Helen Ouyang, MD MPH

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Dr. Helen Ouyang is aboard-certified emergency physician and Associate Professor of EmergencyMedicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is a contributing writer for The New York TimesMagazine and has also written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, New York, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and others. Her writing has beena finalist for the National Magazine Award, anthologized in The BestAmerican Science and Nature Writing,  and funded by The Pulitzer Center.Please visit her website for more information abouther writing: https://helenouyang.com/ Dr.Ouyang's publications have also appeared in many academic journals, includingin JAMA and The Lancet, and she currently serves as a reviewer for Annalsof Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. Sheis also a mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Until 2015, she was the AssociateDirector of Columbia’s International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. She'sworked in 20 countries across five continents in public health and humanitarianassistance. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts fromBrown University, she attended medical school at the Johns Hopkins School ofMedicine and earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard, where she was alsoa Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Center forPublic Leadership. She completed her residency training in emergency medicine atHarvard's Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital.Dr. Ouyang currently serves as an attending physician at NewYork-PresbyterianHospital inNew York City.