. Dr. Tetrault is a staff physician at the Central Medical Unit of the APT Foundation – a multispecialty addiction treatment center. She has been recognized for her teaching accomplishments being awarded the New England Regional Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Clinician Educator of the Year Award in 2013, The W. Anderson Spickard Award for Excellence in Mentorship by the Association of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMSERSA) in 2018, the American Society of Addiction Medicine Training Directors Award in 2021, and the John P. McGovern Aware. She serves as president of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine and is a past-president of the New England Region of SGIM. In 2017, she was recognized as a Macy Foundation Faculty Scholar.Registrar MD Students Yale School of Medicine Student Affairs; Registrar for Student Affairs
Assistant Professor; Director of Performance Improvement, Yale School of Medicine; Director of Clinical Reasoning, Yale School of Medicine; Associate, Educator Development in Teaching Clinical Reasoning, Teaching and Learning Center
Thilan Wijesekera, MD, MHS received his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry before completing his residency training in Yale University’s Primary Care Residency Program. He subsequently completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship in Medical Education at Yale University School of Medicine, during which he received a Master of Health Science degree in the Medical Education Pathway. In 2018, he joined the Academic Hospitalist Program in the Yale Section of General Internal Medicine. He is active in medical education, particularly at Yale University School of Medicine, where he has roles as the Director of Clinical Reasoning and a section leader in the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience. He also has a role in the Teaching and Learning Center as an Associate for Clinical Reasoning Educator Development, where he provides and collaborates on consultations, workshops, and scholarship related to teaching clinical reasoning. Dr. Wijesekera's educational interests include clinical skills, curriculum development, interprofessional education and mentorship for medical students and residents. His research interests include clinical reasoning, diagnostic error, and interprofessional education with recent publications in JAMA Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, and Journal of General Internal Medicine. He gives faculty development workshops regionally and nationally on teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic error, on which he completed a fellowship with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (2018).
Office of Student Research
Associate Dean of Student Research
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Dean for Student Research, Office of Education; Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
Sarwat Chaudhry, MD is a board-certified internist who completed her clinical training at the University of Chicago before coming to Yale for postdoctoral fellowship training in the Clinical Scholars Program. She holds a faculty position as Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Medicine. She also serves as Associate Dean of Student Research and Co-Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program. Dr. Chaudhry leads an active portfolio of NIH-funded research, focusing primarily on diversifying the physician and physician-scientist workforce. She is also leading work focused on improving the quality and safety of hospital-based care.Associate Dean of Student Research
John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary) and Professor of Pathology; Director, Yale Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Center of Excellence, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Associate Dean, Medical Student Research
My training as a physician scientist motivates me to seek new treatments for chronic lung diseases. I have spent more than 15 years pursuing this goal by studying the relationship mechanisms of fibrotic remodeling in the adult mammalian lung. My laboratory has had a sustained impact on the field of pulmonary fibrosis and is credited with several seminal discoveries that have been verified and reproduced in laboratories around the world. My early work helped ignite interest in the mechanism(s) through which innate immunity is linked to pulmonary fibrosis. For example, my lab was the first to report that monocytes from patients with Scleroderma associated lung fibrosis adopt profibrotic properties following DAMP stimulation. We reported that the lungs of mice exposed to fibrotic stimuli, and humans with IPF, contain aberrantly activated macrophages that can be repolarized with innate immune agonists to attenuate experimentally induced lung fibrosis. We also are credited with linking intracellular DNA sensors and their ligands with numerous forms of interstitial lung disease. Most recently we reported that a previously unrecognized nerve-lung connection drives mammalian lung fibrosis. My work has been published in journals such as Science, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Medicine, Cell, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. I have been a continuous recipient of NIH funding since 2005 in the form of K08, R01 and U01 awards, and have been honored by my peers with the Jo Rae Wright Award from the American Thoracic Society and induction into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI). My discoveries in these domains have been informed by collaborations with Yale immunologists, neuroscientists, and bioengineers with the goal of developing new ways to improve respiratory health.Deputy Director of Scientific Affairs
Research Scientist (Geriatrics); Associate Director, Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology & Aging-related Research; Deputy Director of Scientific Affairs, Office of Student Research
Alexandra Hajduk, PhD, MPH, is a geriatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on improving patient-centered outcomes for older adults with cardiovascular disease. She is also Associate Director of Yale's Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology & Aging-related Research as well as Deputy Director of Scientific Affairs at Yale School of Medicine's Office of Student Research.Associate Director
Assoc Dir YSM Stu Research
