Thomas P Duffy, MD Professor of Internal Medicine WWW 403 Phone: 203-785-4744 Fax: 203-737-4244 e-mail: thomas.duffy@yale.edu

M.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1962
B.S., St. Peters, 1958
Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

Research Activities

Thomas P. Duffy, MD is Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He is currently Director of The Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale, to bring attention to the links among the arts, humanities, and the practice of medicine by a series of lectures each year for the faculty, students and surrounding community members. Dr. Duffy is founding member of the Ethics Committee which analyzes topics such as euthanasia and the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Duffy continues to teach medical students in both pre-clinical and clinical years, residents and fellows and visiting students for over 25 years. He served on the faculty of John Hopkins Medical School prior to coming to Yale. His clinical research focuses on Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Disease. He has recently been cited in the New York magazine as one of the areas best doctors in Mast Cell Disease.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Longley BJ, Tyrrell L, Lu SZ, Ma YS, Langley K, Ding TG, Duffy TP, Jacobs P, Tang LH, Modlin I. Somatic c-KIT activating mutation in urticaria pigmentosa and aggressive mastocytosis: establishment of clonality in a human mast cell neoplasm. Nature Genetics. 12(3):312-314, 1996.

2. Gupta AR, Duffy TP, Johnston MA. Incorporating multiculturalism into a doctor-patient course. Academic Medicine. 72(5):428, 1997.

3. Kaldjian LC, Wu BJ, Jekel JF, Kaldjian EP, Duffy TP. Insertion of femoral-vein catheters for practice by medical house officers during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. N Engl. J. Med. 341(27):2088-2091,1999.

4. Duffy, TP. Anemias. Atlas of Internal Medicine, p 10.1-10.5, 1999.

5. Duffy, TP. Other blood dyscrasias. Atlas of Internal Medicine, p 10.6-10.16, 1999.