Health & Medicine Experts

Experts are listed alphabetically.


Richard E. Carson Ph.D.
  • Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering 
  • Director, Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Positron emission tomography, nuclear medicine, medical imaging, drug occupancy, neuroreceptors

Michael Cecchini M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Yale Cancer Center 
  • Co-Director, Colorectal Program in the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Medical oncology, Colorectal cancer, Stomach cancer

Steve Chang Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Neuroscience of social behavior, neuropharmacology of social behavior, social learning and social decision-making

Xi Chen Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
  • Associate Professor, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies
  • Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
  • Affiliated Faculty, Yale Center for Climate Change and Health

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Health economics; climate change; environment and health; population, aging and Social Security; quality of life, human capital

Kai Chen Ph.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
  • Director of Research, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
  • Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Field & Expertise

Environment, Health & Medicine

Environment, Health & Medicine

James E. Childs Sc.D.

Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Zoonotic diseases, hantavirus, rodent-borne diseases, leptospirosis, arenavirus

Geoffrey Chupp M.D.
  • Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary)
  • Director, Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease
  • Director, Pulmonary Function Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Asthma, pulmonary, airway disease, lung

Paul D. Cleary Ph.D.
  • Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
  • Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies
  • Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Health care quality, patient centered care, health care organizations

Eve R. Colson M.D., M.H.P.E.

Professor of Pediatrics


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Education, pediatrics, infants

Joan L. Combellick Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.N., C.N.M., F.A.C.N.M.
  • Assistant Professor in Nursing
  • Co-Director, Midwifery Department

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Midwifery, physiologic birth, midwifery model of care, perinatal mental health