Taryn Clark, MD
Attending Physician
Clinical Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine
Taryn Clark, MD, is an emergency medicine physician and global health researcher. She received her medical degree with honors in research and honors in service from the Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at the Spirit of Charity program at LSUHSC in New Orleans with honors in ultrasonography and with focuses in wilderness medicine and global health.
She splits her time between research with Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and humanitarian work in South America and clinical duties in New York, where she is faculty at SUNY-Downstate/Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. She is volunteer faculty at the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights and Physician for Human Rights, where she supports asylum seekers with medical affidavits. Her focus is on training physician scientists and supporting diversity in the fields of austere medicine, neglected tropical diseases, and marginalized populations. She is an enrolled member of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe.
Education
Undergraduate: Whitworth University
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medical College
Residency: Louisiana State University Health Sciences College New Orleans
Research Interests
Austere health, developing physician scientists, neglected tropical diseases, asylum health