Beyond Sterling Hall Past Issues
2025
- Thriving TogetherAs patterns begin to emerge, choosing our way forward will require increased communication and interaction, creating a supportive environment where ideas can triumph over fears, and developing creative and innovative new strategies.
- Creating the FutureEvery time I witness the transformation of committed scientists, clinicians, and students into passionate artists, and the uncomplicated enthusiasm of the audience, including children, for the musicians, I am reminded of the amazing creativity, conviction, and power of our community.
- GratitudeI am grateful to President McInnis, Provost Strobel, and the Yale Corporation for the privilege of continuing to serve in this role.
- Moving ForwardDuring the last few days, reports from federal agencies regarding pauses in travel, communications, and grant reviews have raised uncertainties and may create confusion or anxiety among members of our community.
2024
- Being PresentNear the end of my residency, my beautiful, talented, and irreverently witty mother-in-law developed an expressive aphasia and was diagnosed with an inoperable grade IV glioblastoma multiforme.
- Science MattersThrough the thesis process, students learn the importance of observation and formulation of a question leading to the expression of a testable hypothesis.
- OptimismAs one of my former chairs used to say to faculty when we were feeling daunted about designing a new clinical or educational program or achieving a fundable score on a grant, “You have to plan for success.”
- Freedom and ResponsibilityFreedom of expression is sometimes conflated with academic freedom, but the two differ in ways that relate to our obligation to provide a robust and productive learning environment.
- Tasks at HandAfter a year focused on clinical strategic planning and implementing a new funds flow model, we turned to our goals related to education, research, and climate and culture at this year’s retreat.
- PerspectiveDays of joy, these rituals enable us to take time out from the routine and appreciate the talent, excellence, and ideals of our students.
- Living Our ValuesAs members of Yale School of Medicine, our commitment to the pursuit of discovery, as well as our student and professional oaths, require that we engage in inquiry, acknowledge each person’s humanity, and honor life.
- Funds Flow: How's It Going?Many of our peers have adopted this type of formulaic approach to funds flow and have found that aligning incentives between the school and health system results in increased revenues to both. We are seeing the same pattern.
- Harnessing AIThe two YSM panels have been meeting to identify our strengths and differentiators as a school and university; needs within the school; opportunities for collaboration; transformative questions; risks; and the role for Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, and academia in general in addressing these questions.