Yvette Calderon, MD
ABEM
Biography
Dr. Calderon is currently a tenured Emergency Medicine (EM) professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Chair of the Department of EM at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She will transition to her new role as the SKMC Department Chair of Emergency Medicine
and the Jefferson Health System Leader for Emergency Medicine in April. She is renowned for her lifelong commitment to providing care to the underserved, finding solutions to address disparate medical care in vulnerable communities, and promoting diversity in medicine to reflect the diversity of patients served. It must be stressed that her research has been nationally and internationally transformational in incorporating public health initiatives in EM. She designed and implemented screening programs to identify patients with undiagnosed and/or untreated HIV/HCV and successfully linked these patients to care. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Calderon received her medical degree and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her undergraduate degree at Brown University. Dr. Calderon completed her medical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center and her residency at Jacobi Medical Center.
and the Jefferson Health System Leader for Emergency Medicine in April. She is renowned for her lifelong commitment to providing care to the underserved, finding solutions to address disparate medical care in vulnerable communities, and promoting diversity in medicine to reflect the diversity of patients served. It must be stressed that her research has been nationally and internationally transformational in incorporating public health initiatives in EM. She designed and implemented screening programs to identify patients with undiagnosed and/or untreated HIV/HCV and successfully linked these patients to care. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Calderon received her medical degree and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her undergraduate degree at Brown University. Dr. Calderon completed her medical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center and her residency at Jacobi Medical Center.