Jennifer Salcedo, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P., FACOG, was recently named designated institutional official (DIO) at New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla. In her new role, she will maintain the institutional graduate medical education accreditation of the School of Medicine (SOM) by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as well as the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), which includes overseeing 20 ACGME-accredited graduate medical education (GME) programs sponsored by the SOM and two CODA-accredited graduate dental programs.
Salcedo comes to NYMC from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), where she was associate professor and residency program director in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. While at UTRGV, she worked with colleagues to develop the new residency program and started an innovative border health track to address community needs in women”™s health. She received her medical degree and Master of Public Health degree at Northwestern University, completed residency training at the University of California, Irvine, and received a Master of Public Policy degree from UCLA”™s Luskin School of Public Affairs. Following the completion of her fellowship in complex family planning, she served on the faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai”™i at MÄnoa, where she was an associate program director and director of the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning and held adjunct faculty appointments in the Office of Public Health Studies and the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
She is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and holds a focused practice designation in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.
