https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-rss/?orgId=123277&title=News A selection of the latest research, academic, and other newsworthy developments at Safdar Lab en-us Copyright 2026 Yale School of Medicine Thu, 14 May 2026 19:08:44 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-ranks-2-nationally-in-nih-funding/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-ranks-2-nationally-in-nih-funding/ For the eighth consecutive year, the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine was recognized among the nation’s leaders in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, ranking #2 in the U.S. according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. This year’s achievement is marked by an extraordinary expansion in faculty success, with 14 faculty members receiving NIH funding and 9 among the top 100 NIH-funded emergency medicine investigators nationwide. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/study-extensive-benefits-emergency-department-clinical-trials/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/study-extensive-benefits-emergency-department-clinical-trials/ A new study published in JAMA Network Open reveals that participation in emergency department-based clinical trials delivers substantial benefits that extend far beyond improved patient outcomes. Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2026/02/11/seven-day-injectable-daily-tablet-buprenorphine-equally-effective-ed-patients-opioid-use https://news.yale.edu/2026/02/11/seven-day-injectable-daily-tablet-buprenorphine-equally-effective-ed-patients-opioid-use In a Yale study, researchers found that seven-day injectable buprenorphine and daily tablet buprenorphine are equally safe and effective in engaging patients with opioid use disorder in treatment after an emergency department visit. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/quick-question-what-is-the-next-era-of-womens-health-research/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/quick-question-what-is-the-next-era-of-womens-health-research/ During an interview on the Health & Veritas podcast, Basmah Safdar, MD, discussed the discoveries women’s health research has uncovered and where she sees the work going next. Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2026/01/27/early-do-not-attempt-resuscitation-orders-arent-driving-disparities-cardiac-arrest https://news.yale.edu/2026/01/27/early-do-not-attempt-resuscitation-orders-arent-driving-disparities-cardiac-arrest A new Yale study examines whether survival differences by race and ethnicity persist among patients with do-not-attempt-resuscitation orders placed early after cardiac arrest. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:00:00 Z https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/well/womens-health-myths.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/well/womens-health-myths.html When it comes to heart health, immunity, reproductive health and more, misconceptions abound. Maggie Astor, a reporter for The New York Times, interviewed doctors and researchers about the biggest misconceptions and what they were most eager to clear up. Dr. Basmah Safdar, Director of Women's Health Research at Yale, highlighted critical sex differences in both heart disease and immunology. Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:00:00 Z https://som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas/basmah-safdar-why-women-experience-illness-differently-199 https://som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas/basmah-safdar-why-women-experience-illness-differently-199 On this week's episode of Health & Veritas, a podcast produced by Yale School of Management and Yale School of Public Health, professors and physicians Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Basmah Safdar, a Yale School of Medicine emergency physician and an expert on sex-specific differences in cardiovascular and microvascular health, which have important implications for the understanding and treatment of heart attacks, long COVID, and other conditions. Listen at the link below or on your favorite podcast player. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/optimism-future-of-the-biomedical-workforce/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/optimism-future-of-the-biomedical-workforce/ Dean Nancy J. Brown, MD, participated in a conference panel where experts discussed the challenges faced by the biomedical workforce and how to ensure a strong future. Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/harnessing-the-power-of-research-for-patients-challenged-by-long-covid/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/harnessing-the-power-of-research-for-patients-challenged-by-long-covid/ After surviving three weeks on a ventilator, Kathy thought her COVID battle was over. She was wrong. Crushing fatigue, "COVID toes," and hair loss left her feeling like a ghost of her former self. Then came an unexpected lifeline: Yale's RECOVER-ENERGIZE study. Through heart rate monitoring and activity pacing, this NIH-funded research gave Kathy something she'd lost—hope and control over her symptoms. Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/results-realized-better-understanding-the-structure-of-ca125/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/results-realized-better-understanding-the-structure-of-ca125/ Women’s Health Research at Yale’s 2023 Pilot Project led by Yale Chemist and Investigator Stacy Malaker, PhD, is now complete. Developing Early Detection Diagnostic Tools in Ovarian Cancer was made possible by the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award, an endowed fund of the Pilot Project Program. Created by Yale College Class of 1983 graduates, Wendy and Tom Naratil, the award provides up to $50,000 for research into women’s health each year. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/be-part-of-advancing-womens-health-research/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/be-part-of-advancing-womens-health-research/ This summer, The Gates Foundation announced an unprecedented, transformational investment into women’s health research. I see fall 2025 as an inflection point – a time to right a course where just 10 percent of public biomedical research funding is allocated to women’s health. The time for investment is now. Especially when, according to McKinsey & Company, every dollar invested in women’s health research yields a $3 return in economic growth due to an increase in workforce participation, enhanced productivity, and improved health outcomes for women. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/womens-health-research-at-yale-fuels-new-scientific-discovery/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/womens-health-research-at-yale-fuels-new-scientific-discovery/ With a mission to catalyze research that improves the lives of women, Women’s Health Research at Yale’s Pilot Project Program forges ahead with its innovative and replicable model to better understand sex differences in health in order to improve the health of all. In its 28th year, the annual Pilot Project Program injects crucial funding into research at the earliest stages of discovery into health conditions that differently, disproportionately, and uniquely affect women. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/welcoming-basmah-safdar-md-as-director-of-womens-health-research-at-yale/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/welcoming-basmah-safdar-md-as-director-of-womens-health-research-at-yale/ On July 1, Women’s Health Research at Yale welcomed the center’s second-ever director, Basmah Safdar, MD. Safdar is both a clinician and researcher: an emergency medicine physician at Yale New Haven Hospital since 2000, she is a recognized scholar in sex differences in microvascular health as well as a professor of emergency medicine. Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/increases-in-physician-attrition-rates-could-worsen-shortages/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/increases-in-physician-attrition-rates-could-worsen-shortages/ A decade-long analysis of physicians reveals an acceleration in doctors permanently leaving practice, a trend likely to worsen physician shortages. Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/womens-health-research-at-yale-named-founding-member-of-the-milken-institutes-womens-health-network/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/womens-health-research-at-yale-named-founding-member-of-the-milken-institutes-womens-health-network/ Women’s Health Research at Yale was named a founding member of the Milken Institute’s Women’s Health Network. The 75 founding members bring together expertise from a wide variety of sectors including academia/research, advocacy, business, community-based organizations, finance, health systems, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, technology, and nonprofit organizations. Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 Z https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2025/08/08/the-gates-foundation-commits-2-5b-to-womens-health-00499439 https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2025/08/08/the-gates-foundation-commits-2-5b-to-womens-health-00499439 In Dr. Basmah Safdar's first interview as director of Women's Health Research at Yale, she celebrates the monumental investment from the Gates Foundation and highlights the need for even more. Read this week's POLITICO Women Rule newsletter. Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/celebrating-carolyn-mazure/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/celebrating-carolyn-mazure/ As I embark as the new director of Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) this July, I’d like to celebrate and thank Founding Director Carolyn M. Mazure, PhD, who leaves a tremendous legacy. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/05/can-ai-make-emergency-department-safer-patients-and-providers https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/05/can-ai-make-emergency-department-safer-patients-and-providers A new Yale study investigates how artificial intelligence might help identify patients at risk of developing agitation in the emergency department.  Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:00:00 Z https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas/live-at-the-yale-innovation-summit-2025 https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas/live-at-the-yale-innovation-summit-2025 In a special episode recorded at Connecticut’s largest entrepreneurship event, Howie and guest host Megan Ranney, the dean of the Yale School of Public Health, welcome four Yale innovators: entrepreneur and YSPH lecturer Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala; Basmah Safdar, incoming director of Women’s Health Research at Yale; Kayla Wooley, a YSPH graduate and the founder of two nursing home staffing companies; and Yale College student Laurie Jimenez, founder of FulcrumCare, a value-based dental provider for Medicaid and Medicare patients.  Fri, 30 May 2025 11:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/basmah-safdar-md-facep-appointed-director-womens-health-research-at-yale-whry/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/basmah-safdar-md-facep-appointed-director-womens-health-research-at-yale-whry/ Read the announcement from Dean Nancy J. Brown, MD, on the appointment of Basmah Safdar, MD, FACEP, as director, Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY). Thu, 01 May 2025 21:00:00 Z https://cpdd.org/honoring-achievement-announcing-the-2025-cpdd-awards-for-excellence-recipients/ https://cpdd.org/honoring-achievement-announcing-the-2025-cpdd-awards-for-excellence-recipients/ The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) proudly celebrates the outstanding individuals honored with the 2025 Awards for Excellence—including Gail D'Onofrio, MD, recipient of the James L. Sorensen Distinguished Treatment and Research Mentor Award. Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/nasir-wts-internal-committee/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/nasir-wts-internal-committee/ Afsheen Nasir, MBBS, was selected to serve as a member on the International Affairs Committee of Women in Thoracic Surgery (WTS). Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-national-leader/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-national-leader/ For the fourth consecutive year, the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale School of Medicine has ranked #1 in the nation for National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:00:00 Z https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/magazine/buprenorphine-opioid-addiction-treatment.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/magazine/buprenorphine-opioid-addiction-treatment.html A drug called buprenorphine may be the best tool doctors have to fight the fentanyl crisis. Why hasn’t it been more widely adopted? Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/nih-awards-dollar15m-grant-to-improve-factuality-correctness-in-large-language-models-in-healthcare/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/nih-awards-dollar15m-grant-to-improve-factuality-correctness-in-large-language-models-in-healthcare/ Funded by the National Library of Medicine, the project aims to improve the reliability of AI-generated responses in medical applications, ensuring more accurate and trustworthy information to support better health care decisions. Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/advancing-clinical-decision-support-with-reliable-transparent-large-language-models/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/advancing-clinical-decision-support-with-reliable-transparent-large-language-models/ Qianqian Xie, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS), has received an NIH grant to develop a Large Language Model (LLM)-based framework for clinical decision support. The project aims to create a reliable, evidence-based question-answering system to assist clinicians in high-pressure environments, such as emergency departments, by providing real-time, trustworthy information. Dr. Xie's work is supported by mentors and collaborators from Yale and other leading institutions. Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:00:00 Z https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/111480 https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/addictions/111480 For pregnant persons with opioid use disorder (OUD), buprenorphine and naloxone used together were associated with similar or better neonatal and maternal outcomes versus buprenorphine alone, a large nationwide population-based cohort study found. YSPH Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) Dr. Gail D'Onofrio comments. Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-european-society-of-cardiology-conference-2024/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-european-society-of-cardiology-conference-2024/ On August 30 – September 2, Yale researchers will be presenting research and moderating sessions at the European Society of Cardiology’s (ESC) Congress 2024 in London. The focus of this year’s conference is personalizing cardiovascular care for patients. Tue, 06 Aug 2024 04:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-women-faculty-recognized-nationally/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/safdar/news-article/yale-emergency-medicine-women-faculty-recognized-nationally/ The accomplishments of the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) faculty were acknowledged in spades this spring, here on campus and across the country. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 04:00:00 Z