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Dr. Nitu Kashyap is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Internal Medicine and Biostatistics at Yale School of Medicine, and an affiliated faculty member at the Yale Institute for Global Health. She serves as the Chief Medical Information Officer at Yale New Haven Health, leading Population Health Informatics and Clinical Decision Support initiatives. Her work bridges clinical practice and technology, focusing on guideline-driven decision support systems and healthcare quality improvement.
Dr. Kashyap completed her residency at UMDNJ, Morristown Memorial Program (2003) and a Fellowship in Clinical Informatics at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (2011). She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Research Interests: Her research emphasizes optimizing clinical decision support systems, improving medication reconciliation processes, and leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) for population health management. Key areas include antimicrobial stewardship, postpartum hypertension monitoring via patient-contributed data, and automated registries for outpatient antibiotic therapy.
Publications Trends: Her recent work addresses challenges in medication reconciliation, real-time prescription benefits, and EHR-integrated tools for chronic disease management. She has contributed to studies on disparities in Lynch syndrome identification and outcomes of COVID-19 treatments.
- Awards/Honors:
- Fellow, American Medical Informatics Association (2019)
- Member, American Board of Medical Specialties Clinical Informatics Sub-Board (2019)
- Invited member, CT State Health Information Exchange Advisory Board (2022)
Advising/Grants: Dr. Kashyap mentors residents and informatics fellows in Clinical Informatics education. She collaborates on grants focused on health IT innovation, including NIH-funded projects on EHR interoperability and pandemic response analytics.
Labs/Teams: Active in the Yale New Haven Health Informatics team, Clinical Decision Support Committee, and the Primary Care Users Group. Leads initiatives in the Department of Medicine’s Quality Improvement programs and chairs the Healthy Planet Users Group.