As director of the Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital, Maryam Lustberg studies how to improve the quality of life of breast cancer patients. At home, she likes hanging out with her eight-year-old son. And at all times, she’s a big fan of coffee and...
During the early days of the pandemic, Sophia De Oliveira ’24 and her brother Nickolas came up with an idea. They devised an educational kit that could help children understand COVID-19 and how to stay safe. The kits — which included a story booklet, a...
Nathan Levitt recently joined the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) faculty as a lecturer and director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning. When he isn’t studying, teaching about, and providing health care for trans and non-binary populations, he’s out hiking...
In February, Josh Geballe ’97, ’02 M.B.A., a technology professional who had been serving on Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s leadership team, returned to Yale as the university’s first senior associate provost for entrepreneurship and innovation.
In the...
Christine Rodriguez is dedicated to health care. She teaches clinical skills at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and provides transgender care to patients. An accomplished rapper, she even turned down a career in music to pursue one in nursing. She loves...
As a medical resident, Vikas Gupta came across many patients with what are known as fibrosing diseases, ailments in which tissues become scarred, causing other complications, and for which there are limited treatment options. He eventually decided to...
Yale was not on Jaelen King’s radar as a high school student. He only considered applying after earning an excellent score on the SAT exams — and some firm nudging from his mom.
And his first few months on campus, he admits, were a challenge. But he...
Cooking has always brought Nellie Conover-Crockett joy. She has made her own birthday cake since the age of five and in high school she frequently tackled family dinner. Once at Yale, she often reserved the student kitchen to cook with and for friends,...
Lamia Haque may be a new faculty member, but she’s no stranger to Yale. She came to the university as an internal medicine resident in 2013 and stayed to complete fellowships in addiction medicine, digestive diseases, and advanced transplant hepatology....
When she was a student at Yale School of Medicine more than a decade ago, Dr. Mei Elansary ’12 conducted a project on the Indonesian island of Borneo. Over several weeks, she interviewed clinic patients about a program that offered more accessible health...