Cynthia Frary McNamara, MD, FACP

Dr. Cynthia Frary McNamara is an Associate Program Director for the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program, (TIMRP), for which she is also serving as the Interim Director of Ambulatory Education and the Interim Director of the Clinical Competency Committee. Dr. McNamara is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and is an internist at the Veterans Administration Hospital Connecticut. She is honored to provide primary care for our country’s veterans and to teach medical trainees.

Dr. McNamara is interested in mentorship; she directs the MentorAdvisorCoach (MAC) Program for the TIMRP and is a mentor to approximately fifty trainees. Dr. McNamara's interests also include medical education, particularly topics related to social and identity-based determinants of health and global and rural health that contribute to health disparity. She has received two Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar awards to serve as a teaching physician in Uganda and Rwanda and has worked providing primary care in areas of Central America. Cynthia received a Yale Department of Medicine Educational Research Grant support work on a project entitled Needs Assessment for Rural Medicine Curriculum in United States Medical Schools; an abstract has been submitted to be presented at the 2024 SGIM National Meeting. She is part of the Women's and Gender Health Education core faculty and has taught Medication Abortion and Abortion Regulations and Patient Care, highlighting how abortion regulations contribute to health disparity; some of this work has been published, and an abstract has been submitted to be presented at the 2024 SGIM National Meeting. Dr. McNamara and colleagues created an outpatient elective in Addiction Medicine for the TIMRP, an oral presentation describing the process, and this elective was presented at the Association of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AMERSA) conference in 2023.