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...Hafler, who will also become chief of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, said that in building and organizing a new and larger clinical department for Yale, he would likely be hiring many new faculty and researchers—possibly from Harvard. He said that Yale is offering attractive positions for new researchers, and that he certainly hoped he would be able to move his entire lab, which according to its Web site includes two assistant professors, four junior faculty instructors, and almost 10 post-doctoral fellows...
...Kevin C. O'Connor, an assistant professor of neurology who has worked with Hafler for over 10 years, said that Hafler has expressed interest in taking his senior staff with him to Yale, but that nothing has been finalized...
...Alpern said that while Yale does not specifically target Harvard in searching for new faculty, many top quality medical researchers happen to be in Boston. Most of them, he said, are not interested in leaving Harvard unless Yale is offering an attractive position in an high-priority, visionary program...
...Nancy Tarbell, HMS's dean of academic and clinical affairs, said she was not concerned about the recent departures marking a trend, as she viewed Yale's successful recruitment efforts as more of a testimony than a threat to Harvard's ability to train leading researchers. That peer institutions have set their sights on Harvard faculty and offered them leadership positions should be viewed as "a positive," Tarbell said...
...Alpern said that Hafler's decision to leave for Yale would likely not hurt Harvard's neurology program significantly, given its depth of researchers, but noted that the appointment would be a "major improvement" for Yale's department. He also said that Harvard and Yale have traditionally collaborated in research, despite their friendly competition, and that Harvard faculty had helped Yale build its cancer center...