ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2024
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
Makoto Mori, MD, PhD, is a cardiac surgeon-scientist at Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital. His primary focus is on improving the post-acute phase of care after patients undergo cardiac surgery from three perspectives: 1) health services utilization and policies concerning postoperative recovery, 2) measuring, characterizing, and predicting individual patient recovery trajectory, and 3) conducting trials to test interventions targeted to improve postoperative recovery. While the primary patient group of interest is patients who underwent cardiac surgery, the platform he is developing applies to a broad surgery patient population.
Dr. Mori was born and raised in Kobe, Japan. He attended Emory University and Emory School of Medicine before starting an integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency at Yale School of Medicine. He took time off from clinical residency to obtain a PhD in outcomes and health services research in the Investigative Medicine Program at Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Under Dr. Harlan Krumholz at Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Dr. Mori studied and researched ways to characterize and prediction of postoperative recovery after cardiac surgery. After residency, he plans to practice as a general cardiac surgeon with a focus on structural heart disease.