Internal Medicine Residency Training Programs
Jack A. Elias, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine
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On behalf of the faculty and trainees of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, I would like to welcome you to our website. We are eager to help you learn more about our Department’s rich array of programs in research, clinical care, and education. As you read through these materials, I believe you will discover a Department that is both inspired by the richness of its traditions, and determined to meet the extraordinary opportunities that confront the modern Department of Medicine. Please contact us if we can provide additional information about our department.
The Department of Internal Medicine at Yale is among the nation's premier departments, bringing together an elite cadre of clinicians, investigators and educators in one of the world's top medical schools. The Department has 351 full-time faculty members and a voluntary faculty of 600, and its training ranks include 430 residents and fellows. Among the faculty are three members of the Institute of Medicine, 20 members of the Association of American Physicians and 34 members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. The Department is embedded in a remarkable basic science environment at Yale, with a collaborative culture that affords numerous opportunities for interdisciplinary and translational research.
The Department of Internal Medicine has an operating budget of $145 million. In fiscal year 2005, the Department had externally funded research of $83 million and generated more than $45 million in clinical activities. The department's faculty serve as attending physicians at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), the West Haven campus of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System., and Waterbury Hospital. YNHH is a 944-bed tertiary care facility that is the medical school's primary teaching hospital. YNHH has over 6,000 employees, including 1,200 registered nurses and a medical staff of over 3,000. It treats 40,000 inpatients and registers more than 445,000 outpatient visits at its various clinics, including one-day surgery, specialty clinics, the emergency department, the Primary Care Center and others. Yale Medical Center also includes Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and the Yale Cancer Center.
The VA Connecticut Healthcare System serves more than 300,000 veterans in CT and southern New England. The West Haven facility includes a 191-bed inpatient facility and an ambulatory care center and provides a full range of primary, secondary and tertiary care in medicine, geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry and surgery. The system overall has 1,742 employees, a nursing staff of 405 and a medical staff of 458. It treats 4,700 inpatients and registers more than 512,000 outpatient visits in West Haven and its clinics in New London, Stamford, Waterbury, Windham, Winsted and Danbury. The West Haven campus of VA Connecticut has one of the leading research programs in the VA system and includes several national clinical research centers.
Waterbury Hospital is a private, non-profit acute care teaching hospital with centers of excellence in primary care, behavioral health, and orthopedics. Located in Connecticut's New Haven County, the primary service area consists of 12 towns encompassing a population of approximately 260,000 people. Included are the towns of Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Cheshire, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Prospect, Southbury, Thomaston, Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott and Woodbury. The Hospital provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient services. While admitting approximately 14,900 inpatients cases, it also provides care to 55,000 emergency room patients each year. The Hospital performs approximately 9,600 inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures each year. The volume of care provided to inpatients are as follows: Medicare (46%), Medicaid (14%) and private insurance (40%).
Leadership and organization
The Department is organized into the following 15 academic sections, each led by a Section Chief who reports to the Chair. The section chiefs also lead their respective services at YNHH and VA Connecticut Health Care System.
Chair, Jack A. Elias, M.D.
Traditional Residency Program Director, Cyrus Kapadia
Primary Care Residency Program Director, Stephen Huot
Med/Peds Residency Program Director, Stephen Huot
Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Philip W. Askenase
Cardiovascular Medicine, Forrester Lee, interim
Digestive Diseases, Michael Nathanson
Endocrinology and Metabolism, Robert S. Sherwin, interim
General Internal Medicine, Patrick O’Connor
Geriatrics, Leo M. Cooney
Hematology, Madhav Dhodapkar
Infectious Diseases, Erol Fikrig
Medical Oncology, Edward M. Chu
Nephrology, Stefan Somlo
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lynn Tanoue, interim
Rheumatology, Joseph E. Craft
The Department’s leadership structure also consists of ten Associate Chairs:
Associate Chair for Research, Lloyd Cantley
Associate Chair for Clinical Affairs, Henry Cabin
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Asghar Rastegar
Associate Chair for Finance/Administration, Jonathan Tamir
Associate Chair for VA Medical Service, Gary Desir
Associate Program Director for Traditional Residency, John Moriarty
Associate Program Director for Traditional Residency, Laura Whitman
Associate Program Director for Primary Care Residency, Donna Windish
Associate Program Director for Primary Care Residency, Michael Green
Associate Program Director for Med/Peds Residency, Ben Doolittle
View the 2004-2005 Annual Report [PDF]