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Micaela Bayard
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA MD, Pathway on Serving Underserved and Multicultural Populations
Brown University Providence, RI AB with Honors- Human Biology, with a focus in Race and Gender Studies
MEDICAL TRAINING
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY Rheumatology Fellowship
New York-Presbyterian/ Queens Flushing, NY Internal Medicine Residency
EMPLOYMENT
Mount Sinai Health Network Mount Sinai Queens Queens, NY Assistant Professor, Rheumatology
PRACTICE LOCATIONS
Mount Sinai Doctors Queens Ambulatory Pavilion Mount Sinai Doctors Forest Hills Family Health Associates
www.linkedin.com/in/micaela-bayard
My undergraduate studies were in Human Biology with a focus in Race and Gender studies. After graduating, I worked at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center researching barriers to participation in HIV clinical trials as part of the Adelante research team.
From my time at the NIH in research I knew patient and clinical connections would be central to my career. I attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts and was part of a pathway program ‘Serving Underserved and Multicultural Populations.’ After medical school I matched into internal medicine residency in Queens, NY, close to my mother’s family including my grandfather, who had been a practicing physician in Brooklyn for over 40 years.
Residency was a balance of long hours at the hospital and discovering how to connect my public health and community interests. I spent time rotating through inpatient, outpatient, and intensive care at New York Hospital Queens (now New York Presbyterian- Queens), and had irreplaceable hands-on experience in one of the most diverse zip codes in Queens.
I interned at the New York City Department of Health learning from a systems perspective on care coordination, was a research assistant for a large rheumatoid arthritis cohort CATCH, and additionally rotated at SUNY Downstate to gain more experience from a busy university hospital- all while finishing my internal medicine residency. I completed my specialty training at Icahn School of Medicine, where I worked with rheumatologist Dr. Leslie Kerr, who opened my eyes to the needs for rheumatology care in the community of color.
Now I balance my rheumatology career in Queens with teaching medical students; personal projects like my lupus support group; and my storytelling project on women of color in medicine. My creative approach—no matter the project—is to build community. For me, community is no longer about physical space but about redefining how we create space to build connections. Working and living in NYC has given me the opportunity to personally connect with so many innovative leaders in medicine and beyond. I look forward to designing new ways to connect around health care needs.
Ultimately, it’s about creating community for a healthier future.