Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D.

Yale Medicine Magazine, 2009 - Winter

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Michael Simons, M.D.
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D.
Erik M. Shapiro, Ph.D
Edward Zigler, Ph.D.
The long view of psychoanalysis
From art to medicine and back—how one physician pursued her dreams
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Marcella Nunez-Smith

Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received the 2008 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship from the American Association of Medical Colleges. The $15,000 fellowship recognizes a junior faculty member who leads efforts to remedy inequities in medical education and health care. Nunez-Smith is assistant director of the School of Medicine’s Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, which prepares physician leaders to improve the nation’s health and health care system by translating research into action at the local, state and national levels.

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Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease) and of Public Health (Social And Behavioral Sciences) & Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Founding Director, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), Yale School of Medicine; Director, Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity; Deputy Director for Health Equity Research and Workforce Development, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI); Director, Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership

Michael Simons, M.D.

Erik M. Shapiro, Ph.D

Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D.

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