Chelsea McGuire, MD

Biography

Chelsea McGuire, MD grew up in Syracuse, NY and completed her undergraduate degree at University of Rochester. She deferred medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine for one year to study HIV prevention in the Dominican Republic as a Fulbright Research Fellow. At Einstein, she helped found the Community-Based Service Learning Program and develop a Community-Student Advisory Board to inform student projects in the Bronx. Dr. McGuire completed training in community organizing and put those skills to work as the Student Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program NY-Metro. She also continued to pursue her interests in global health, working first on a quality-improvement project in Kenya and later in partnership with Rwandan medical students to research adolescent sexual and reproductive health access in Rwanda.