Sarah May assumed the role of Associate Director in the Office of Student Research in September, 2023. In this role, Sarah proactively oversees the entirety of the medical student research program's operational facets. This encompasses the management of the research curriculum in alignment with Yale's educational research program objectives, meticulous tracking and adherence to MD thesis requirements for all graduating students, orchestrating the annual Student Research Day, as well as the financial stewardship and supervision of both federal and non-federal grants, endowments, special use accounts, and other financial matters. She also takes on various other ongoing responsibilities tailored to the evolving needs of the office.Sarah joined the Office of Student Research in March, 2023, as the Sponsored Projects Specialist. In this capacity, she coordinated all activities linked to OSR's NIH training grants. Her responsibilities encompassed managing student appointments to these grants, ensuring full compliance with reporting and regulatory standards, offering comprehensive tracking and financial analysis, and overseeing both competing and non-competing renewals.Before joining the Office of Student Research, Sarah served as the Program Coordinator for the National Clinician Scholars Program from 2018 to 2023.Sarah boasts a robust foundation in research training and carries a proven track record of stellar performance within demanding, high-volume environments. Her proficiency extends to accounting and financial management, further enriching her contributions to her current role.Senior Administrative Assistant Yale School of Medicine Stu Research
Project Coordinator - Office of Student Research
Karen Angelicola is an adaptable administrative professional with over 8 years of experience, skilled in providing efficient and reliable support. She spent 5 years working as the Senior Administrative Assistant for the National Clinician Scholars Program before becoming the Project coordinator for the Office of Student Research. Karen holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public History with a concentration in Curatorship and Collections Management at Central Connecticut State University.
Office of the Deputy Dean
Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Dr. Illuzzi is Deputy Dean for Education and Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Illuzzi is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed her OB/GYN residency here at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 2004, she was named a Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar supported by a career development grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. In 2006, she completed a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Illuzzi’s research examines the use of obstetric interventions and their impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes, especially among low-risk women. Topics include prophylaxis to prevent vertical transmission of group B streptococcus and innovative models of maternity care. Dr. Illuzzi served as Chief of the Obstetric Specialties and Midwifery division as well as the Medical Director of the Vidone Birthing Center at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital until 2020. In the education domain, Dr. Illuzzi previously served as clerkship director and director of medical studies in OB/GYN and curriculum director for the Advanced Training Period for the MD program at YSM. She has played an active role in the YSM curriculum redesign, LCME reaccreditation cycles, and continues to be a strong advocate for students, trainees, and faculty in the educational mission of the Yale School of Medicine.Manager, Office of the Deputy Dean for Education; Manager, Office of the Deputy Dean for Education
Lisa joined Yale School of Medicine in March 2012 to provide administrative support in the Office of Education for the MD program curriculum rebuild project. In 2014, she became the LCME coordinator for the medical school accreditation and then joined the Office of the Deputy Dean for Education in May 2015.Senior Administrative Assistant 2
Megan is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the Office of the Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine. She is primarily responsible for administrative support for Dean Illuzzi.She previously worked as Research Program Manager at the Physician Associate Program, where she was responsible for managing the administrative component of the research education program. Prior to her work in medical education, she was the Program Coordinator for the Executive Education Department at the Yale School of Management. Megan is a graduate of Rider University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with minors in Criminal Justice and Gender Studies. In her spare time, Megan enjoys reading, creative writing, and bike riding.Communications, Senior Officer
Abby joined Yale School of Medicine in November 2017, from Yale School of Management, where she had spent six years as Special Assistant to the Dean. Prior to that, she was Director of Alumni Affairs at Yale Law School. Before returning to Yale, where Abby attended college and law school, Abby spent two years clerking for judges and eleven years as a lawyer for the federal government, predominantly focusing on firearms and explosives law and policy. Abby is a member of the Yale Traffic Safety Committee. Outside of work, Abby is on the board of the New Haven Preservation Trust, and also is active with the Safe Streets Coalition of New Haven.Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Assistant Dean for Education, Medical Education; Director of Clinical Skills, Office of Education; Associate Professor, Pediatrics; Editor, Yale Primary Care Pediatrics Curriculum, Pediatrics
Jaideep Talwalkar is a physician and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. He provides primary care for patients of all ages as well as specialty care for adults with cystic fibrosis. In addition to seeing patients, he teaches medical students and residents at Yale and develops curricula for medical education. As Assistant Dean for Education, he works on educational and administrative innovations for YSM. As Director of Clinical Skills, he oversees the teaching of fundamental bedside skills to Yale medical students. He also edits and administers the Yale Primary Care Pediatrics Curriculum (pcpc.yale.edu), a guide for pediatric teaching used by pediatricians nationwide. When not at work, he spends time with family and seeks any opportunity to play ultimate frisbee.
