Dr. Yasin Abul is a board certified physician and researcher with a diverse background in internal medicine, pulmonology, geriatrics, and infectious diseases. He graduated from Marmara Medical School in Istanbul, Türkiye, where he completed his combined internal medicine and pulmonary medicine training.
After relocating to the United States, Dr. Abul further expanded his expertise by completing an internal medicine residency and geriatrics fellowship at Brown University affiliated programs in Rhode Island, and an infectious diseases fellowship at Stony Brook University in New York.
Currently, Dr. Abul serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinician Educator in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is an ABIM board-certified physician in internal medicine and geriatrics, and ABIM board-eligible physician in pulmonology and infectious diseases.
Dr. Abul's research focuses on pulmonary vascular diseases and respiratory infections, with particular emphasis on risk stratification, biomarkers, and health services research. He explores these areas in the context of aging, obesity-metabolic syndrome, immunosenescence, and vaccinations.
His exceptional enthusiasm, research and clinical work earned him the Actelion Pulmonary Vascular Study Award in 2011 and "The Henry Izeman, MD Prize in Geriatric Medicine" for exemplary performance as a Geriatric Medicine Fellow in 2018.
Dr. Abul's commitment to advancing medical knowledge is evident in his academic pursuits. In 2023, he completed the Office of Academic Affiliation Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center's Center on Innovation in Long-Term Services and Supports. Additionally, he earned a Master's degree in Clinical Translational Research from Brown University School of Public Health with a merit scholarship award in 2024.
As the director of Brown Physicians Geriatric Medicine Clinics, and a board member of Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) Rhode Island, Dr. Abul serves complex patients with pulmonary and cardiac comorbidities, as well as those experiencing Long COVID symptoms.
| Abul Y, DeVone F, Singh M, Halladay C, Bayer TA, McConeghy KW, Gravenstein S, Rudolph JL. "Class II/III Obesity Prevalence in Residents of US Nursing Homes: Cross-sectional Study and Forecasting 2030 with COVID-19 Perspective." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 106, no. 4, 2023, pp. 25-29. |
| Abul Y, Leeder C, Gravenstein S. "Epidemiology and Clinical Presentation of COVID-19 in Older Adults." Infectious disease clinics of North America, vol. 37, no. 1, 2023, pp. 1-26. |
| Nugent C, Abul Y, White EM, Shehadeh F, Kaczynski M, Oscar Felix L, Ganesan N, Oyebanji OA, Vishnepolskiy I, Didion EM, Paxitzis A, Sheehan ML, Chan PA, Pfeifer WM, Dickerson E, Kamojjala S, Wilson BM, Mylonakis E, King CL, Balazs AB, Canaday DH, Gravenstein S. "Second monovalent SARS-CoV-2 mRNA booster restores Omicron-specific neutralizing activity in both nursing home residents and health care workers." Vaccine, vol. 41, no. 22, 2023, pp. 3403-3409. |
| Saade EA, Abul Y, McConeghy K, Edward Davidson H, Han L, Joyce N, Canaday DH, Hsueh L, Bosco E, Gravenstein S. "High-dose influenza vaccines for the prevention of hospitalization due to cardiovascular events in older adults in the nursing home: Post-hoc analysis of a cluster-randomized trial." Vaccine, 2022. |
| Pehlivanlar Küçük M, Öztuna F, Abul Y, Özsu S, Kutlu M, Özlü T. "Prognostic value of red cell distribution width and echocardiographic parameters in patients with pulmonary embolism." Advances in respiratory medicine, vol. 87, no. 2, 2019, pp. 69-76. |
| Saade, Elie, Joyce, Nina, Ogarek, Jessica, Davidson, H Edward, Han, Lisa, Canaday, David, Yasin, Abul, Shireman, Theresa, Mor, Vincent, Gravenstein, Stefan. "1953. Comparative Effectiveness of High- vs. Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccine on Hospitalization for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Nursing-Home Residents: A Post-hoc Analysis From a Large Cluster-Randomized Trial." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 5, no. suppl_1, 2018, pp. S564-S564. |
| Dalar L, Abul Y. "Safety and Efficacy of Oki Stenting Used to Treat Obstructions in the Right Mainstem Bronchus." Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 212-217. |
| Dalar L, Karasulu L, Abul Y, Özdemir C, Sökücü SN, Tarhan M, Altin S. "Bronchoscopic Treatment in the Management of Benign Tracheal Stenosis: Choices for Simple and Complex Tracheal Stenosis." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 101, no. 4, 2016, pp. 1310-7. |
| Ozsu S, Oztuna F, Mentese A, Abul Y, Ozlu T. "Diagnostic value of suPAR in differentiating noncardiac pleural effusions from cardiac pleural effusions." The clinical respiratory journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 61-6. |
| Ozgul G, Cetinkaya E, Ozgul MA, Abul Y, Gencoglu A, Kamiloglu E, Gul S, Dincer HE. "Efficacy and safety of electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy with or without radial endobronchial ultrasound for peripheral lung lesions." Endoscopic ultrasound, vol. 5, no. 3, 2016, pp. 189-95. |
