About Us

The Section of Cardiovascular Medicine first became an entity under the leadership of the late Alan Goodyer. Lawrence Cohen was recruited to Yale as Chief in 1969. In 1978 Barry Zaret became Chief of the Section. Over the past 25 years there has been enormous sectional growth. The current faculty is 43. There are currently 34 fellows in training. This includes those both in the core two year clinical training program as well as subspecialty and specific research trainees. This program is supported by a staff of 71 people. The annual operating budget for the section is approximately 26.5 million dollars.

The Section is extraordinarily diverse with respect to both its research and clinical programs. The faculty include a spectrum involving MDs, MD-PhDs and PhDs whose phenotypes range from quintessential clinician-educators, to primary investigators devoting 80-90% of their time to research, and to clinician scholars. The research effort ranges from programs of excellence in vascular molecular and cell biology to outcomes research involving large populations of patients. The individual research and clinical programs will be discussed in more detail below. A basic priority over the past several decades has been to foster the sense that clinical and investigative excellence must coexist effectively in the same environment in order to develop an optimal academic effort. As such, substantial effort has been placed upon developing excellence in both spheres.