Yale Pediatrics has.
Combined cutting edge science
technology, clinical care,
education and research and blended
it with a sense of collaboration,
collegiality and a feeling
that we're part of a family.
In every decade of this century of time,
we can see clear progress on
Children's Health, right,
whether it started with hand
washing to vaccinations and
now to genomic medicine.
You have really high and eared
research in how to care for children.
Better the first neonatal intensive care
unit developed in the world was here at Yale.
New Haven Children's Hospital
developing the insulin pump for a sweat
test was developed here at Yale for
early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
And we have just recently installed
the first neonatal brain MRI machine
in an academic center in the country.
I don't know what to predict for
the next century, but I think it'll
be very exciting and it's fun to be
a part of that kind of discovery.
To find that we are celebrating our
hundredth year in the midst of this pandemic.
Really teaches how something that we
have to have an extraordinary next 100
years and that's what we are starting
to see and that we are well suited
because you're Pediatrics. Has done this.
I came to Yale to do my training.
I found that Yale had this perfect setup
of really amazing clinicians, phenomenal
research being done, but in a size
that allowed for a feel of family.
I think each one of us in the Department
of Pediatrics does what we do best.
We do what we're passionate about,
and when you seek your passions, then you
really excel and and you
come up with that innovation.
I'm here 52 years,
but what I think is unique about
it is its position within a very
interactive university environment.
So it's Yale University,
Yale Medical School,
Yale New Haven hospital.
Many of us are both taking care
of patients as well as studying
what causes disease in children,
and that relationship really makes
us unique. We work together ARM and
ARM with our nursing colleagues,
our therapists, our pharmacists.
To bring it to the bedside in
our hospital and in our clinics.
The thing that is so incredibly
special about this place is just
the marriage between this history of
sort of academic success and being
at the forefront of all kinds of
pediatric research and clinical care.
Really mixed with this feeling
of community and family and
being connected to New Haven and
being connected to one another.
We have community physicians who,
unlike anywhere else in the country,
round on their patients and care for their
inpatients and faculty and community
are in the primary care centers are.
Traveling out to deliver care
in unique and innovative ways.
I love the fact that we have a true
commitment to being the pediatricians
in the state of Connecticut that we
have a Community commitment not only
to patient care but also for advocacy.
Policy and then in our research.
You can't really provide great
clinical service if you don't
really know your patients.
The care of the patient is not just writing
a prescription or giving a vaccine.
You need to understand the
social determinants of health.
We all have a responsibility
to be as inclusive as we
possibly can to everyone.
All members of our community,
all members of our department,
and all of us who come from
different walks of life.
With different backgrounds,
we actively work to promote the careers
of women and underrepresented medicine
minorities because we need their voice.
I'm really proud of our residency program,
who this past year was majority
minority and we that was really due to
intentional efforts and outreach to bring
in a diverse class and to support it.
The role of the pediatrician is evolving.
Now you can be a pediatrician and you
can be cutting edge and innovative by
working on policy by working on advocacy
by being involved in the community.
I have never known a place where you
can sort of show up to work and be
really your authentic self while still
really having a strong commitment to
furthering the field of Pediatrics
and any number of specialties.
I just love that sort of mix of joyfulness
and curiosity with the academic rigor,
and I think that's something
that's pretty special to LP.
We are excited this opportunity of
really defining child care for the next
100 years and we are more than able
because of our history of resilience.
Because of our history of innovation
and asking relevant questions.