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Woolsey Hall was filled with family and friends to celebrate the graduation of the 73 members of Yale School of Medicine’s Physician Assistant Online Class of 2024.

As deputy dean, Samuel Ball, PhD, will oversee the school's faculty lifecycle, including hiring and onboarding, appointments and promotions, professional development, and leave and retirement policies.

In the latest Yale Child Study Center “On Leadership” blog post and newsletter column, Daryn David, PhD reflects on a recent YCSC Grand Rounds session she hosted with Nii Addy, PhD, who serves as the Albert E. Kent Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale.

In the latest edition of a spotlight series launched in early 2023 to feature integrated business operations (IBO) and administration staff at the Department of Psychiatry and Yale Child Study Center, now also including the Department of Pediatrics, meet IBO Communications Officers Chris Gardner, Alexa Tomassi, and Crista Marchesseault.

Ardavan Mohammad Aghaei, MD, MPH; Anahita Bassir Nia, MD; Jeremy Weleff, DO; and Bradford Martins, MD, PhD, are co-authors of a review of literature on psychedelic studies on individuals with alcohol use disorder. The review was published in Current Addiction Reports.

Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Steven M. Southwick Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child Study Center and of neuroscience, spoke to NBC News about the growing concern over online gambling among teenagers.

The fifth annual early autism conference at Yale took place on Thursday, April 18, 2024, with approximately 100 participants. The event was hosted by the Yale Child Study Center Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism (SANA) Program, directed by Emily Fraser Beedy Professor Kasia Chawarska.

Residents Sarah Abdallah, MD; Shivani Bhatt, MD, PhD; and Henry Kietzman, MD, PhD, have been named recipients of the 2024 Thomas P. Detre Fellowship Award in Translational Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry.

A small group of Yale medical and public health students collaborated with faculty mentors to develop a clinical skills-based simulation session on caring for transgender and gender-diverse patients, in which all MD students will participate in during their clinical year.