Meet 2022 Award Recipient
Courtney Connolly
Courtney came to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Biology and graduated magna cum laude. Before attending Icahn, she worked as a Harrison Surgical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania studying intraoperative fluorescent imaging and its use in surgical oncology. She entered the MD program in 2016.
While at Icahn, Courtney co-founded Girls Empowered in Medicine and Science (GEMS), an empowerment program for young women underrepresented in science and medicine that aims to help girls cultivate an early interest in STEM and connect them with female role models in these fields. She developed GEMS as a first-year and oversaw its growth from one local school in East Harlem to a program that reaches across New York City and is partnered with the Center for Excellence in Youth Education. She was also co-president of the American Medical Women’s Association, a senior clinician in the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership Women’s Health Clinic, a leader of the OB/GYN and Oncology interest groups, a mentor for MedDOCs, and a member of the ISMMS Admissions Committee during her time at Sinai. She took a scholarly year to perform research with Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates, resulting in two first-author publications, and has also co-authored additional articles within OB/GYN and Breast Surgery.
Courtney would like to thank her parents, sisters, family, and friends for their endless support on this journey and would like to specifically thank her mother, Pauline, for being her first female role model in STEM. She would also like to thank Dr. Katherine Chen, Dr. Nathan Fox, Dr. Hank Schmidt, and Dr. Trevor Pour for being exceptional mentors and advocates that contributed to her growth personally and professionally.
Courtney will graduate with her MD degree with a Distinction in Research and will continue her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Johns Hopkins.