Topics in Global Medicine and Health

Dr. Fabian M. Laage Gaupp graduated from Medical School at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and completed his surgical internship at Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He then pursued residency training in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Yale New Haven Hospital, where he served as Chief Resident of Interventional Radiology. In 2021, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Vascular and Interventional Radiology in Yale's Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Laage Gaupp is dedicated to training the next generation of Interventional Radiologists. After serving as Assistant Program Director and Medical Student Clerkship Director for Yale's Interventional Radiology education program for several years, he took over as Interventional Radiology Program Director in 2024. He specializes in minimally invasive treatments for Men’s and Women’s Health, offering innovative solutions for conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and uterine fibroids. Through image-guided procedures like prostate artery embolization and uterine fibroid embolization, Dr. Laage Gaupp provides effective, outpatient-based treatment options that eliminate the need for major surgery, allowing patients to return home the same day. As a co-founder of Road2IR, an international consortium led by Yale, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania, Emory, and other institutions in North America and Europe, Dr. Laage Gaupp has contributed to establishing several Interventional Radiology training programs in East Africa, expanding access to minimally invasive procedures to more patients.

Dr. Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) at Yale School of Public Health. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Schwartz is a Firm Chief on the general medicine inpatient teaching service at Yale New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus, overseeing patient care and teaching activities on Verdi 5 North. He places an emphasis on patient quality and safety and the patient experience and engages in research in those realms. He directs a large quality improvement project aiming to improve patient care, patient-centered communication, and inter-professional engagement in the inpatient setting.Globally, his focus centers around non-communicable diseases (NCDs). He is an active member of the global NCD advocacy movement. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network and is a member of the East African NCD Alliance post-2015 Implementation Initiative. His research focuses on improving integrated health service delivery for NCDs in Uganda. He is a co-founder, and the US-based co-Director, of the Uganda Initiative for the Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD). This multi-sectoral collaboration brings together leaders from the Ugandan Ministry of Health, academia (Yale School of Medicine and Makerere University College of Health Sciences), civil society organizations, and the health system to address the often fragmented nature of NCD service delivery and training. Dr. Schwartz is Medical Director of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN), a large cohort study of non-communicable diseases (PI: Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith), based at the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC). Dr. Schwartz has been directing "Topics in Global Medicine" (formerly the Tropical Medicine Course) since 2010. This interdisciplinary elective course for health professions students at Yale presents a wide range of globally relevant health issues in an interactive format.