Dr. Ernest J. Barthélemy, MD, MA, MPH

Dr. Ernest J. Barthélemy is a neurosurgeon, global health scientist, and Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. A Haitian-American native of New York City, Dr. Barthélemy completed his medical education and neurosurgery residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and subsequently completed post-residency fellowships in both clinical neurotrauma and in health equity at the University of California, San Francisco. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow at Harvard University, where he also obtained a Master of Public Health degree with concentrations in Global Health and Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Barthélemy is the founding president of the Society of Haitian Neuroscientists, a growing Haitian Diaspora organization with over 100 members in six countries that aims to advance neurological care and mental health in all Haitian communities. He also sits on the Global Health Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy, and is 2021-2023 Co-Chair of the Young Neurosurgeons Forum of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.