Meredith Lynn
Meredith Lynn, MD
Attending Physician
NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Gouverneur
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Making Medicine More Human
Growing up in California with two sisters who were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when they were five and one, Dr. Meredith Lynn saw from an early age how managing chronic disease becomes intertwined with every aspect of daily life. But she also saw how it empowered her sisters with knowledge and self-reliance. It planted the seeds for her career.
As a primary care physician who leads the highly regarded HIV clinic at NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Gouverneur, Dr. Lynn has developed an approach that keeps patients engaged in their care and ensures that those who are struggling get the support they need. “I try to understand each patient’s life outside of the clinic to help guide their health,” she says. Her success is clear: For many years, Gouverneur has had the highest metrics for viral-load suppression of all HIV clinics in the health system and is among the top 5 in the region.
Since joining Gouverneur in 2016, Dr. Lynn has also worked to expand the center’s addiction medicine clinic, which she co-directs, and integrate sexual and reproductive health into her practice. In all these areas, says Gouverneur’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Morris Gagliardi, “Dr. Lynn is an advocate and mentor, a phenomenal teacher and preceptor who is admired by her patients, house staff and colleagues for the unflappable grace with which she meets every challenge.”
Dr. Lynn is proud to be part of a team that is committed to serving everyone who walks in the door and treating the whole patient in the context of their lives. “Making medicine more human and less mechanical improves not only the patient experience but their outcome,” she says. “I’ve always been drawn to the idea that understanding someone else’s story is the key to truly helping them.”