Adaira Landry is an award-winning mentor, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Emergency Medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and contributor at Forbes magazine. At age 16 she attended University of California, Berkeley to study Molecular Cell Biology. She then attended University of California, Los Angeles for medical school. She completed residency at New York University as a chief resident. She attended Harvard Graduate School of Education for a Masters in Education and earned a fellowship in ultrasound in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has held various positions that foster career development: Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine residency, Ultrasound Fellowship Director for Harvard Emergency Medicine fellows, and Society Advisor to Harvard Medical Students. She is the Co-Chair of her department’s Diversity and Inclusion committee. She was previously a lead consultant for EchoNous, an AI-driven ultrasound start-up.
She is co-author of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact with Harper Collins, a book for early-career professionals to navigate the workplace. She has published in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review and has been featured in Women’s Health and New York Times and The New Yorker magazines. Since 2019 she has been awarded thirteen awards related to mentorship and education including Brigham and Women’s Junior Faculty Mentor Award, Harvard Medical School Excellence in Mentoring Award, Emergency Medicine Residency Association Mentor of the Year, and Mass General Brigham Educator Award. She speaks nationally on topics related to career development and the experience of being a woman of color in the workforce..
Adaira Landry is also a mother to three children (7, 5, and 3 years old). She hopes to raise her 3 children to understand and value the importance of supporting others in need.