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Current Faculty
Program Leadership
Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, |
the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, is Director of the Yale Program in which he also teaches and mentors Scholars. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and in cardiology at Beth Israel in Boston. He also serves as Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).
Dr. Krumholz’s research is focused on determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the prevention, treatment and outcome of cardiovascular disease with emphasis on under-represented populations. Using methods of clinical epidemiology and health services research, he has sought to illuminate the balance of risks, benefits and costs of specific clinical approaches. The research efforts are intended to provide critical information to improve the quality of healthcare, monitor changes over time, and guide decisions about the allocation of scarce resources. He is currently leading initiatives through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop national mortality measures for public reporting of hospital performance. In an effort to investigate ways that hospitals can improve outcomes through decreasing door-to-balloon times, he initiated and chairs the steering committee of D2B: An Alliance for Quality, an international campaign launched by the American College of Cardiology to implement key evidence-based strategies to achieve guideline recommended door-to-balloon times. Dr. Krumholz also serves as Principal Investigator on two multi-center projects sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: VIRGO, an investigation of issues surrounding the care and outcomes of young women with acute myocardial infarction; and a study examining the effect of a telemonitoring strategy on the outcomes of patients with heart failure.
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Rani Desai, PhD, MPH |
is an Associate Director of the Program and is the liaison to the Veterans Administration (VA). She also coordinates the Biostatistics course and is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine. She received both her MPH in chronic disease epidemiology, and her PhD in mental health services research and psychiatric epidemiology from Yale University. Dr. Desai serves as Associate Director of the Northeast Program Evaluation Center, the evaluation arm of mental health services for the VA, and is the head of the Women and Trauma Core of Women's Health at Yale.
Dr. Desai's research utilizes principles of psychiatric epidemiology and services research to examine risk factors and correlates of several psychiatric disorders, with particular attention paid to co-occurring disorders. This research has included studies on pathological gambling, schizophrenia, substance abuse/dependence, the risk of suicide in psychiatric patients, trauma and comorbidity, criminal justice mental health, and the mental health problems experienced by the homeless. At the national level, Dr. Desai serves as the program evaluator for VA programs on homeless female veterans, and has served on several advisory committees to the VA on the mental health needs of female veterans, with particular attention to military sexual trauma. She is also the program evaluator for programs serving returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and all of the PTSD programs within the VA.
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Cary Gross, MD |
is an Associate Director of the Program and oversees the Scholars' research. As a former Johns Hopkins University RWJ Clinical Scholar, Dr. Gross focused on research policy issues including the prioritization of clinical research funding and the dissemination of research findings. In 1999, Dr. Gross joined the Yale University School of Medicine’s Section of General Internal Medicine and has been closely involved with Yale’s Clinical Scholars Program since that time. Dr. Gross' recent work has focused on cancer in older persons, with an emphasis on barriers to clinical trial participation as well as the impact of comorbid conditions on patient care and outcomes. Dr. Gross also has an interest in empiric studies of methodologic and ethical considerations in clinical research, with a focus on informed consent and financial conflicts of interest.
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Georgina Lucas, MSW |
is Deputy Director of the Program and Director for the Program's Community Research Initiatives. She brings a strong track record of leadership in the academic, nonprofit, public, and private sectors. She was the founding director of the Center for Innovative Practice at Smith College Graduate School for Social Work where she worked with faculty, doctoral students, and local, state, and national organizations in implementing applied research and training programs to improve mental health services to underserved populations.
Ms. Lucas served as the Staff Director of the Connecticut Governor’s Commission on Public and Private Responsibilities for Financing Long Term Care. This commission was responsible for establishing the Connecticut Partnership for Long Term Care, a collaboration between the Connecticut Department of Medicaid and the insurance industry. The Connecticut Partnership model was subsequently replicated in other states. She has also held executive positions in the private sector managing a national community-based care management program for frail elderly, managing Travelers long-term care insurance division, the Travelers national and community affairs division and their corporate philanthropic foundation.
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Marcella Nunez Smith, MD, MHS |
is an Assistant Director of the Program, teaching elements of the qualitative curriculum and working on scholar recruitment. She is a former RWJ Clinical Scholar from Yale and is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Nunez Smith conducts research on healthcare workforce diversity, cancer disparities, and the role of media on health. Dr. Nunez Smith joined the faculty in 2006.
