Yamicia Connor, MD, PhD, MPH

Yamicia Connor, MD, PhD was most recently a Chief Resident Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She has a diverse training background in medicine, science and engineering. Yamicia received a dual SB degree in Biology and Chemical/Biological Engineering and a minor in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2007, where she developed research interests at the intersection of medicine, engineering, and science. She further cultivated these interests in graduate school, where she obtained a PhD in Health Sciences and Technology: Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013 and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 2016. She was recognized as a 2019 STAT Wunderkind, a cohort of the best young researchers in health and medicine in North America as chosen by STAT’s editorial staff. Dr. Connor founded Tech Tutors, an educational services provider that specialized in technical fields. She was also featured in the “I Am a Scientist” Campaign aimed at providing tools to make STE(A)M careers technically and psychologically accessible to all students. Dr. Connor hopes to use her passion for science, engineering, and medicine to promote the health of all women. She is interested in developing a comprehensive and generalizable approach to incorporate disparities into the quality improvement process; she proposes that we change the way we think about health care disparities and manage these issues with the same scientific rigor that we approach any other problem in medicine.