Dr. Ferrante is a Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine physician at the Yale School of Medicine who conducts epidemiologic and clinical research at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics. The overarching goal of her research program is to understand and improve the functional outcomes of older ICU patients. Dr. Ferrante is a strong advocate of integrating geriatrics principles into critical care medicine and increasing collaboration between the subspecialties and geriatrics. To that end, she co-founded/co-chairs the Aging in Critical Care Interest Group of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and co-chairs the Medical Subspecialties Section of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). She is currently funded by a Beeson award from the NIH/NIA and the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. From a clinical perspective, Dr. Ferrante is an attending physician in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of Yale New Haven Hospital, where she is the physician leader of STEPS-ICU early mobilization program.
Research Focus: Functional outcomes after a critical illness among older adults
Active projects:
Completed Grant Funding:
Awards (selected):
Internal Medicine residency: Columbia University Medical Center
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship: Yale School of Medicine, 2015
Geriatrics Research Fellowship: Yale School of Medicine, 2015
Master of Health Science degree: Yale School of Medicine, 2016
| Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Early Career Achievement Award | ATS Critical Care Assembly | 2022 |
| Young Physician-Scientist Award | American Society of Clinical Investigation | 2022 |
| Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award | American Geriatrics Society | 2021 |
| The Martin Hson Holmdahl Honorary Lecture | The Annual National Anesthesia and ICU Congress | 2019 |
| Inaugural Arti Hurria Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Subspecialties of Internal Medicine | American Geriatrics Society, Portland, OR | 2019 |
| Intensive Care Global Rising Star Award | Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS), Adelaide, Australia | 2018 |
| Outstanding Recent Graduate Award | Stony Brook School of Medicine | 2018 |
| Star Research Award | Society of Critical Care Medicine, 46th Annual Critical Care Congress, Honolulu, HI | 2017 |
| Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Award | 2016 | |
| American Geriatrics Society (AGS)/Merck New Investigator Award | 2016 | |
| NIH Loan Repayment Program awardee | 2016 | |
| T. Franklin Williams Scholar Award | 2015 | |
| Top Poster Award | Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA | 2015 |
| Abstract Scholarship | American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference, San Diego, CA | 2014 |
| Butler-Williams Scholar | National Institute on Aging (NIA), Bethesda, MD | 2014 |
| Organization | Role | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ethics Advisory Workgroup and Triage Protocol Drafting Committee, Yale-New Haven Hospital | Committee Member | 2020 |
| Program Committee, American Thoracic Society (ATS) Critical Care Assembly | Committee Member | 2020 - Present |
| Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS) Prediction and State-of-the-Art Task Force, Society of Critical Care Medicine PICS Prediction and State-of-the-Art Task Force | Committee Member | 2019 - 2020 |
| Yale School of Medicine, Search Committee for Section Chief of Endocrinology | Member | 2019 - 2020 |
| Yale School of Medicine Admissions Committee | Member | 2018 - Present |
| Planning Committee, U13 "A Transdisciplinary Approach to Engage Specialty Investigators in Aging Research," conference on "Embedding/Sustaining a Focus on Function in Specialty Research and Care", National Institute on Aging (NIA) | Member | 2018 - 2019 |
| Yale Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (PCCSM) Research Conference | Co-Director | 2018 - Present |
| Yale Department of Medicine Diversity Committee | Member | 2016 - Present |
| American Thoracic Society (ATS) Aging in Critical Care Interest Group | Co-Chair | 2016 - Present |
| Ethics Committee, Yale-New Haven Hospital | Member | 2012 - Present |