| Dalar L, Ozdemir C, Abul Y, Sokucu SN, Karasulu L, Urer HN, Altin S. "Endobronchial Treatment of Carcinoid Tumors of the Lung." The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, vol. 64, no. 2, 2016, pp. 166-71. |
| Abul, Yasin, Chow, Robert, Spallone, Amy, Luft, Benjamin, Marcos, Luis a. "Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Hispanics Admitted to a Tertiary Medical Center in Long Island." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 3, no. suppl_1, 2016. |
| Dalar L, Abul Y, Özdemir C. "Reply." The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 102, no. 6, 2016, pp. 2133-2134. |
| Dalar L, Özdemir C, Abul Y, Karasulu L, Sökücü SN, Akbaş A, Altn S. "Therapeutic bronchoscopic interventions for malignant airway obstruction: A retrospective study from experience on 547 patients." Medicine, vol. 95, no. 23, 2016, pp. e3886. |
| Ozsu S, Bektas H, Abul Y, Ozlu T, Örem A. "Value of Cardiac Troponin and sPESI in Treatment of Pulmonary Thromboembolism at Outpatient Setting." Lung, vol. 193, no. 4, 2015, pp. 559-65. |
| Abul Y, Ozsu S, Mentese A, Durmus I, Bektas H, Pehlivanlar M, Turan OE, Sumer A, Orem A, Ozlu T. "Carbonic anhydrase IX in the prediction of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with hemodynamically stable acute pulmonary embolism." Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, vol. 20, no. 8, 2014, pp. 838-43. |
| Haktanir Abul M, Abul Y, Erguven M, Karatoprak EY, Karakurt S, Celikel T. "Evaluation of Airway Resistance in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis." Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, vol. 27, no. 3, 2014, pp. 138-142. |
| Ozgul MA, Cetinkaya E, Kirkil G, Ozgul G, Abul Y, Acat M, Onaran H, Urer HN, Tutar N, Dincer HE. "Lymph node characteristics of sarcoidosis with endobronchial ultrasound." Endoscopic ultrasound, vol. 3, no. 4, 2014, pp. 232-7. |
| Ozsu S, Abul Y, Gunaydin S, Orem A, Ozlu T. "Prognostic value of red cell distribution width in patients with pulmonary embolism." Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, vol. 20, no. 4, 2014, pp. 365-70. |
| Abul Y, Ozsu S, Korkmaz A, Bulbul Y, Orem A, Ozlu T. "Red cell distribution width: a new predictor for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism." Chronic respiratory disease, vol. 11, no. 2, 2014, pp. 73-81. |
| Oztuna F, Pehlivanlar M, Abul Y, Tekinbas C, Ozoran Y, Ozlu T. "Adult inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the trachea: case report and literature review." Respiratory care, vol. 58, no. 7, 2013, pp. e72-6. |
| Ozsu S, Abul Y, Mentese A, Bektas H, Uzun A, Ozlu T, Porcel JM. "Pentraxin-3: A novel biomarker for discriminating parapneumonic from other exudative effusions." Respirology (Carlton, Vic.), vol. 18, no. 4, 2013, pp. 657-62. |
| Cincin A, Abul Y, Ozben B, Tanrikulu A, Topaloglu N, Ozgul G, Karakurt S, Oktay A. "Pleural fluid amino-terminal brain natriuretic peptide in patients with pleural effusions." Respiratory care, vol. 58, no. 2, 2013, pp. 313-9. |
| Abul Y, Ozsu S, Karakurt S, Ozben B, Durmus I, Toprak A, Ozlu T, Celikel T. "Prediction of right ventricular dysfunction from radiographic estimates of right descending pulmonary artery in hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism patients." Cardiology journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 2013, pp. 184-9. |
| Ozsu S, Abul Y, Orem A, Oztuna F, Bulbul Y, Yaman H, Ozlu T. "Predictive value of troponins and simplified pulmonary embolism severity index in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism." Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine, vol. 8, no. 1, 2013, pp. 34. |
| Yilmaz N, Abul Y, Bicakcigil M, Golabi P, Celikel C, Karakurt S, Yavuz S. "Induced sputum as a method for detection of systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease." Rheumatology International, vol. 32, no. 7, 2012, pp. 1921-5. |
| Ozgul MA, Ozgul G, Cetinkaya E, Abul Y, Kirkil G, Seyhan EC, Kamiloglu E, Gul S. "Multiplanar and two-dimensional imaging of central airway stenting with multidetector computed tomography." Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, 2012, pp. 27. |
| Ozsu S, Abul Y, Yilmaz I, Ozsu A, Oztuna F, Bulbul Y, Ozlu T. "Prognostic significance of PaO2/PaCO2 ratio in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism." The clinical respiratory journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 104-11. |
| Ozsu S, Abul Y, Gulsoy A, Bulbul Y, Yaman S, Ozlu T. "Red cell distribution width in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome." Lung, vol. 190, no. 3, 2012, pp. 319-26. |
| Abul Y, Eryuksel E, Evman S, Karakurt S, Batirel H, Yuksel M, Kodalli N, Kalayci C, Bozkurt S, Ceyhan B. "A case of mediastinal lymphangioma: endosonographic appearance." Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001), vol. 38, no. 1, 2011, pp. 33-6. |
| Abul Y, Karakurt S, Ozben B, Toprak A, Celikel T. "C-reactive protein in acute pulmonary embolism." Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research, vol. 59, no. 1, 2011, pp. 8-14. |
