Yale School of Medicine has continued to emphasize diversity across its research capabilities, curriculum, student body, faculty, and staff.
Yale School of Medicine has continued to emphasize diversity across its research capabilities, curriculum, student body, faculty, and staff.
Yale School of Medicine’s first Black graduate was Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, MD ’57, who matriculated in 1853. The son of a New Haven bootmaker, Creed overcame poverty and prejudice to serve as a surgeon with the Union Army during the Civil War.
Among the perks of working in the lab of Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, are the potluck meals at weekly lab parties. The dishes, which range from Japanese sushi to Korean barbecue to empanadas, reflect the diversity of her lab team.
Change is a constant, and it takes a wide variety of responses to best meet it. Within groups of people, diversity is the fertile ground from which fresh new ideas can spring.
When we think of diversity at an academic medical center, our focus tends toward reviewing the composition of our faculty, students, and staff, and ensuring that our academic community is broadly representative of our population at large. In addition to inclusion of “the many” being the right..
For some MDs, a commitment to medicine extends beyond the exam room or the lab bench. “I often advise students that the first career they choose isn’t necessarily what they’re going to be doing forever,” said Lisa Ide, MD ’89, MPH, the chief medical officer of Zipnosis, a virtual health care..
For most of its history, the School of Medicine was a place where young white men learned from older white men. Those days are gone.
Most students hoping to enter medical school view organic chemistry, colloquially called “orgo,” with apprehension and fear; failure to excel in the course means risking one’s chances of admission to a good institution. Failure to pass the course means dooming one’s dreams of becoming a doctor..
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in the 21st century is rightly considered a world-class institution, while the city that surrounds it is equally renowned for the excellence of its hospitals and biotechnology companies. Today, the relationship between YSM and New Haven is strong, but it wasn’t..
The outside world teems with microscopic objects. Many of these busy microbes invade the human body.
Wander the maze of interconnected Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine buildings between Cedar Street and Howard Avenue, and you will eventually come across a pair of facing display cases. They hold one of Yale’s most unusual collections: antique baby bottles.
Among the many reasons the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven is regarded as one of the best in the country is its expertise in treating liver disease. This legacy extends back over decades and is the result of many illustrious physicians and researchers building on the work of their..
Lisa Lattanza, MD, credits strong mentorship and an unusual career path with her resounding success in the field of orthopaedic surgery. She’s excited to bring the lessons she’s learned to the Yale Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation.
Social media has revolutionized the way people communicate and share information. The information bottlenecks of old print and broadcast media have closed or had their influence diminished, for better and for worse, while a world of expertise and information lies at the fingertips of individuals.
Yale School of Medicine is getting a new dean, and for the first time in its 209-year history, she will be a woman. Nancy J.
Only four of Connecticut’s 29 orthopaedic-specific urgent care centers accepted patients for treatment regardless of the patient’s insurance type, according to a study by Yale researchers, including Mary O’Connor, MD, director of YSM’s Center for Musculoskeletal Care, Daniel H. Wiznia, MD,..
A total of 160 studies were published between 1981 and 2001 on the topic of psychiatric disorders in the wake of environmental disaster, at the rate of eight per year. According to a recent Yale School of Public Health study, in 2018, 178 articles were published on the subject, many in Asia.
Carrie L. Lucas, PhD, assistant professor of immunobiology, led a team of researchers at Yale and at the National Institute of Health in sequencing the genome of a 9-year-old girl with a variety of unresolved health complications.
A form of automated intelligence (AI) may be better at distinguishing patients suffering from gastrointestinal difficulties who can safely receive treatment at home from those requiring hospitalization, according to a recent study led by Dennis Shung, MD. Researchers looked at six medical..
As people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes know, insulin is a lifesaving drug. Without it, people with type 1 would begin to die within days.
Yale launches an interprofessional online course to educate students and clinicians about addiction.
For more than a week after March 10, when the university asked students to stay home after the spring break, Michael Schwartz, PhD, was working 14-hour days and on weekends, scrambling to adjust medical education to the novel coronavirus pandemic. As associate dean for curriculum, he has been..
The coronavirus quarantine means different things to different people: A necessary inconvenience. A fusion of work and home life.
After 40 years at its helm, John Forrest, MD, director of the Office of Student Research at Yale, has stepped down. His successors, Erica Herzog, MD, and Sarwat Chaudhry, MD, are eager to continue his legacy of excellence.
Faculty at YSM, Yale School of Public Health, and Yale Institute for Global Health have been contributing to the public's knowledge about what coronavirus or COVID-19 is, and how to approach the growing crisis.
About a third of patients confirmed to have COVID-19 report a temporary loss of smell. Yale specialists describe why that might happen, and what can be done.
On a Match Day interrupted by quarantine, enterprising fourth year students found a way to close the social distance keeping them apart from faculty, friends, and family.
Every two minutes, a woman dies from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications. Mary-Ann Etiebet, MD/MBA ’03, wants to change that.
The UCLA School of Law faculty biography page for Julie D. Cantor, JD, MD ’05, describes her as “a national expert on issues that fall at the intersection of medicine and law.
Linda Genen, CMO for Women's Health with Optum, picked up critical skills at Yale School of Medicine during her fellowship in neonatology.
Each term, Ilkay Alp Yıldırım, PhD, affects the lives of 800 students at Istanbul University. Turkey’s oldest university, founded in 1453, the school has a thriving medical program.
Psychiatrist and bioethicist Tia Powell, MD ’87, has already written her dementia playlist just in case. The list comprises 16 songs she loves, beginning with “Let’s Groove” by Earth, Wind & Fire, and wrapping up with Otis Redding’s version of “Try a Little Tenderness” and the Billie Holiday..
From a diversity perspective, the future is now when it comes to the student body of the School of Medicine. At Yale’s White Coat Ceremony on August 12, it was impossible not to witness progress in a class that is anything but homogeneous as members of the Class of 2023 pulled on their symbolic..
Robert Alpern is proud of the progress Yale School of Medicine (YSM) has made in diversifying both the types of science and research pursued in New Haven, and the people pursuing that science and research. Diversity is central to the mission of scientific excellence and leadership at YSM, from..
Yale Medicine Magazine strives to cover the abundance of superlative work being done at the cutting edge of various fields. It relies on the willing participation of students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
A “second opinion” from cartoonist Sidney Harris. .