Student Mental Health & Wellness Program
Mental Health & Wellness Program Manager
Lisa’s experience and interests will make her a valuable resource for students. She received her masters in social work, with a focus in clinical work with children and families, from CUNY Hunter. She has many years of experience working with primarily families and individuals of color, and specializes in treating anxiety, depression, and OCD. She has worked in many different settings, including large non-profits, hospitals, and universities, and enjoys working with youth and young adults and helping them learn skills to better manage their lives both individually and in groups. Lisa loves working with first-generation students and immigrants, as well as queer and gender diverse peopleStudent Wellness Counselor
Sundari brings compassion, curiosity, and a wealth of knowledge from professional and personal experience to the student wellness counselor role. She holds dual master’s degrees in social work and public health from the University of Connecticut, where she specialized in behavioral health integrated care. Sundari has worked in diverse clinical settings (outpatient substance use treatment, primary care, women’s health care, higher education) and has developed strong interprofessional communication skills through her work with first- and second-year medical students at UConn Health/Connecticut Area Health Education Center. A registered yoga teacher and mindfulness facilitator, Sundari specializes in mindfulness-based interventions for stress and anxiety. She has a particular interest in the equitable delivery of wellness services to all and is passionate about working with individuals with disabilities.Clinical Psychologist
Andrea DePetris, Ph.D. completed her doctorate at the University of Connecticut, her predoctoral internship at the Veteran Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System (Newington), and postdoctoral work at Columbia University. Dr. DePetris has engaged in research at the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, as well as at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on mental health disparities, the impact of experiencing racial discrimination, and multiracial/ethnic identity formation. Dr. DePetris has represented the state of Connecticut to the American Psychological Association as the state’s Diversity Delegate in 2016 and 2017. She has been honored by the Connecticut Psychological Association and previously worked as the Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Yale Health, Mental Health & Counseling. Dr. DePetris appreciates that our mental health is informed by our physical health, our emotions, spiritual needs, and social and environmental contexts. Her training in clinical health psychology, Kripalu yoga, and integrative nutrition inform her holistic approach to care. She enjoys tailoring her approach to an individual’s unique constitution and socially-embedded experiences. Dr. DePetris is especially attuned to the multidimensionality of individuals and their layers of identity — including the identities that are socially-imposed and those that are self-affirmed.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Director of the Center for Medical Education, YSM Administration
As associate dean for teaching and learning Dr. Hafler is professor in Pediatrics and leads the Center for Medical Education, which includes Continuing Medical Education and Evaluation and Assessment. Dr. Hafler works in Continuing Medical Education, Graduate Medical Education and Undergraduate Medical Education. She received her master's degree in education specializing in maternal and child health from Columbia University and her doctorate in Education from Harvard University. She focuses on assisting faculty, students, and residents to explore innovative ways to effectively promote learning in both the classroom and the clinical settings. Promoting, influencing and nurturing a climate in which physicians, residents and students can teach — and learn — has been foremost among her career objectives. She has focused on providing an awareness of context for students, residents and faculty, urging them to be innovative in their many teaching environments and encouraging them to explore ways to understand how they can effectively promote learning in their interactions among themselves. Dr. Hafler directs the the Master of Health Science-Medical Education Track Degree. Dr. Hafler runs an active research program applying qualitative research methods in medical education. She collaborates with and mentors clinicians and faculty on the elements of qualitative research in the field of medical education and medical care. In turn, mentored faculty members have learned to develop and demonstrate the tools necessary to effectively teach and lead others. Dr. Hafler has published over 50 book chapters, curriculum materials and original articles in medical education and clinical journals. She has served as visiting professor internationally and has been invited to present regularly at regional and national professional meetings.Senior Administrative Assistant Yale School of Medicine Continuing Medicine Education; Program Administrator
