Dr. Sarah Jamison, an emergency medical physician at St. Barnabas Hospital (SBH) in the Bronx and a Yonkers resident, has been selected as a winner in “Essence” magazine”™s My Essential Heroes campaign.
The magazine readers nominated their essential heroes during the COVID-19 crisis by sharing their stories on social media. A vote was then held on the Essence website to select the Essential Heroes winners, who will be celebrated in a special ceremony on July 4.
According to the Essence website, “While serving in an impoverished, medically underserved community that has been severely affected by COVID-19, Dr. Jamison treated some of the most critically ill patients that the community has ever seen. While putting herself at risk for infection, she performed invasive procedures such as intubation to stabilize and support COVID-19 positive patients who were in respiratory failure.”
Jamison has worked at St. Barnabas Hospital since 2017 and is on the core faculty of its emergency medicine residency program. She is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine in Brooklyn and Spelman College in Atlanta, and competed her residency at the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Training Program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
According to Dr. Jeffrey Lazar, vice chairman and medical director of the emergency medicine department at SBH Health System, “Dr. Jamison”™s work during the Covid pandemic was nothing short of heroic; she was on-duty during the peak of the crisis and led our emergency department during her overnight shifts.”