| Abul Y, Karakurt S, Bostanci K, Yuksel M, Eryuksel E, Evman S, Celikel T. "Spontaneous pneumothorax and ozone levels: is there a relation?." Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 16-9. |
| Abul Y, Eryuksel E, Karakurt S, Yumuk F, Kodalli N, Celikel T, Ceyhan B. "A malign mesenchymal tumor (sarcoma) of the pulmonary artery presenting as a form of acute thromboembolism: educational case." The clinical respiratory journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 2010, pp. e1-3. |
| Abul Y, Eryuksel E, Balci M, Yumuk F, Karakurt S, Ceyhan B. "Cancer and tuberculosis: case series." Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, pp. 392-4. |
| Abul Y, Abul MH, Silay MS, Silay YS. "The role of nanobacteria in cardiac sarcoidosis." Medical hypotheses, vol. 68, no. 5, 2007, pp. 1180. |
Venous thromboembolism in older adults, Coronavirus in older adults, immunesenescence
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | MD | Marmara University |
| Residency | Brown University, Kent Hospital, internal medicine | 2018-2021 | Warwick, RI, United States |
| Clinical Fellowhip | Brown Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital | 2017-2018 | Providence, RI , United States |
| Clinical Fellowhip | State University of New York at Stony Brook, University Hospital at Stony Brook, infectious diseases | 2015-2017 | Stony Brook, NY, United States |
| Postgraduate Traning / Short term Fellowship | University of Health Sciences, Yedikule Thoracic Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Hospital , interventional pulmology | 2011-2011 | Istanbul, Turkiye |
| Combined Internal Medicine/Pulmonary Residency Program | Marmara University, Internal Medicine/Pulmonary Medicine | 2003-2009 | Istanbul, Turkiye |
2021 Brown School of Public Health Merit based Public Health Honors Award
2021 Brown School of Public Health SURDNA Award/Support
2021 RI ACP Poster Competition Finalist
2020 RI ACP Poster Competition Finalist
2019 RI ACP Poster Competition Finalist
2018 The Henry Izeman, MD Prize in Geriatric Medicine for Exemplary Performance as a Geriatric Medicine Fellow
2016 Travel Award IDSA week
2011 The Best Article of Pulmonary Vascular Diseases, Turkish Thoracic Society 14th Congress ACTELION Awards
2009 The Second-Best Poster Discussion Award at Turkish Thoracic Society 12th Congress
2009 The Third Best Poster Award at Turkish Thoracic Society 12th Congress
1995 “Valedictorian” graduated from Izmir Selcuk High School with highest honor degree
1995 Ranked in the first 5% among 1.5 million high school graduates in Nationwide University Entrance Exam in Turkiye and accepted to English based medical school, Marmara University School of Medicine
1995 President of Izmir Selcuk High School Honor Council
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Besdine, Richard | Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Gravenstein, Stefan | David S. Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Director, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Mills, Whitney | Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research) |
| Mujahid, Nadia | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Mylonakis, Eleftherios | Charles C.J. Carpenter, MD Professor of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology |
| Nanda, Aman | Professor of Medicine |
| Rudolph, James | Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
| Thomas, Kali | Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
VA Providence Medical Center, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospital, Kent Hospital
| American Board of Internal Medicine Certificate | ABIM, Internal medicine | 2021- | |
| European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine | European Union of Medical Specialists, Respiratory Diseases | 2013- | |
| Certification of Special Qualifications for Pulmonary Diseases | Turkiye Ministry of Health, Pulmonary medicine | 2009- |
| Assistant Professor and Clinician Educator. Medicine, 2022- |
| Attending physician and HSR Advanced Research Fellow. Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 2021- |
| Affiliate. Gerontology and Health Care Research, 2021- |
| Attending physician. The Miriam Hosptial, 2021- |
| Attending physician. Rhode Island Hospital, 2021- |
| Attending physician. Kent Hospital, 2021- |
2010-2015: Turkish Thoracic Society and Lung Health and Intensive Care Association, Instructor and lecturer of basic and advanced bronchoscopy courses throughout the cities, universities, and government hospitals of Turkiye
2010-2015: Karadeniz Technical University School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkiye
Attending Physician, Pulmonary Inpatient, Outpatient and Consultation Service, Hospital, Turkey (Theoretical and hands on teaching for fellows and residents during the pulmonary/bronchoscopy rotation)
Lectures to 2 nd year and 4 th year medicalstudents on Pathophysiology of Pulmonary Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Altitude Related Illnesses, Anaphylaxis
