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The theme of the newest edition is diversity and distinction—as they apply both to people and to ideas.
- January 21, 2020
Debra Brandt, D.O. and Kevin Kim, M.D. were each honored with the Yale Cancer Center (YCC) Award for Clinical Excellence at YCC’s annual Conclave on Monday, January 13. The night celebrated the accomplishments of goals set for 2019 and honored faculty and staff with clinical and research prizes.
- January 21, 2020
Most people attend medical school to become physicians; some, however, use their degrees to pursue other goals.
- January 21, 2020
Elevate, a policy lab at Yale School of Medicine and Hopelab, a social innovation lab in San Francisco, Calif., recently teamed up in a collaboration focused on the MoMba® app, a social media application designed to strengthen the mental health of mothers as well as their connections with their young children.
- January 20, 2020
Scott Huntington, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of Medicine (Hematology), has been named Medical Director for the Hematology Outpatient Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Terri Parker, M.D., assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology), has been appointed the inaugural Assistant Medical Director for the Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center in North Haven, which includes multiple myeloma and benign hematology care.
- January 20, 2020
The results of a field study of more than 1,200 people attending multi-day arts and music festivals in the United States and United Kingdom confirm previous laboratory research indicating that psychedelic substances enhance feelings of social connectedness and improve mental well-being, the authors say.
- January 17, 2020
On Jan. 17, during a four-day trip to Nigeria that is part of the Yale Africa Initiative, Yale President Peter Salovey met with officials to finalize plans for expanding the HAPPINESS Project, a program of the Yale Department of Psychiatry.
- January 17, 2020
Thyroid Cancer, Genetic Variations, and Cell Phones Linked in New Yale School of Public Health Study
Radiation from cell phones is associated with higher rates of thyroid cancer among people with genetic variations in specific genes, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds.
- January 16, 2020
Amir Garakani, MD, DFAPA, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, will be inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists at the organization’s Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on February 20.
- January 16, 2020
Yale doctors have developed a way to create vascular grafts from stem cells that are as strong as the original blood vessels they would replace.
