Mary Ellen Lyon, MD, DTM&H
Residency Class of 2018
Dr. Lyon (pictured right) obtained her bachelor’s degree in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and completed her emergency medicine resident at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics.
After graduating, Dr. Lyon was accepted to the Yale-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Fellowship in Global Health and International Emergency Medicine (GHIEM), which trains board eligible emergency physicians to become leaders in global health and to advance the science of global emergency care. In the process of completing a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) with the LSHTM, Dr. Lyon gained hands-on experience in public health in low-resource settings, tropical medicine and infectious disease, and work in complex humanitarian emergencies.
Currently, Dr. Lyon is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University, as well as an emergency medicine physician and educator at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, with Seed Global Health, an international NGO based in Boston. Seed believes in a future in which every country has a robust health workforce that is able to meet the health needs of its population.