Staff Clinician, Assistant Research Physician
Specialty(s): Allergy and Immunology, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics Provides direct clinical care to patients at NIH Clinical Center
Education:
M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Languages Spoken: Spanish
Biography
Dr. Young earned a pre-doctoral fellowship through Howard Hughes Medical Institute and worked on a live attenuated Cholera vaccine at the Channing Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She received her doctorate in medicine from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, WA, with clinical rotations across urban, rural, and military sites across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, and Montana. She then completed dual residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, where she was honored with the Keck School of Medicine of USC Outstanding Teaching in Pediatric Core Clerkship award. She completed a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in San Francisco, CA. Because of her clinical and scholarly achievements, she was selected as the UCSF Chief Fellow in Allergy/Immunology and served on the Graduate Medical Education Committee. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics and is licensed to practice medicine in California. She is fluent in English and Spanish and her poetry has been displayed at the gardens of San Francisco General Hospital.