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Cynthia Frary McNamara, MD, FACP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and an internist at the Veterans Administration Hospital Connecticut. She holds multiple leadership roles in medical education, including Associate Program Director of the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency Program (TIMRP), Director of the Clinical Competency Committee, and Co-Director of Ambulatory Education. Dr. McNamara’s academic focus includes medical education, global health, rural health, and health equity. Her work emphasizes addressing social and identity-based determinants of health disparity through curricular innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Education: MD from Cornell University Medical College (1991), BS in Biochemistry from Boston College (1987). Advanced training includes a Medical Education Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine (2022) and participation in the Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholar’s Program (2022, 2017, 2011). Board-certified in Internal Medicine since 1994.
Research interests include curriculum development for politically charged topics, women’s and gender health education, and addiction medicine. She has published on topics ranging from medication abortion to rural medicine curriculum needs. Dr. McNamara mentors ~50 trainees through the MentorAdvisorCoach (MAC) Program and teaches in the Women's and Gender Health Education Program.
Notable awards include the 2024 Humanism Award from Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program and multiple nominations for the VACT Educator Excellence Award. She leads initiatives such as an outpatient Addiction Medicine elective and a needs assessment for rural medicine curricula in U.S. medical schools.
