Have you ever wondered why there are health disparities in the black community?Dr. Ernest J. Barthélemy is the Division Chief of Neurosurgery at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York, and the founding president of the Society of Haitian Neuroscientists. A Brooklyn-born Haitian-American New Yorker.
Dr. Barthélemy obtained his MD and neurosurgery residency training at Mount Sinai at the Icahn School of Medicine. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow at Harvard University.
He also completed a Master of Public Health degree with concentrations in Global Health and Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a scientist, his research focuses on advancing global health equity and improving outcomes in populations disproportionately burdened by acute neurosurgical disorders. Dr. Barthélemy also sits on the Global Health Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy and is the 2021-2023 Co-Chair of the Young Neurosurgeons Forum of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Dr. Barthelemy will unpack his personal story.
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