Adaira Landry, MD, MEd

Adaira Landry, MD MEd is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She is a former Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Program and current Academic Society Associate Director and Advisor for the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Landry is the Co-Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee within the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice. She is an advisor for Academic Life in Emergency Medicine, a leading medical education online resource. She is currently co-authoring a book with HarperCollins titled MicroSkills, which delivers strategic and concrete skills to navigate the workplace.

Dr. Landry attended college at University of California, Berkeley to study Molecular Cell Biology and African American Studies. She completed her medical school training at David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles in 2011, her Emergency Medicine Residency at New York University as Chief Resident in 2015, and a combined fellowship in Ultrasound at the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a master’s degree in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education program in 2017. Her academic interests focus on mentorship of underrepresented students and trainees. In 2020 she was awarded the Massachusetts General Brigham Outstanding Mentor Award and the EMRA Mentor of the Year Award for her dedication to mentorship. In addition, she speaks nationally on strategies to optimize mentor-mentee relationships and has recently spoken at the Student National Medical Association as well as the American Women’s Medical Association. She has completed the Women’s Leadership Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has published in NEJM, Academic Medicine, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, CNBC, and Women's Health Magazine. She is also a wife and a mother to 3 children. She hopes to raise her 3 children to understand and value the importance of supporting others in need.