David Leffell, M.D., director of the Yale Medical Group (YMG) and professor of dermatology and surgery at Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed Deputy Dean for Clinical Affairs at the medical school.
“In his new role as deputy dean, Dr. Leffell will fill a vital role in our senior leadership team at Yale School of Medicine,” said Dean Robert J. Alpern. “He will be responsible for the critically important growth and development of the school’s clinical practice. The strategic vision for the clinical practice is to provide exceptional care that is nationally recognized and to continually improve the level of care provided by translating research findings into clinical practice.”
Alpern said Leffell will work closely with department chairs, faculty and hospital leadership to oversee the development of clinical centers of excellence and multidisciplinary programs. He also is charged with forging a close, collaborative relationship with Yale–New Haven Hospital and will be responsible for clinical space development.
“We are at a critical juncture,” Leffell said. “We now have a unique opportunity to make clinical medicine at Yale nationally recognized for its excellence in patient care.” He will continue as director of the YMG, which, under his leadership, has made substantial progress in negotiating contracts, marketing its services, and planning strategically in a changing health care environment.
A graduate of Yale College and the McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Leffell completed his residency training in internal medicine at Cornell Cooperating Hospitals and then in dermatology at Yale–New Haven Hospital. He did a clinical research fellowship in dermatology at Yale followed by a clinical fellowship in dermatologic surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.
Author of the popular book, “Total Skin,” Leffell is an expert clinician, specializing in skin cancer diagnosis and surgical treatment using the Mohs micrographic technique. The Cutaneous Oncology Unit that he founded in 1988 now performs specialized surgical treatment on more than 2,500 patients annually. He will continue his active clinical practice in addition to his new administrative responsibilities.
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