Office of Admissions
Director of Admissions
Director, Admissions, Yale School of Medicine
Erik D. Choisy, JD, serves as Yale School of Medicine's director of admissions. A lawyer by training, Erik came to Yale after extensive experience in law school admissions and financial aid at the University of Michigan. Previously, he practiced law, first as a DLA Piper Krantz Fellow, working full time on public service and pro bono matters. After the fellowship, he worked in private practice in New York and Atlanta. Erik is also an AmeriCorps alumnus, having served two terms before law school with City Year, a program dedicated to bridging the education gap in high poverty communities. Outside the office, he is known for overambitious home cooking and exceptionally long bicycle rides.Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid
Professor of Pediatrics (Neurology); Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid; Director, START Program
Laura R. Ment, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, Yale University School of Medicine. A graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Ment received her training in both pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.Her clinical interests include neonatal brain injury in both preterm and term infants, including intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular white matter injury, neonatal seizures, stroke and neurogenetic developmental disorders. Dr. Ment also evaluates and cares for patients with developmental delay, epilepsy and neurogenetic disorders.A former member of the NANDS Council of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH and Chair of its Clinical Trial Subcommittee, Dr. Ment’s research interests include adaptive mechanisms of developing brain. She was the principal investigator of two multicenter clinical studies exploring prevention of injury in preterm neonates, the long-term neurodevelopmental and neuroimaging sequelae of preterm birth and the genetic mechanisms responsible for these changes. Her magnetic resonance studies investigate neural connectivity in the preterm brain and typically developing fetus across the third trimester of gestation, and her most recent work employs state of the art MR imaging and emerging molecular technologies to identify sensitive, reliable and actionable biomarkers of growth and maturation of the developing brain.Assistant Dean of Admissions
Professor of Neurosurgery; Assistant Dean for Admissions, Medical Education; Associate Vice Chair of Academic Affairs; Director, Stereotactic Radiosurgery; Director, Gamma Knife Center, YNHH; Director, Stereotactic Radiosurgery Fellowship
Dr Chiang leads the Brain Metastasis Program at Yale. This Program is comprised of a multi-disciplinary group of physicians in the specialty areas of Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Neurosurgery, Radiology, Pathology and Neuro-Oncology. This nationally unique program is specifically dedicated to the coordinated clinical management of patients with Brain Metastases as well as the performance of basic science, translational and clinical trial research in this area. This group meets at least once weekly at a CME-accredited Tumor Boardto discuss both the clinical and potential research pertinent to the management of our cancer patients with brain and spine metastases. Watch a video with Dr. Veronica Chiang>> As the lead Neurosurgeon in this Program, Dr Chiang specializes in: Standard neurosurgical management of brain metastases. Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment of brain metastases. This focused radiation tool can be used both as first line treatment, as well as salvage following whole brain radiation therapy and or prior radiosurgery. Particular interest in melanoma and lung cancer. The management of post-radiosurgery complications – tumor regrowth versus adverse radiation effects (radiation induced inflammation) Clinical Trials using novel immunotherapies for treatment of brain metastases (Clinical Trials.gov: Identifier # NCT02085070) Dr Chiang has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology here at Yale University School of Medicine. As the Medical Director of the Gamma Knife Center since 2006, Dr Chiang has participated in state and national discussions regarding the development of guidelines for the radiosurgical management of brain metastases. She is known nationally and internationally for her research on the clinical as well as radiological outcomes of radiosurgical treatment of brain metastases. (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier #:NCT02005614). She has also extensively published on the efficacy and outcome of radiosurgery for many other brain lesions. In addition, she is the director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Radiosurgery Fellowship Program for Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology. Laser Thermal Ablation (LTA) LTA is the use of heat emitted from a laser fiber to treat lesions in the brain. It is a cutting edge, minimally invasive