Dr. Lichtman is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Co-director of the Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research, and Director of the Humanities, Arts, and Public Health Practice at Yale (HAPPY) Initiative.

Dr. Lichtman has been actively involved in regional and national studies of cardiovascular and stroke outcomes using large administrative databases. She is principal investigator for several studies examining disparities in recurrent stroke among elderly Medicare beneficiaries, with a special emphasis on studying the patterns of care and outcomes for women. She has served on numerous National American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Committees and Writing Groups, including leading both an Advisory and Scientific Statement on depression and heart disease.  

She was the recipient of the C. Miller Fisher, MD Neuroscience Visionary Award from the American Heart Association and is a graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program.