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PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2009-2010

ALDEN M. LANDRY, MD, MPH Alden Landry

Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine; Associate Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Faculty Assistant Director, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA

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Dr. Landry is a practicing Emergency Medicine Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. In addition to his clinical roles, Dr Landry is also the Director of Outreach for the Office of Multicultural Affairs for the hospital. He is also completing a fellowship with the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Landry also participates in numerous activities promoting health promotion and increasing diversity in the health care fields. He recently founded a non-profit organization, Hip Hop Health Inc, which promotes health education and information to the hip hop generation. Dr Landry's areas on interest include emergency medicine, access to care, emergency department utilization and diversity in the health care fields.

Dr. Landry graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 2002, received his medical degree from the University of Alabama, School of Medicine in 2006, and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA in 2009.

IN THE NEWS:

"Aetna Foundation Sponsored Tour for Diversity in Medicine - Recent Highlights" -- Aetna News, July 31, 2012
"Changing the the Face of Medicine" -- WGBH, March 28, 2012
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Why We Need More Minority Doctors - WBUR.org quotes former CFHUF Fellows, physician Alden Landry and Samantha Kaplan “I’m an ER physician,” Dr. Alden Landry told me. “When I walk into patients’ rooms and start speaking to them and introduce myself as their doctor, often older black women will say, ‘Thank you for being my doctor! I’m so proud of you. I’m glad you’re going to be taking care of me.’ They say they feel more comfortable with me as their physician.”... -- WBUR.org, February 10, 2012
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Tours for Diversity in Medicine, co-directed by Alden Landry, M.D., former CFHUF Fellow, to launch HBCU tour during Black History Month "The inaugural tour will take 11 doctors, dentists and medical school students to five HBCUs in the south, providing premedical enrichment activities." -- blackgivesback, January 30, 2012
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Why We Need More Minority Doctors - WBUR.org quotes former CFHUF Fellows, physician Alden Landry and Samantha Kaplan “I’m an ER physician,” Dr. Alden Landry told me. “When I walk into patients’ rooms and start speaking to them and introduce myself as their doctor, often older black women will say, ‘Thank you for being my doctor! I’m so proud of you. I’m glad you’re going to be taking care of me.’ They say they feel more comfortable with me as their physician.”... -- WBUR.org, February 10, 2012
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