technology that allows neurosurgeons to treat lesions inside the skull through a small incision visualized in real time using MRI monitoring. (link to Monteris website – MyBrainTumorOptions.com). As one of the first and longest users of MRI-guided LTA in the USA, Dr Chiang now has 4 years of experience treating a variety of brain tumors and is a national leader in the use of LTA treatment for brain metastases that have regrown following radiosurgery where no other treatment options have been available. She is currently the lead investigator on a clinical trial studying quality of life in patients with brain metastases regrowing after radiosurgery and the impact of LTA (LAASR study – Identifier #: NCT01651078) Dr Chiang also has a significant experience in the use of LTA in conjunction with targeted and immunotherapies especially for lung cancer and melanoma.Senior Associate Director of Admissions
Senior Associate Director, Admissions
Barbara Watts graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BS degree in Biology. After moving to Boston she worked at Harvard Medical School as a research assistant in a neurobiology lab. After a few years in the lab, Barbara returned to school and earned her Masters Degree in Secondary School Science teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education. After teaching middle- and high-school biology, she returned to Harvard Medical School to work for an organization studying child development in Tanzania. Barbara then moved back to Connecticut and has worked for Yale since 2005. She lives in Meriden with her husband, Brian and their awesome dog, Janet.Assistant Director of Admissions
Assistant Director of Admissions - YSM-2
Nancy Barrett came to the Yale School of Medicine after a 30-year career in Healthcare Management. She has a Princeton University undergraduate degree in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience, as well as a master's degree in business administration (MBA) with a concentration in Hospital & Healthcare Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Nancy has worked in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical industries and run her own health care consulting firm. Her consulting clients include hospitals, corporations, universities and the federal government. She has facilitated data driven decision-making, implementation and quality measurement. Nancy serves as an elected member of the Board of Finance in her town and volunteers as an alumni interviewer on the Princeton Alumni Schools Committee. Nancy and her husband, Dr. Sean Barrett (Yale Professor of Physics and Applied Physics), have raised their 3 children in North Haven, CT. In her spare time, Nancy enjoys playing tennis and golf, participating in a book club, playing the cello, gardening, cooking and traveling.Assistant Director of Admissions
YSM Assistant Director, Admissions
Vincent is an Assistant Director of Admissions at Yale School of Medicine. A native of New York, Vincent obtained his B.A. in Italian from Boston College. Afterwards, he attended the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, from which he obtained his M.S.Ed. in Higher Education. His master’s degree research explored the realignment and consolidation of the 14 (now 10) schools comprising the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. His professional interests include not only enrollment management, but also student financial wellness, college success, and the history of Higher Education in the United States. He is an active member of NAGAP, the Association for Graduate Enrollment Management. In his spare time, Vincent enjoys cooking, reading, visiting family, savoring great coffee, volleyball, and travelling. He lives in the Wooster Square neighborhood.Senior Administrative Assistant
Senior Administrative Assistant, Admissions
Heather joined the admissions office in April 2024 bringing over a decade of experience in administration. She attended Manhattanville University, earning her undergraduate degree in Business Management with a concentration in Marketing and minor in Psychology. She then went on to work in customer service and sales, eventually managing her own territory in Northern NJ for Verizon. After almost a decade in the sales and marketing industry, Heather transitioned to public school education in an administrative role, preparing the annual budget and serving as the school's Registrar and planner of major events and all communication. Her experience is vast as she was also tasked with troubleshooting most major software for the district and training colleagues and district families on new programs. She is a true team player and excited to bring her extensive skillset to the Admissions Office and support the Yale School of Medicine community. When not in the office, Heather enjoys spending time with her husband and two young children outdoors whether it be at the beach, on the mountains or just simply playing in the backyard. She is a self-proclaimed foodie and coffee enthusiast and loves finding new, local small business cafes and eateries to support in and around the New Haven area.
