Director of Research, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center
Horace W. Goldsmith Professor in Children’s Health Research, Department of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Wright received a Bachelor of Science in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and she obtained her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1989, graduating Cum Laude. Following medical school, Dr. Wright completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. She then moved to Chicago, Illinois to complete her residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University, where she also served as Chief Medical Resident. She then returned to Boston to complete fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harvard Medical School. As part of this training, Dr. Wright obtained a Master’s in Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1997, she joined the clinical faculty at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the research faculty at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where she remained on the faculty until she was recruited to The Mount Sinai Hospital as Vice Chair of Clinical & Translational Research in the Department of Pediatrics in August 2012.