At the start of the new academic year, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Steven Possick as Medical Director of 5-2 and Firm Chief for the Goodyer Teaching Service, Dr. Nathan Kruger as Medical Director of Verdi 5 East and the Heart Failure service there, and an expanded role for Dr. Ron Nudel as Senior Medical Director for Inpatient & Consultative Cardiology at York Street covering 5-7 and Blue and White Teams as well as providing support to 5-3.
Dr. Possick was raised in the Westville section of New Haven and attended Williams College before moving on to Mount Sinai Medical School. He came to Yale in 1998 where he completed his residency in internal medicine. He remained at Yale as a chief resident and cardiology fellow and joined the faculty in 2013. He joined the Care Signature team at Yale-New Haven Health in 2020 and currently serves as the clinical lead for Care Signature for HVC. Steve is excited to take on the role of Firm Chief of the Goodyer teaching service and hopes to build on the wonderful legacy left by Drs. Lynda Rosenfeld and Arthur Seltzer.
Dr. Kruger is a proud graduate of the congestive heart failure fellowship at Yale University as well as the internal medicine residency program. He earned a BA cum laude in chemistry from Cornell University and an MD from New York Medical College. He completed Fellowship training in Cardiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Dr Kruger joined the clinical faculty of Yale in 2013, actively participating in both general consultative cardiology and heart failure.
Dr. Nudel completed medical school at New York University and then Stony Brook University for residency, fellowship, and interventional cardiology training. He has been an admitting attending community cardiologist since 1988 and joined the Yale faculty in 2017. In 2020, he was appointed Medical Director of 5-7 and for the Blue Consult team. Ron has led a number of important operational changes with the Blue Service including establishing primary coverage of patients in the Emergency Department. In addition, he has set the standard for Medical Director-Patient Service Manager Dyad partnerships. Ron is excited to expand his administrative and leadership duties in the Section and help implement clinical operational changes to improve patient experience and outcomes.
Best,
Nihar and Eric
Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Vice Chief, Clinical Operations, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Investigator, Center For Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Eric J. Velazquez, MD
Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine
Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale New Haven Health