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Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Public Health
Manisha Juthani, MD, is the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. She is the first Indian American to serve as a commissioner in the State of Connecticut. She served as a professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine through September 2024 and currently serves as an adjunct professor of medicine. She was Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at Yale School of Medicine from 2012 to 2021. Manisha received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and MD from Cornell University Medical College, completed internal medicine residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell campus, and served as chief resident at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She came to Connecticut in 2002 as an Infectious Diseases Fellow.
