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YSM Clinical and Basic Science Department Chairs

  • William H. Carmalt Professor of Surgery; Chair, Surgery; Associate Cancer Center Director, Surgical Services

    Research Interests
    • Gastrointestinal Diseases
    • Pancreatic Neoplasms
    • Colorectal Neoplasms
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Pediatrics; Chair, Pediatrics; Chief of Pediatrics, Yale New Haven Health System

    Research Interests
    • Critical Care
    • Gastroenterology
    • Morphogenesis
    • Pediatrics
    • Organogenesis
  • Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chair, Dept Basic Science: Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Biochemistry
    • Biology
    • Biotechnology
    • Fungi
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Microbiology
    • Molecular Biology
    • Computational Biology
    • Genomics
    • Metabolomics
  • C. N. H. Long Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Cellular and Molecular Physiology

    Research Interests
    • Cell Biology
    • Epithelial Cells
    • Kidney
    • Polycystic Kidney Diseases
    • Physiology
    • Ion Pumps
  • Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program

    Research Interests
    • Africa, Western
    • Developing Countries
    • Ghana
    • Hookworm Infections
    • Malaria
    • Microbiology
    • Pediatrics
    • Public Health
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Global Health
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Aaron B. and Marguerite Lerner Professor and Chair of Dermatology. Professor of Genetics and Pathology. Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Development

    Research Interests
    • Cell Biology
    • Genetics
    • Genetics, Medical
    • Ichthyosis
    • Mosaicism
    • Skin Diseases
    • Human Genome Project
    • Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases
    • Human Genetics
  • Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity; Chair, Department of Internal Medicine; and Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Catecholamines
    • Diabetes Mellitus
    • Hypertension
    • Internal Medicine
    • Obesity
    • Acute Kidney Injury
  • Robert E. Hunter Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Professor of Genetics; Chair, Therapeutic Radiology

    Research Interests
    • DNA Repair
    • Genetics
    • Radiation
    • Gene Targeting
    • Radiation Oncology
    • Recombinational DNA Repair
    • Gene Editing
  • C.N.H. Long Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis and Director of Microbial Sciences Institute; Chair, Microbial Pathogenesis

    Research Interests
    • Bacteria
    • Germ-Free Life
    • Symbiosis
    • Genomics
    • Microbial Consortia
    • Microbiota
  • Sterling Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience; Chair, Neurosurgery; Physician-in-Chief, Neurosurgery, Yale New Haven Health System; Member, National Academy of Medicine; Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics

    Research Interests
    • Aneurysm
    • Brain
    • Genetics
    • Molecular Biology
    • Neurobiology
    • Neurosurgery
    • Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System
  • William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology; Chair, Neurology; Neurologist-in-Chief, Yale New Haven Hospital

    Research Interests
    • Brain Neoplasms
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Neurology
    • Neurosciences
    • Autoimmunity
  • Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Comparative Medicine and Professor of Neuroscience and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Chair, Comparative Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Neuroendocrinology
    • Obesity
    • Physiology
  • Professor of Urology; Chair, Urology; Chief, Urology; Co-Leader, Cancer Signaling Networks, Yale Cancer Center

    Research Interests
    • Immunotherapy
    • Prostatectomy
    • Prostatic Neoplasms
    • Clinical Trial
    • TGF-beta Superfamily Proteins
    • Androgen Receptor Antagonists
  • Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Physician-in-Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD

    Research Interests
    • Alcoholism
    • Drug Therapy
    • Genetics
    • Neurobiology
    • Psychiatry
    • Schizophrenia
    • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
    • Veterans
    • Neuroimaging
  • Nicholas Greene Professor of Anesthesiology; Chair, Anesthesiology; Physician-in-Chief of Anesthesiology , Yale New Haven Hospital and Bridgeport Hospital

  • Alfred Gilman Professor and Chair of Pharmacology; Co-director, Cancer Biology Institute; Chair, Pharmacology

    Research Interests
    • Adenocarcinoma
    • Biochemistry
    • Cell Membrane
    • Crystallography
    • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
    • Receptor Aggregation
    • Signal Transduction
    • Protein Structure, Tertiary
    • MAP Kinase Signaling System
    • Protein Kinase Inhibitors
    • ErbB Receptors
    • Single Molecule Imaging
    • Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange-Mass Spectrometry
  • Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center; Chair, Child Study Center

    Research Interests
    • Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Child Psychiatry
    • Chronic Disease
    • Electrophysiology
    • Epidemiology
    • Pediatrics
    • Stress, Psychological
    • Behavior, Addictive
    • Psychiatry and Psychology
  • Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

    Research Interests
    • Informatics
    • Machine Learning
    • Data Science
  • Professor of Genetics; Chair, Genetics

    Research Interests
    • Genetics
    • Germ Cells
    • Stem Cells
    • Developmental Biology
    • Caenorhabditis elegans
    • Genomics
    • Epigenomics
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Chair, Immunobiology

    Research Interests
    • Antibody Diversity
    • Antibody Formation
    • Biological Evolution
    • Genes, Immunoglobulin
    • Leukemia, Lymphoid
    • Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
    • Molecular Biology
    • Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte
    • Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
    • Developmental Biology
    • Somatic Hypermutation, Immunoglobulin
  • Professor of Laboratory Medicine, of Biomedical Engineering, of Medicine (Hematology) and of Pediatrics; Deputy Dean for Research, (Clinical and Translational); Director, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Laboratory Medicine; Chair, Laboratory Medicine; Chief, Laboratory Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Blood
    • Blood Cells
    • Bone Marrow Cells
    • Curriculum
    • Education, Professional
    • Ethics
    • Hematology
    • Hematopoietic System
    • Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases
    • Immune System
    • Laboratories
    • Lymphoid Tissue
    • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
    • Religion and Medicine
    • Religion and Science
    • Stem Cells
    • Students
    • Students, Medical
    • Teaching
    • Medical Laboratory Science
    • Point-of-Care Systems
    • Disease Management
    • Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
  • Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience; Chair, Neuroscience; Director, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience; Director, Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair; Director, Memory Disorders Clinic; Director, Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

    Research Interests
    • Alzheimer Disease
    • Axons
    • Dementia
    • Spinal Cord Injuries
    • Regenerative Medicine
    • Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Anita O'Keeffe Young Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; Chair, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Chief , Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale New Haven Hospital

    Research Interests
    • Endometriosis
  • Professor of Emergency Medicine; Chair, Emergency Medicine; Scientist, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Internal Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Costs and Cost Analysis
    • Emergency Medicine
    • Health Services Research
    • Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
    • Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine
  • Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History; Chair (on leave Spring 2024), History of Medicine

    Research Interests
    • History
    • History of Medicine
    • Public Health
  • Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology); Deputy Dean for Cancer Research, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale Cancer Center; President and Physician-in-Chief, Smilow Cancer Hospital

    Research Interests
    • Breast