Courtney Bearnot, MD, MPH
Emergency Medicine, PGY4
After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Bearnot served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal. There, she focused on improving the efficiency of vaccination campaigns and on increasing knowledge and access to reproductive health services among women and high school aged teenagers. She extended her service an extra year to serve as the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator where she developed and implemented a new M&E strategy for the organization. She earned her MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. She won a Student Research Award for her thesis – an assessment of the burden of mental health disorders, substance abuse disorders, and STIs among incarcerated women in Malaysia. She graduated from Stanford Medical School where she studied atopic diseases among children and their families in Bangladesh and the association between congenital syphilis and incarceration in Santa Clara County, California. Most recently, she has been conducting research on the serologic biomarkers that are predictive of mortality in Ebola Virus Disease and outcomes of critically ill patients presenting to the Emergency Department in Kigali, Rwanda. She is interested in working clinically in humanitarian crises and infectious disease outbreaks and performing research that helps improve the delivery of health care interventions in these settings.
Past Resident Directors
2020 – 2022
Nicole Michaeli, MD, MPH
2019 – 2020
Meagan Barry, MD, PhD
Jared Giordano, MD
2018-2019
Angela McLaughlin, MD
Sasha Yakhkind, MD MS
Rachael Zacks, MD
2017-2018
Kathryn Cohen, MD
Matthew Murphey, MD
2016-2017
Eric Chow, MD
Alex Friedman, MD