Biology and Medicine, Yale Journal of (YJBM)
Robert I. Levy Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Professor of Immunobiology; Associate Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine; Senior Vice Chief for Academic Development, Cardiovascular Medicine
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Director, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
As director of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, John Gallagher provides leadership and is responsible for the overall administration, organization, and development of the Medical Library, which strives to provide the Medical Center community with information and services that enhance teaching and learning, advance biomedical research, and improve clinical decision-making and the quality of patient care. He has overseen a major renovation of the library and the launch of several critical new services, including the Bioinformatics and Data Science/Services programs. He is a member of the Yale University Library Executive Committee and nationally served as chair of the Medical Library Association’s MLA InSight Initiative, a thought leadership initiative that brings information providers and medical librarians together to address issues of mutual interest related to scientific scholarly communication.For further information, see:http://library.medicine.yale.edu/about/staff2/john-gallagher-mlsAssociate Director
Holly Grossetta Nardini, MLS, is the Associate Director of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. Holly has worked at Yale for over 20 years, both at Sterling Memorial Library and the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. In between stints in New Haven, she lived twice in Italy and was a National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow. Holly participates in the overall leadership and management of the library, and directly oversees the research, clinical, education, collections, and technology services at the library. Previously she was the Coordinator of Expert Search Services and led a group of librarians who assisted faculty and trainees with systematic reviews and in-depth searching. She has served as library liaison to the Yale Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Diagnostic Radiology and Ophthalmology, where she was involved in medical education and research at all levels.Senior Administrative Assistant, Medical Library
As a Senior Administrative Assistant, Christine provides a high level of administrative and program support to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Coordinates day-to-day initiatives, plans and facilitates special events and programs. Handles or refers a wide range of questions about library services and facilities in person, by telephone, and via email. Please contact Christine for more information about: Places to Study and CollaborateRoom Reservations including: Simbonis Conference Room (101A), Cushing Center Conference Room, Historical Library, ClassroomsMedical Library AssociatesMedical Library Special EventsDirectional InquiriesGeneral Library questions Prior to joining the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library team Christine worked as an Operations Coordinate at Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation providing special project support, processing payroll, tracking deliverables, and was a contributing member on committees related to work/life balance, diversity and inclusion, hybrid remote work plans, and community outreach. Christine also has prior work experience supervising clerical staff, personnel management, inventory control, attendance management, staff training, invoicing, travel and meeting coordination, managing multiple projects, scheduling, and expense reporting. In her free time Christine is a competitive figure skater. She also enjoys volunteering with various social service organizations.Research and Education Librarian; Research and Education Librarian for Nursing , Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Clinical Librarian
Alexandria provides in-depth reference, information, research and consultation services for clinical professionals and users in the health sciences community, including literature searches in support of systematic reviews, research, grants, clinical practice, animal use, teaching, and publishing.System and Application Specialist
Justin is responsible for the framework, security, and maintenance of medical library's systems as well as application development to meet the needs of the medical library staff and mission. His focus includes cloud infrastructure, automation, and innovative application development to support the medical school's mission.Clinical Librarian
I am a Clinical Librarian at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library dedicated to serving the research needs of the Medical Campus. I am a point of contact for all things library, including support for literature searching and citation management software programs such as EndNote. Please contact me with your questions.For more information about me, please visit this pageBiomedical Sciences Research Support Librarian and Lecturer in Epidemiology; Bioinformatics Support, Fellow of Ezra Stiles College, Medical Library
Rolando oversees the Yale Medical Library Bioinformatics Support Program and is Lecturer in Epidemiology for the Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Department, Yale School of Public Health. This end-user-centered bioinformatics program provides resources, training, consultations, and collaboration to biomedical sciences researchers at Yale including finding, retrieving, analyzing and sharing molecular datasets.