JENNIFER WEINTRAUB, MD: Faculty Director of Education

Dr. Jennifer Weintraub (she/her) is the Faculty Director of Education for the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program. In this role, she mentors HRP students and collaborates with faculty leadership to develop longitudinal educational initiatives with the overall goal of strengthening knowledge and skills to effectively work with asylum seekers. She also works as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Assistant Program Director for the Primary Care Track of the Internal Medicine Residency, and she sees patients as a general internist at the Internal Medicine Associates practice at Mount Sinai. Dr. Weintraub has been a long-time educator in a variety of medical student courses, a regular volunteer in the medical student run free clinic, and has created and implemented a wide variety of educational curricula for students of all levels. She has won multiple awards for teaching including the Resident Student Teaching Award, the EHHOP Excellence in Teaching Award, and was recently nominated for the Institute for Medical Education’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

Dr. Weintraub is driven by the moral imperative to care and advocate for the most vulnerable members in our society while teaching current and future physicians. She feels deeply grateful for the opportunity to unite these interests through working in the MSHRP. She graduated summa cum laude from Binghamton University, received her MD from the Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed the one-year SGIM TEACH Certification.