Remembering Jacqueline Satchell, MD

The Department of Internal Medicine organized the first honorary rounds of Dr. Jackie Satchell on November 4, 2021 during the major medical rounds. The event commemorated the life and work of Jacqueline Rosemarie Satchell, MD, an assistant professor of medicine (general practice) and a leading clinician educator in the general internal medicine section and the VA Connecticut health system, who died suddenly on the 7th October 2020. The conference was followed by the dedication of the VA Women Veteran’s Center as the Dr. Jacqueline Satchell Women’s Center.

A faculty member for over 20 years, Satchell had served as the medical director of the VA Women Veterans Program since 2018, overseeing the care of nearly 5,000 female veterans. After his death at the age of 51, the School of General Internal Medicine established the annual chair in his honor, said Patrick G. O’Connor, MD, MPH, Dan Adams and Amanda Adams, professor of general medicine and head of section of general internal medicine. The faculty committee included Chris Ruser, MD, associate professor of medicine (general practice); Lori Bastian, MD, MPH, professor of internal medicine (general medicine); Sally Haskell, MD, professor (general internal medicine); Mukta Dhond, MD, assistant professor (general internal medicine); Stephen Huot, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (nephrology) and senior associate dean for higher medical education; and O’Connor.

The inaugural Satchell Lecture was delivered by Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and CNH Long Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), on the topic of COVID-19, equity and the role of policies and Partnerships for health justice. Nunez-Smith began her remarks with reminiscences of Satchell, who was one of the first people Nunez-Smith met when she arrived at Yale School of Medicine as a scholar in 2004.

“One of my best memories is sitting at his kitchen table – his daughters were running around – and we had the best conversation and connection around the importance of health equity, connecting with the community. , to be in this posture of service to those who are marginalized and minority, ”said Nunez-Smith. “And I know that for many of us, Jackie remains that North Star in the way she behaved with us as colleagues, with her family, with her patients and with her many communities that have had the chance to call him “member”. “

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