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Marjorie Rosenthal, MD, MPH |
is an Assistant Director of the Program and Assistant Director for the Program’s Community Research Initiative. She is a former RWJ Clinical Scholar from both Yale and the University of North Carolina. She is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Rosenthal conducts research on decreasing inequities in health education and health behavior for young, vulnerable families. Specifically, she studies barriers, such as parental literacy and maternal mental health, as well as facilitating factors, such as quality improvement in physicians' offices, group well-child care, and child care providers as health educators. She also conducts research on teaching community-based participatory research. Dr. Rosenthal joined the faculty in 2005.
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Faculty
David Berg, PhD |
teaches the Leadership Development course. He received his BA and MA from Yale University and his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. From 1977-1992 Dr. Berg was a professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management (SOM) where he taught courses in organizational behavior, group dynamics, research methods and organizational diagnosis. He was the 1990 recipient of the SOM Alumni Award for excellence in teaching. He is now a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine helping physicians develop their understanding of groups and organizations.
In his work, Dr. Berg strives to maintain connections between the world of ideas and the world of practice. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. Dr. Berg is the author of numerous articles and books including Paradoxes of Group Life (with Kenwyn Smith), Failures in Organization Development and Change (edited with Philip Mirvis), The Self in Social Inquiry (edited with Kenwyn Smith), and Rediscovering Groups (with Marshall Edelson).
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Irwin Birnbaum, JD |
was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Yale University’s School of Medicine from July 1, 1997 until June 30, 2003. As COO, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the Medical School. He then served as a Senior Advisor to the Dean until his retirement on June 30, 2005. Since then, Mr. Birnbaum is a Senior Advisor and Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Medicine in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Clinical Scholars Program at the Yale School of Medicine.
Prior to coming to Yale, Mr. Birnbaum practiced Health Care Law as a partner in the law firm of Proskauer Rose LLP for 11 years (1986-1997), and for 23 years (1963-1986) he was at Montefiore Medical Center where he was the Chief Financial Officer. He is a board member of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York since 1989; and has been on the Board of South County Healthcare System in Rhode Island, and the Hospital Association of Rhode Island since 2007. He is also the Chairman of the Board of FOJP Services Corporation a Medical Malpractice Insurance carrier. His professional organizations include New York Academy of Medicine (Fellow), Hospital Financial Management Association, American Health Lawyers Association, and the New York City Bar Association. He is the editor of a five volume Treatise on Health Care Law, published by Lexis/Nexis (Matthew Bender). Mr. Birnbaum is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law.
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Elizabeth Bradley, PhD |
coordinates our Principles of Health Policy and Management course. Dr. Bradley is a Professor of Public Health and the Director of the Global Health Initiative and the Health Management Program in the Yale School of Public Health Dr. Bradley is a recognized expert in health services research with emphasis in management, quality improvement, and health policy. Dr. Bradley is currently working domestically and internationally on health system strengthening efforts and quality improvement. She has collaborated with the World Health Organization on improving policies and practices in hospital infection control in China, and she is currently working with the Clinton Foundation to build a hospital and rural health infrastructure in Ethiopia and improve health management capacity in Liberia. Under her leadership, the Yale Health Management Program is also conducting ongoing education of healthcare managers in South Africa and in the United Kingdom. Dr. Bradley was previously a hospital administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital for several years.
Yale School of Public Health
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Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH |
is a Research Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. As a core faculty member at the Yale CSP, she is responsible for the qualitative research curriculum and mentoring physician-scholars in qualitative and mixed methods studies.
Her research examines health services and health policy related to older adults, with a particular focus on the organization, financing, and quality of innovative models of long-term care. She is a nationally recognized expert in qualitative and mixed methods as applied to health care and health services research. Dr. Curry's work to enhance the rigor and credibility of these methods has been supported by the National Institute on Aging, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John A. Hartford Foundation. Dr. Curry is a member of the Gerontological Society of America and
AcademyHealth.
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Mayur Desai, PhD, MPH |
coordinates the Clinical and Health Services
Research Methods course. Dr. Desai was an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, and received both his MPH in health policy and his PhD in epidemiology from Yale University. He then served for 2 years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer with the CDC, before returning to New Haven to join the Yale faculty. Dr. Desai is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Advanced Professional MPH Program at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Desai's primary research interest lies at the interface between mental health and medical comorbidity. Much of his work focuses on examining the impact of psychiatric and substance use disorders on the utilization, quality, and outcomes of primary and specialty medical care. His other areas of interest include aging, psychiatric epidemiology, mental health services research, and homelessness.
