Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
Dr. Ferrante is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Operations Core of the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, and an attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her research program, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA), is centered at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics, with the overarching goal of understanding and improving the functional outcomes of critically ill older adults. Dr. Ferrante’s work has been recognized most recently with the Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science (2023) from the American Thoracic Society, where she also serves as Co-Chair of the Aging in Critical Care Interest Group and is Chair of the Critical Care Assembly Program Committee for the ATS 2024 International Conference. Dr. Ferrante is co-founder/co-chair of the Geriatrics KEG at SCCM and co-chair of the SCCM guideline on Caring for Older Patients in the ICU.