Dr. Yadiera M. Brown is a top family medicine physician in New York who brings to Atria a passion for preventive and comprehensive care that’s tailored to each of her individual patients. “We are each our own puzzle,” says Dr. Brown.
A board-certified family medicine physician, Dr. Brown is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and was most recently a Family Medicine Associate at Caremount Medical / Murray Hill Medical Group PC. Dr. Brown has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor and a Top Doctors New York Metro Area every year since 2017, and was listed as a New York Magazine Top Doctor in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Dr. Brown loves practicing medicine at Atria because, in her words: “I have a truly pure desire to focus on the health and wellness of my patients, unencumbered by the incentives that exist in traditional health care models.”
Dr. Brown graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and later earned her medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York.
After graduating with her MD, she completed an internship in general medicine at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan followed by a residency program in family and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
Following the completion of her residency training, Dr. Brown spent four years working at the Midtown Health Center in Manhattan as an attending physician. In that role, Dr. Brown engaged in direct patient care for people of all ages, from children and adolescents to adults and geriatric patients. She was also Supervisor and then Attending Physician at the center’s weekly Women’s Health clinic, where she performed cancer and cardiovascular screening, provided counseling in sexual health, and offered guidance on preventive lifestyle choices, including nutrition, exercise, drug and alcohol use, and more.
Dr. Brown then became a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and transitioned to Murray Hill Medical Group PC / CareMount Medical as a Family Medicine Associate, where she spent more than a decade providing her broad-scoped patient care to people of all ages.
A lifelong New Yorker, Dr. Brown loves taking a whole-person approach to practicing medicine in the city where she was born and raised.
Credentials
- Clinical InstructorDepartment of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
- Affiliated PhysicianNYU Langone Medical Center
- Former Family Medicine AssociateCareMount Medical / Murray Hill Medical Group PC
- Former Attending PhysicianMidtown Health Center
- Former SupervisorFamily Medicine-GYN Cervical Cancer Screening & Women's Health Clinic, Midtown Health Center
Awards
- Best Doctors 2021-2023New York Magazine
- Top Doctors 2017-2023Castle Connolly
- Top Doctors 2017-2022New York Metro Area (digital guide)
- New York Medical College Academic Trustee Scholarship
- Martin Luther King Jr. ScholarNew York University
Affiliations
- MemberAmerican Academy of Family Physicians
- DiplomateAmerican Board of Family Medicine