About
Matthew Zegarek, MD is an Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He serves as Associate Firm Chief for Firm A in the Center of Education (COE) for Interprofessional Primary Care and co-directs the Clinician Educator Distinction program for Yale Internal Medicine Residency. His work focuses on medical education innovations, particularly shared decision-making training and improving transition-of-care processes.
Education: MD from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (2013), BA in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers University (2009). Completed internal medicine residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Research interests include feedback mechanisms in medical training, evidenced by collaborative work on real-time post-discharge outcome feedback systems and qualitative studies on resident feedback barriers. His earlier molecular biology research explored DNA methylation's role in lymphoma pathogenesis.
Publications span medical education pedagogy, healthcare quality improvement, and oncology. Active in residency program development, mentoring future clinician-educators through the ACES Faculty Development Program.