YSM DEI News

Formerly called the Conclave Awards, the 2025 Spring Yale Cancer Center awards honored research, clinical expertise, and support staff at the Hotel Marcel, New Haven on April 1, 2025.

Angelina Spicer, a stand-up comic, producer, writer, and self-described “accidental activist,” was honored March 22, 2025 with the Yale Department of Psychiatry Mental Health Advocacy Award.

In the latest Yale Child Study Center  “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD, PCC, reflects on a recent Grand Rounds talk, presented by Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, and Maria Restrepo-Toro, MSN, BSN, representing the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), within the Department of Psychiatry.

El proyecto Semillas de Triunfo, de la organización Ciencia Puerto Rico en colaboración con la Universidad de Yale, será ofrecido a niñas de sexto a octavo grado, en la ciudad de New Haven.

CienciaPR's executive director Greetchen Díaz Muñoz always dreamed of growing Semillas de Triunfo, one of the organization's flagship programs, outside of Puerto Rico. This past Saturday, January 25, 2025, ten years after founding the program, her yearning to create seedbeds of girls leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in other regions was fulfilled with the launch of the second chapter of Semillas de Triunfo in New Haven, Connecticut, known as Seeds of Success-New Haven. Seeds of Success-New Haven is being conducted in collaboration with Yale University. It is being led there by Carolina Machado, project manager, and Giovanna Guerrero Medina, former executive director of CienciaPR and now a senior advisor to the organization.

For the latest Yale Child Study Center “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD, interviewed Beth Heinz, MHA, MSW, who recently stepped into the role of senior vice president for women’s and children’s services at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH).

For the latest Yale Child Study Center “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD, asked Yale Department of Pediatrics Professor Maryellen Flaherty-Hewitt, MD, to share her perspective on the promise a coach approach may hold for faculty and trainees within her department.

Never Enough: ADHD Experiences in Asian Americans Working with Limited English Proficient Patients and their Interpreters WE Medicine: Convergence of Western and Eastern Medicine to Develop Future Medicines These titles represent a few of the breakout session topics at the day-long annual Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association Region I/II conference on Saturday, October 12, at Yale School of Medicine.

Following David Blight’s lecture on the findings of the Yale and Slavery history project, Yale School of Medicine convened a panel of faculty to discuss efforts to confront that history, restore, rebuild trust, and build authentic community -- including in caring for the New Haven community and in creating partnerships with HBCUs.