update from section chief
Naftali Kaminski, MD
pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine jon koff, md
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he Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine (Yale-PCCSM)
believes its strength comes from its people. The section’s mission is to provide compassionate and effective patient care; to perform cutting-edge and innovative clinical and translational research; and to provide rigorous but tailored training for future leaders in academic medicine and science. Yale-PCCSM faculty aims to fulfill this mission in the best atmosphere possible with a focus on community, diversity, equity, engagement, and work-life balance, says Naftali Kaminski, MD, chief of the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine. He and other section faculty members discuss the culture of Yale-PCCSM in a video featured in a docuseries created by the American Thoracic Society in 2021. Watch the video at https://m.yale.edu/ypn7.
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annual report 2021
Team Yale-PCCSM has grown from about 38 faculty members in 2013 to 75 in 2021. The section has two professors emeritus, nine professors, 20 associate professors, 28 assistant professors, and 12 instructors. The section, which traditionally has benefitted from strong female leadership, has an equal number of men and women professors. Eleven associate professors are women,
and nine are men; 46% of ladder faculty are female, 54% of senior faculty are female, and 55% of clinical educators are female. Of the ladder faculty, 13% are from groups that have been underrepresented in medicine. A new cabinet of vice chiefs and directors reflects the section’s size and stature: Jonathan Siner, MD, clinical chief; Hilary Cain, MD, VA section chief; Charles Dela Cruz, MD, PhD, and Klar Yaggi, MD, MPH, vice chiefs of research, basic and translational;
