Sharing meals with family and friends, singing, and reading.
Professor Paula Kavathas received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin and was a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the Yale Medical School faculty in 1986. ). She is currently Vice Chair for Diversity in the Departments of Immunobiology and of Laboratory Medicine. Her passions are research, science literacy, and gender equity. Towards these goals: (i) she teaches two undergraduate Courses, MCDB 050 “Immunology and Microorganisms” and MCDB 109 “Immunity and Contagion”, (ii) is a member of the SWIM (status of women in medicine) executive board and (iii) collaborates studying acquired resistance in cancer immunotherapy. She is also an institutional leader for Yale’s membership in a network of 40 universities called CIRTL working to train the next generation of science faculty in effective pedagogy for diverse learners.