Gail D’Onofrio

Dr. D’Onofrio is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine. In that post, she maintains an active clinical practice in addition to her teaching and research responsibilities.

Dr. D’Onofrio is one of only a handful of Emergency Medicine specialists funded as a principal investigator for multiple R01 grants by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. D’Onofrio’s efforts as an educator include the development of a structured curriculum to teach Emergency Medicine specialists about screening and brief intervention (SBI) for alcohol problems.

The curriculum, which employs a teaching video and skill-based practice scenarios, has been accepted by the Society of Academic Medicine and incorporated into a toolkit distributed to all emergency practitioners by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. D’Onofrio also is a co-investigator on an NIH multi-center trial entitled “National Alcohol Screening Day and Academic Emergency Medicine Department Collaborative Study.” She also has helped develop the national strategic plan for training all health professionals in SBI, funded by HRSA, AMERSA, and SAMHSA.

Dr. D’Onofrio is a member of the NIAAA advisory board for National Alcohol Screening Day, has received a NIDA grant for training chief residents in all disciplines, and her educational curriculum and teaching tools have been utilized throughout the United States and Canada.

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