After graduating the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, I trained in Pediatrics and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I have served as a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Hospital while working in their Adolescent Health Center. From 2004-2021, I was the Medical Director of the Primary Care Health Service at Barnard College. During that time, I oversaw and set policy for my wonderful team of clinicians caring for the students and I loved providing direct patient care there as well.

While at Barnard, I developed an acute awareness of the difficulty students were having in juggling chronic issues, whether medical or mental health, with their studies and extracurricular activities. More and more, students were arriving onto campus with increasingly complex conditions and fewer were planning for how they would manage both their lives in general and their particular conditions on their own. It became clear to me that without meticulous, advance planning, it can be a daunting task to adjust to the responsibility for managing a chronic issue while also adjusting to a new and likely stressful college environment. This is where, I believe, EmpowerUny, can be so very helpful.

Marjorie Seidenfeld (She/her)