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    Jennifer Possick, MD

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    Medical Director, Winchester Center for Lung Disease, Winchester Center for Lung Disease

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    jennifer.possick@yale.edu
    203.785.6359

    Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

    PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

    New Haven, CT 06510-8057

    United States

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    Medical Director, Winchester Center for Lung Disease, Winchester Center for Lung Disease

    Biography

    Dr. Possick attended Yale University School of Medicine and continued at Yale to complete both a residency in Internal Medicine in 2005 as well as a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 2008.

    She is the Medical Director of the Winchester Center for Lung Disease and leads the Comprehensive Pulmonary Medicine Program, which forms the foundation of the Winchester Center's pulmonary consultation practice. She is also a member of the multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital, focusing on treatment-related complications and pulmonary comorbidities in patients not only with lung cancer, but with other solid tumor malignancies as well. In 2020, she founded the Post-COVID Recovery Program, which provided evaluation and support for survivors of SARS-CoV-2 infection with persistent respiratory symptoms or complications through 2023. This program, which collaborated with colleagues from cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, physical therapy, and social work, provided the foundation for both the Long COVID Consultation clinic developed in General Internal Medicine as well as the Post-ICU Clinic in WCLD.

    Though her practice remains diverse, she specializes in the evaluation and management of the complex pulmonary problems encountered by individuals undergoing treatment for malignancy, particularly pulmonary toxicities related to immunotherapies, targeted therapies, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, as well as the management of pulmonary comorbidities in the setting of lung cancer.

    Beyond this focus, she is committed to improving patient/caregiver health literacy, improving transitions of care, and fostering multi-disciplinary collaboration in the care of the multi-morbid population with chronic lung disease. She precepts in the teaching clinic at the WCLD and is devoted to enriching the ambulatory pulmonary curriculum for the PCCSM fellows and IM residents.

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    Fellowship
    Yale University School of Medicine (2008)
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    Yale-New Haven Hospital (2005)
    MD
    Yale University School of Medicine (2002)
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    College of William and Mary (1996)

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    Pulmonary Medicine; Thoracic Diseases

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    Jennifer Possick, MD, is a pulmonologist who primarily cares for patients who have had pulmonary complications resulting from cancer treatment, including side effects from chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, and stem cell transplant. She is also the director of the Winchester Center for Lung Disease pulmonary practice and the Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program, where she cares for people who have ongoing pulmonary issues after recovering from the virus.

    Dr. Possick chose to focus on outpatient pulmonary medicine in part because she wanted to have the opportunity to form ongoing relationships with her patients. In college, she’d had the opportunity to work closely with a community clinic doctor who was “the archetypical family physician.” Throughout her medical training, she was guided by the way he valued his relationships with his patients and their families, and the impact this made on their lives. “Now in my own career, it is the relationships that I have with my patients and other caregivers that give me the greatest satisfaction,” Dr. Possick says.

    She is excited about working in a field that is constantly evolving, offering new, life-changing therapies to so many patients. “Therapies for lung cancer continue to grow rapidly,” she says. “It is like night and day from where we were a few years ago, but with advances come new challenges.”

    Dr. Possick collaborates closely with other Yale Medicine specialists at Smilow Cancer Hospital in interventional pulmonology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, and thoracic surgery, who are contributing to the body of research in these areas. She has worked with national and international colleagues to develop recommendations for future investigations into immunotherapy-related pulmonary complications with the goal of developing more comprehensive guidelines for the management of these patients.

    Dr. Possick is an assistant professor of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine and the medical director of the Winchester Center for Lung Disease, where she works to train the next generation of pulmonary physicians. She works with colleagues in the clinic and across the medical center to offer pulmonary-focused, multidisciplinary evaluation and care for patients recovering from COVID-19. While most people who have been infected with the virus recover and do well, the Post-COVID-19 Recovery Program helps those who continue to experience a myriad of symptoms well beyond the acute illness, including difficulty breathing, chest discomfort and fatigue.

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    Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

    PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

    New Haven, CT 06510-8057

    United States

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