I am an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician. I doctor, teach, write and advocate at the intersections between health, the criminal justice system, and human rights.

My clinical work is primarily with homeless and justice-involved elders, especially people who are recurrently incarcerated in the final decades of their lives.

From 2023-2024, I sat on the New York City Board of Correction. I also do some work in politics. In 2022 I founded and ran an organization that supported the pro-choice side of state ballot initiatives. Currently, I’m helping State Senator Zellnor Myrie run for mayor of New York City.

I grew up in Toronto and now live in Brooklyn with my husband and two kids. I studied History at Brown University and completed medical training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Photo by Rose Lichter-Mark

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