Health & Medicine Experts

Experts are listed alphabetically.


Jeffrey Gruen M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology) and of Genetics


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Dyslexia, neonatal medicine, newborn intensive care, inherited diseases, hemochromatosis, children's health, fetal newborn care, genetics, women's health

Murat Gunel M.D.
  • Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery
  • Professor of Genetics and of Neuroscience
  • Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
  • Chief, Neurosurgery, Yale New Haven Health System
  • Chair, Perioperative Executive Leadership Committee
  • Co-Director, Yale Program on Neurogenetics

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Neurosurgery, brain aneurysms, arterio-venous malformations (AVM), cavernous malformations, occlusive vascular disorders, carotid surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, neurovascular intensive care unit (ICU), stroke

David Hafler M.D.
  • William S. and Lois Stiles Edgerly Professor of Neurology and Professor of Immunobiology
  • Chair, Department of Neurology
  • Neurologist-in-Chief, Yale New Haven Hospital

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Autoimmune diseases and multiple sclerosis (MS)

Nicola Hawley Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Obesity, Pacific Islands, Samoa, diabetes, maternal child health

Robert Heimer Ph.D.
  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pharmacology
  • Director, Emerging Infections Program

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Opioid abuse and its treatment, HIV prevention and access to care, Hepatitis C virus, emerging infections

Janet Henrich M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Women's health, Ob-Gyn

Roy Herbst M.D., Ph.D.
  • Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
  • Professor of Pharmacology
  • Chief of Medical Oncology, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital
  • Associate Director for Translational Research, Yale Cancer Center
  • Disease Aligned Research Team (DART) Leader, Thoracic Oncology Program, Yale Cancer Center

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Lung cancer, personalized medicine, genetics

Jackson T. Higginbottom M.P.H.
  • Program Administrator, Evaluation & Communications
     

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

COVID-19, Community-engagement, Health communications, Public health, LGBTQ Mental Health

Lawrence J. Hirsch M.D.
  • Professor of Neurology 
  • Chief, Division of Epilepsy and EEG 
  • Co-Director, Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
  • Co-Director, Critical Care EEG Monitoring Program

Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Epilepsy, seizures, electroencephalography (EEG), status epilepticus, brain monitoring

Adam Hittelman M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Urology


Field & Expertise

Health & Medicine

Pediatric urology, pediatric urologic surgery, obstruction of the ureteral pelvic junction (UPJ), vesicoureteral reflux, reconstructive surgery for congenital problems such as hypospadias, ambiguous genitalia, disorders of sexual development and congenital adrenal hyperplasia, children's health