Resilience in Community Care
In this special episode, Dr. Yasmin Meah, co-founder and director of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), sits down with Martina Lopez May, a dedicated medical student and practitioner at EHHOP. Together, they explore the unique challenges and rewards of providing compassionate, community-based healthcare in East Harlem, one of New York City's most underserved neighborhoods.
[00:00:00] Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host, Stephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting.
[00:00:11] On this episode of Road to Resilience, and in honor of National Health Center Week, we're joined by our guest host, Yasmin Meah, MD.
[00:00:19] Dr. Meah is an internal medicine doctor at Mount Sinai and serves as the director of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership.
[00:00:26] Known informally as the EHHOP, the partnership is a student run, physician-supervised free medical clinic for uninsured adults in East Harlem in Manhattan, and is housed within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
[00:00:38] Dr. Meah interviews Martina Lopez May, a medical student and active caregiver at the EHHOP.
[00:00:44] Together, Dr. Meah and Ms. May have helped build the EHHOP into an institution that has changed the lives of countless people in need.
[00:00:52] We're honored to welcome Ms. Lopez May and Dr. Meah to the show.
[00:00:59] Yasmin: So, welcome to a special edition of Road to Resilience. I'm Yasmin Meah, your host today.
[00:01:05] And I am a physician at Mount Sinai. I am in the Department of Internal Medicine. I am a house call physician and I also run the free clinic for the uninsured called EHHOP. And with me today is my student, and former co chair of the free clinic, Martina Lopez May.
[00:01:23] Martina: Hi. Yeah, like Dr. Meah said, I'm Martina. I'm a third year medical student, and during my second year, I worked as the second year co chair for EHHOP, where I ran a lot of the administrative tasks and kind of oversaw a lot of the clinic's operations. So we worked really close together the past year.
[00:01:42] Yasmin: Yeah. Martina was my right hand. And honestly, I was really just following her lead. So, it's really exciting to be here today. So, a little bit about EHHOP, which is also known as the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership.