Dr. Cara Taubman is an Emergency Physician at Harlem Hospital where she is the Assistant Director for the Emergency Department, Clinical Director of Emergency Management for the hospital and Assistant Program Director for the Met-Harlem Emergency Medicine residency. She graduated from New York Medical College with an MD and MPH and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers where she served as Chief Resident. During residency she received Leo M. Davidoff society’s Award for Medical Student Education and Emergency Physician of the year. After residency she went on to a Global Emergency Medicine fellowship at Columbia University where she worked with the Ministries of Health in both Ghana and Rwanda and for Doctors Without Borders.