Yale School of Public Health
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Howard Forman, MD, MBA |
a former University of Pennsylvania RWJ Clinical Scholar, co-coordinates the public policy year for the Seminars in Health Policy and Delivery series. Dr. Forman is a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Management, and Public Health. He is also a lecturer in the economics department at Yale College and the faculty founder and Director of the MD/MBA program as well as the Executive MBA Program at the Yale School of Management. As the operational director of the Emergency Radiology Program at YNHH, he is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and clinical practice management. He has worked in the US Senate, as a legislative fellow, working on Medicare legislation.
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Robert Galvin, MD |
is Director of Global Healthcare for General Electric (GE). In addition to responsibility for GE’s $3B annual health spend, he oversees GE’s clinical group, encompassing over 215 clinics in 30 countries and leads health policy for the corporation. In his current role Dr. Galvin has focused on issues of market-based health policy and financing, with special interest in performance measurement, payment reform, and the assessment and coverage of new technologies. He is a co-founder of The Leapfrog Group and the founder of Bridges to Excellence. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and is a member of the Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System. He has also served on several Institute of Medicine Committees.
Dr. Galvin’s work has received awards from the National Health Care Purchasing Institute, The National Business Group on Health and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and his work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. He is a Professor Adjunct of Medicine at Yale where he leads the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar seminar series on the private sector.
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Amy Justice, MD, PhD |
a former University of Pennsylvania RWJ Clinical Scholar, teaches and mentors in the Yale Program. She is the Section Chief of General Medicine at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale University. Dr. Justice is a general internist and has conducted research in outcomes in chronic HIV infection for the past 18 years. Her goal is to use HIV infection as a model for improving outcomes in chronic disease. She is the principal investigator on the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS). This longitudinal observational cohort study considers the complex roles of aging, symptoms, medical treatment, adherence, patient-provider relationships, disease severity, treatment toxicity, and medical and psychiatric comorbid illness in determining survival and quality of life for people with HIV infection.
She has experience with analyzing large and complex databases, comparing results across databases, and conducting observational studies. She has studied predictors of survival and quality of life and is expert in the development, validation, and evaluation of multivariable prognostic models.
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Patrick O'Connor, MD, MPH |
a former Yale RWJ Clinical Scholar, teaches and mentors in the Program. He is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Medical School and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Prior to coming to Yale as a Clinical Scholar, Dr. O'Connor completed his training at the University of Rochester. He received his MPH from Yale University.
Dr. O'Connor has focused his scholarly work on the interface between primary care and substance abuse. This has included research examining the transfer of substance abuse treatment strategies from specialty settings to primary care settings. His publications in this area include studies on the management of opioid withdrawal in primary care settings, opioid maintenance in primary care, and the use of naltrexone for treating alcohol dependence in primary care patients. In addition, he and his colleagues have spearheaded efforts nationally to examine and develop office-based treatment of opioid dependence with buprenorphine. Dr. O'Connor has also been active in medical education on substance abuse both nationally and internationally. As chief of general internal medicine, he also mentors both faculty and fellows in their work on a wide variety of research topics and on career development in academic medicine.
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Affiliated Faculty
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Editor, New Haven Independent
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Associate Research Scientist, Postdoc Fellow, Yale School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Education, Yale University School of Medicine
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Deputy Director of Performance Management, Yale-New Haven Health System
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Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Professional Staff Member, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, US House of Representatives
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Executive Director, Fair Haven Community Health Center
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Dean of Public Health, Chair of Epidemiology and Public Health, C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, VA Connecticut HealthCare System at West Haven
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
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Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, General Medicine Pulmonary, Yale University School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
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Professor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Yale School of Medicine
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Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology; Assistant Dean, Multicultural Affairs, Yale University School of Medicine
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Professor of Pediatrics and Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
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Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health
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GIS Assistant, Map Collection, Yale University Library
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Professor, School of Management and Political Science, Yale University
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Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing, Yale University School of Nursing
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President and CEO, Children's Fund of Connecticut, Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc.
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
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Associate Professor; Head, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale University School of Medicine
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Director of Health, City of New Haven
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Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
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Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center
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Associate Professor of Nursing, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
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Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
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