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Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)

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Assistant Clinical Professor

Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine

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Titles

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)

Assistant Clinical Professor; Lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine

Biography

Sakena Abedin, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a Lecturer in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.

Dr. Abedin is a practicing primary care pediatrician who sees patients at Fair Haven Community Healthcare. She is also a historian who studies 20th century American medicine.

Dr. Abedin’s research focuses on medicine’s encounters with the social world and the various ways in which ‘social’ problems become medicalized in clinical research and practice. Her dissertation is about the history of clinical and social science research on patient behavior, specifically, patients’ compliance with their dodctor’s advice.

Her teaching interests include the history of healthcare for underserved populations and the history of race and disease in American medicine.

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Education & Training

PhD
Yale University, History of Science and Medicine (2016)
MD
Washington University (2002)

Research

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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Sakena Abedin's published research.

Publications

2012

2009

Clinical Care

Overview

Sakena Abedin MD PhD is a primary care pediatrician who sees patients at Fair Haven Community Health Center. She is the co-director of the Clinic for Autism Diagnosis in Primary Care.

Dr. Abedin is also a lecturer in the history department at Yale, where she teaches undergraduates about the history of the American healthcare system and the history of race and disease in American medicine.

Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD is assistant professor of pediatrics for Yale School of Medicine

Clinical Specialties

Pediatrics

Board Certifications

  • Pediatrics

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pediatrics
    Original Certification Date
    2005

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