Dr. Yasmin Rawlins

Biography

Yasmin Rawlins, MD, was born in New Jersey and attended high school in New York City. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2015 with a major in African American Studies and a minor in Human Evolutionary Biology, and her undergraduate thesis was a qualitative study of patient experience with the Family Van, a mobile health clinic providing free health services to underserved communities in Boston. She received the Sangu Delle Prize for Social Engagement Thesis and other honors. Yasmin earned her M.D. from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2019, where she was actively involved in community service and leadership roles within the Black Latino Students Organization and the American Medical Women’s Association. She researched ethnic differences in participants of OnTrackNY, an early intervention program for psychosis. After graduation, she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Yasmin completed her internship year in psychiatry at the University of Southern California and is currently a psychiatry resident at Yale University, continuing her focus on clinical interests in racial and ethnic health disparities, public psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

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