Dr. Sarah Jamison, an emergency medical physician at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx and a Yonkers resident, has been selected as a winner in Essence Magazine’s My Essential Heroes campaign The national magazine asked its readers to nominate their essential heroes during the COVID-19 crisis by sharing their stories on social media. A vote was then held on the magazine’s website to select the Essential Heroes winners, who will be celebrated in a special ceremony on July 4th.
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.”
“I feel very honored to have been nominated and selected as an Essential Hero,” said Dr. Jamison. “I was one of many doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and others at St. Barnabas and other hospitals in New York City and around the country who were simply doing our jobs during a very stressful and difficult time.”
Dr. 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. She competed her residency at the Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine Training Program of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. According to “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 ED during her overnight shifts,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lazar, SBH Health.
