Alumni

Where are they now?

Uché A. Blackstock, M.D. and her twin sister, Oni, were born on November 4, 1977 in New York City to Mr. Earl and Dr. Dale Blackstock. Uché and Oni were raised by their parents in the Crow Hill section of Brooklyn and received their educational foundation at St. Mark’s Day School, where they attended school from pre-kindergarten to the 6^th grade. Uché subsequently attended and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1995. At Harvard College, she majored in Biology and completed her pre-medical courses, graduating with Honors in 1999. After graduating from college, Uché moved to Chicago where she taught one year of high school biology and chemistry to 9^th and 10^th graders, respectively. During her second year out of college, Uché returned to the Boston area to pursue her interest in health policy by working on legislative reform issues at a health care advocacy group. In the fall of 2001, Uché started her first year of medical school at Harvard Medical School and she graduated in June 2005. This week, Uché completed the first year of a four-year Emergency Medicine residency program at Kings County Hospital Center/SUNY Downstate. She is excited and honored to have this opportunity to return to her alma mater to co-host today’s auspicious ceremonies.

Oni Jahi Blackstock is a native of Brooklyn and a proud alumnus of St Mark’s Day School.  Her love of math and science took her to Stuyvesant High School and next to Harvard College where she majored in Computer Science while also completing her pre-med coursework. At Harvard College, she served as president of the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers. After a year-long teaching internship, Oni entered Harvard Medical School where her interest in women’s health and HIV/AIDS care burgeoned. She traveled to South Africa and Ghana to research the impact of HIV/AIDS on sub-Saharan Africa.  During medical school, she held the position of co-director of Girl Power, a community outreach program with a mission to expose at-risk adolescent females to the sciences. Oni has just completed her intern year in the Primary Care-Internal Medicine residency program at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Upon graduating from residency, she plans to work in a primary care clinic and engage in advocacy work to empower marginalized communities.