Nathan Irvin, MD
Dr. Irvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Medical Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree at Harvard in 2003. Following medical school, he completed a residency in emergency medicine at Alameda Health System’s Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, where he was a chief resident, prior to graduating in 2011. He subsequently completed a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 2013 with a master's degree in health policy research.
Dr. Nathan Irvin is a clinician-educator and researcher committed to improving the health of vulnerable populations including economically disadvantaged persons and racial/ethnic minorities that disproportionately receive care in emergency departments. Dr. Irvin’s scholarly work addresses many of the health and behavioral problems that affect people living in urban communities including violence, trauma, HIV/AIDs and substance abuse and often involves incorporating novel approaches including the use of humanities-based disciplines to affect change. He is the director of the 4th year social emergency medicine Focused Advanced Specialty Training (FAST) where he mentors senior level projects on projects focused on addressing the social and structural barriers to patients maximizing their health. Additionally, Dr. Irvin is also the Co-Director of the Center for Health and Humanities at Hopkins emergency medicine (H3EM) and in this capacity, seeks to equip learners with the tools to understand and address the human experiences of health and illness, to see their patients as individuals in the context of larger social perspectives using humanities-based techniques. He also co-directs a pathway program called Generation Tomorrow’s Health Disparities Scholars focused on providing research experiences and mentorship for students from underrepresented backgrounds in medicine.
