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The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce the inaugural Transformational Educators Honor Roll, recognizing 31 faculty members for outstanding contributions to the department’s educational mission. Honorees were identified through resident evaluations and achieved exceptional scores in teaching and trainee engagement categories. The initiative reflects the department’s broader efforts to strengthen teaching evaluation processes and advance transparent recognition of educational contributions across Yale School of Medicine. We congratulate these faculty on this well-deserved recognition.

The Yale Institute for Global Health has awarded Melanie Sion, MD, a $10,000 Global Health Spark Award to support the development of an international professional development program for women surgeons practicing across Africa. Endorsed by the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS), Women in Surgery-Africa (WiSA), and the Pan African Association of Women Surgeons (PAWAS), the initiative will provide leadership training, mentorship, communication skills, and wellness support. The program addresses persistent gender-based barriers, including discrimination, burnout, sexual harassment, and limited access to leadership opportunities, while strengthening mentorship networks across the continent.

The annual teaching awards were announced during the Yale School of Medicine MD Class of 2026 Commencement. Seven distinguished awards were presented.

Two Yale cardiovascular researchers, Sara Tabtabai, MD, and fellow Sarah Abou Alaiwi, MD, received Women As One 2026 Mentorship Awards to advance research on improving detection and sex-specific understanding of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), especially in women.

List of 119 Yale Cancer Center physicians named as 2026 'Top Doctors'

Nearly 400 Yale Medicine physicians were cited as “Top Doctors,” according to Connecticut Magazine’s 2026 list.

Seventeen Yale Urology faculty members have been recognized in the Connecticut Magazine's 2026 “Top Doctors” edition.

Eighteen Yale Ob/Gyn faculty members have been recognized in Connecticut Magazine's 2026 “Top Doctors” edition.

Please join Dean Nancy J. Brown, MD, at the State of the School on Tuesday, June 9, from 5 to 6 p.m., and Wednesday, June 10, from 12 to 1 p.m., via Zoom for an update on the current state of our school, reflections on our progress over the last year, and a summary of our goals for the coming years.