Julie Byrnes
MD/MPH student, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Julie Byrnes (she/her/hers) is a second year MD/MPH student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai expected to graduate in June 2023. After graduating from Vassar College in 2017, Julie conducted a project via the Watson fellowship in which she looked at how different countries approach addiction treatment and policy. Afterwards, she worked as a Mental Health Coordinator for NYC Correctional Health Services, serving as assistant to the Directors of Mental Health and Substance Use at Riker's Island. Julie has a longstanding interest in mental health and understanding the mind more broadly, having majored in Cognitive Science in college, with a particular focus on substance use and the varied roles that trauma plays in one’s neurophysiology and lived experience, with the goal of using such an understanding to advance mental health and substance use policy. Julie is very honored to work with the YES team and to contribute to their goal of advancing the human rights of the LGBTQIA community.