Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New Rochelle, New York, United States
Dr. Lynne Holden is a national leader in diversifying the healthcare workforce. She received her undergraduate degree from Howard University and her medical degree from Temple University. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, NY. Dr. Holden is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Vice-Chair for Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the Emergency Department, and the Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.
Dr. Holden serves on several boards including the American Board of Emergency Medicine, the Friends of the National Library of Medicine, the Co-Chair of the Executive Advisory Board for the National Academy Foundation/DC Public School Career Technical Education in Washington, DC, and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Community Advisory Board in Harlem.
She is the Co-founder and President of Mentoring in Medicine, Inc. (MIM) which is a health and science youth development 501©3 nonprofit organization founded in 2007. The mission of MIM is to expose, inspire, educate, and equip students from elementary school through medical school. MIM has reached nearly 62,000 students, parents, and educators, assisted nearly 750 students to realize their dream to successfully gain admission to health professional school, and recruited 1,500 biomedical volunteers.
Mentoring in Medicine has earned nearly eighty press features including CNN, the New York Times, and FOX News. Dr. Holden has published extensively and received numerous awards for her work, such as the Maybelline NY-Essence Empowerment through Education Award (2007), Society of Academic Emergency Visionary Educator Award (2008), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leader (2009), Washington Post Root 100 Leader (2010), Lifetime TV Remarkable Woman (2010), American Medical Association Inspirational Physician (2016) and the United Hospital Fund Distinguished Community Service Award (2019). Dr. Holden can be reached at info@medicalmentor.org.
Promoting Careers in Health Care for Urban Youth: What Students, Parents and Educators can Teach Us
Saturday, March 25, 2023
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM US EST
