Meet 2026 Award Recipient
Regina Longley
Regina came to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from Cornell University, where she was a Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellow, majored in Spanish, and received the JG White Spanish Prize. Prior to attending Icahn Mount Sinai, Regina worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She entered the MD/MPH program in August 2021 as one of two Global Health Scholars in her class, receiving a fully funded MPH and scholarly year.
While at Icahn Mount Sinai, Regina was deeply involved in the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP), the student-run, physician-supervised free clinic, first as an Access to Care Team Case Manager, and then as the Chair of Case Management, Senior Clinician, and Teaching Senior. She contributed to research across maternal health, kidney and liver transplantation, and health equity. She has also served as a member of the Mount Sinai Ethics Committee and worked as a perfusionist on the Normothermic Machine Perfusion ("Pump") Team at the Recanati Miller Transplant Institute.
Regina completed her scholarly year under the mentorship of Dr. Dinushika Mohottige in the Institute for Health Equity Research, focusing her work on equity in cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic care. She has presented her work at national conferences and authored several peer-reviewed publications. She was elected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2025.
Regina is deeply grateful to her peers and the faculty at Mount Sinai for their support, camaraderie, mentorship, and wonderful example in providing compassionate, high-quality care for all patients. She extends her heartfelt thanks to her family and friends who have been by her side throughout this journey and helped make this lifelong dream of becoming a physician a reality.
Regina will graduate with her MD and MPH degrees and continue her Internal Medicine residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.