Progress Notes by
Julia Hyacinthe, MD

Julia Hyacinthe, MD, is a New York City-based Family Medicine resident with a longstanding commitment to health equity, community engagement, and serving historically marginalized populations. A native Long Islander and the daughter of Haitian and Colombian immigrants, she earned her undergraduate degree in Global Health from Georgetown University, where her experiences ranged from supporting rural healthcare initiatives in Honduras and HIV testing programs in Washington, DC, to conducting qualitative research on Indigenous family self-determination at an Aboriginal Health Service in Australia. Before medical school, she worked with Northwell Health’s Center for Global Health, contributing to global health programming, grant development, and patient navigation efforts that connected individuals to critical social and community resources. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she served in leadership and mentorship roles focused on increasing representation of Black and Latinx students in medicine, and graduated as a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received an Advanced Certificate in Global Health. Her academic work included research on physician implicit bias and strategies to mitigate its impact on patient care, and a clinical rotation in rural Uganda focused on community-based care and global public health. As a resident, she remains deeply committed to health equity, community engagement, and understanding health and healthcare delivery in diverse and resource-limited settings. She serves on her residency program’s Social Justice Committee, helping develop educational programming, workshops, and discussions exploring the intersection of medicine, social justice, and current events. Outside of medicine, she enjoys cooking, baking, reading, traveling, motorcycling, photography, and crafting.