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In a paper published September 20 in The BMJ, Jodi Sherman, MD, and colleagues encourage clinicians to embrace planetary health care, a broadening of the concept of “first, do no harm” beyond caring for patients to also include preserving the natural world on which human health relies.
- September 24, 2021
A pilot program developed by researchers at Yale Cancer Center that offers patients next day access for oncologic consultation showed reduced wait times for initial access to cancer care and increased patient satisfaction.
- September 24, 2021
We are pleased to announce that Ambrose Wong, MD, MSEd, MHS, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, has been awarded a K23 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The K23MH126366 grant, “Clinical Decision Support Tool to Assess Risk and Prevent Agitation Events” began on 9/15/21 and was awarded for four years.
- September 24, 2021
“Teaching yourself, patients, and others is what the profession of medicine entails.” Assistant Professor Oluwatosin Adeyemo, MD, MPH, shared this idea with the 104 first-year Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD students during their two-week Introduction to the Profession (iPro) course.
- September 24, 2021
“Throughout high school, college, medical school, and beyond, I have always been influenced most by the truly great teachers that I have encountered."
- September 24, 2021
Patients who identify as racial and ethnic minorities prefer medical providers who share and understand their culture, but those patients are not as likely as others to access providers who can provide such care, according to a new study co-authored by Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, and Albert Powers, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.
- September 23, 2021
Yale’s Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) Director Donna Spiegelman, ScD, and her team have recently received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative award to continue their Rigorous, Rapid, & Relevant Evidence aDaptation & Implementation to Ending the HIV Epidemic (R3EDI) Implementation Science (IS) Hub for another two years. In addition to the R3EDI renewal, they have also been awarded support for a new EHE project, led by CMIPS associate faculty member Debbie Humphries, PhD, and Dr. Spiegelman, entitled “St. Louis Enhancing Engagement and Retention in HIV/AIDS Care” (STEER), which focuses on identifying the barriers and facilitators of engagement along the HIV care continuum. These projects exemplify CMIPS’ engagement in the national effort to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic through innovative methods, promoting ethical practices, and building the capacity of a new generation of IS researchers.
- September 22, 2021
The program will explore re-connection to the self through mind, body, and spirit. It will provide survivors with a means of becoming reacquainted with their bodies, help them become grounded in the present moment, and allow them to explore the benefits of mindfulness as they flow breath to movement in guided practice and meditation.
- September 22, 2021
The Yale School of Public Health announced today that the White House has invited Anne Wyllie, principal investigator of the SalivaDirect Initiative, to participate this week with global leaders from government, academia, industry and elsewhere in the White House 2021 Global COVID-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better to Prepare for the Next.
- September 22, 2021Source: healthline
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