Adaira Landry, MD

Adaira Landry is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Emergency Medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed college at University of California, Berkeley and medical school at University of California, Los Angeles. She attended residency at New York University where she was selected as chief resident. She completed her Masters in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a fellowship in ultrasound in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has held various positions that foster career development: Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine residency, Ultrasound Fellowship Director for Harvard Emergency Medicine fellows, and Society Advisor to Harvard Medical Students.

She speaks and writes about navigating the workplace. She has published in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review and has been featured in Women’s Health and New York Times and The New Yorker magazines. She is a Forbes healthcare contributor. She is the co-founder of Writing in Color, a non-profit focused on teaching people of color how to write. Her book MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact is published with Hanover Square Press/Harper Collins focuses on teaching early career professionals how to navigate the workplace.