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Thesis Chair Committee

The Office of Student Research’s mission is executed at the departmental level by “departmental thesis chairs,” who comprise Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) formal Departmental Thesis Chair Committee. These individuals serve a critical role in the cultivation and management of YSM’s student research enterprise and fulfill myriad roles related to medical student research at YSM.

If you would like to share input or are interested in the work of this committee, please contact co-chairs Erica Herzog or Sarwat Chaudhry. Please note, department chairs nominate members of this committee.

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Erica Herzog, MD, PhD

Co-Chair, Thesis Chair Committee

John Slade Ely Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary) and Professor of Pathology; Director, Yale Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Center of Excellence, Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Associate Dean, Medical Student Research

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Sarwat Chaudhry, MD

Co-Chair, Thesis Chair Committee

Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Dean for Student Research, Office of Education; Co-Director, National Clinician Scholars Program

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Fuad Abujarad, PhD, MSc

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Associate Professor on Term, Biostatistics

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Sanjay Aneja, MD

Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Director of Clinical Informatics, Therapeutic Radiology; Director Medical School Clerkship, Therapeutic Radiology; Director of Theranostics at Griffin Hospital, Therapeutic Radiology; Medical School Thesis Oversight, Therapeutic Radiology; Radiation Safety, Therapeutic Radiology; Assistant Cancer Center Director, Bioinformatics

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Angela Arlen, MD

Associate Professor of Urology; Vice Chair of Education, Department of Urology

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Sean Christensen, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Dermatology; Director of Mohs Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology Fellowship, Dermatologic Surgery; Director of Resident Education in Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology; Director of Dermatologic Surgery at Yale Dermatology-Branford, Dermatology

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Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Director, Operations Core, Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Student Thesis Chair, Internal Medicine

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Jonathan N Grauer, MD

Professor of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs; Director of Orthopaedic Spine Service, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Associate Vice-Chair Research, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation

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Seth Guller, PhD

Senior Research Scientist in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Gyn/Endocrine Laboratory

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Paul Heerdt, PhD, MD

Professor of Anesthesiology; Director of Applied Hemodynamics, Anesthesiology

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Kevan Herold, MD

C.N.H. Long Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Endocrinology)

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Michael J Higley, MD, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience and of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry; Member, Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair (CNNR); Associate Director, MD-PhD Program

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D. S. Fahmeed Hyder, PhD

Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering; Technical Director, Magnetic Resonance Research Center (mrrc.yale.edu); Program Director, Core Center for Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (qnmr.yale.edu)

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Shuta Ishibe, MD

Section Chief of Nephrology, Professor of Medicine (Nephrology); Director, Undergraduate Summer Research Program for Nephrology; Section Chief , Nephrology; Student Thesis Chair, Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine

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Samuel Katz, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology

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Daryl Ewald Klein, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology

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Ninani Kombo, MD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Bill Konigsberg, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

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Angeliki Louvi, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience; Deputy Director, MD-PhD Program

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David C. Madoff, MD

Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging and Medical and Surgical Oncology; Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging; Section Chief, Interventional Radiology; Clinical Affairs Section Chief, Interventional Radiology

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