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Sharon Anoush Chekijian, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
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Additional Titles

Medical Director, Patient Experience, Emergency Medicine

Medical Director, Yale New Haven Hospital PA/NP Post-graduate Training Program, Department of Emergency Medicine

Faculty Member, Division of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Medical Director, PA/NP group

Chair, Patient Experience Forum

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Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Medical Director, Patient Experience, Emergency Medicine; Medical Director, Yale New Haven Hospital PA/NP Post-graduate Training Program, Department of Emergency Medicine; Faculty Member, Division of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Medical Director, PA/NP group; Chair, Patient Experience Forum

Biography

Dr. Chekijian joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty in 2007 where she works full time as an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine as well as in the Section of Administration. She has served as the inaugural Medical Director of patient experience since 2011. She is also the Medical Director of the Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner group in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Chekijian is a seasoned educator and is the founding Medical Director of the APP post-graduate training program which admitted its 1st cohort in 2015. She completed the Yale Medical Education Fellowship in 2014.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include emergency care systems' development in low and middle-income countries, unintentional injury prevention in low and middle-income countries, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA). Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and supported from a research standpoint by the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 under the working title “The Hidden Map” that premiered at the Toronto Pomegranate Film Festival in 2019.

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Education & Training

MPH
Yale University, Health Policy and Administration (2011)
Resident
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2007)
MD
Yale University School of Medicine (2001)

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Individual Achievement Award

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    Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

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    Catalyst Award

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    Presidential Momentum Award

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    Fulbright Scholar

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Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Emergency Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Emergency Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2008

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