Janine . Young
Denver Health
Janine Young, M.D., is a general pediatrician at Denver Health and Hospitals and an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of General Pediatrics. She was an undergraduate at Columbia University, received her medical training at Harvard Medical School, and pediatric residency training at the Boston Combined Program and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. Her career focus is health care and access to care for new immigrants and refugees and has presented talks nationally regarding the development of standard of care medical screening guidelines for these populations. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant and Refugee Toolkit screening guidelines and has consulted for the Office of Refugee Resettlement on medical screening of unaccompanied children. Currently, she is the Medical Director of the Denver Health Refugee Clinic and serves as the Medical Advisor for the State of Colorado Refugee Services Program. She is also a grantee working with the Minnesota Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control to develop a Refugee Centers of Excellence. She is a founding member of the newly-formed Denver Health Human Rights Clinic, a clinic established to provide medical and psychiatric forensics exams for immigrants applying for legal status and those in detention.
(09/18)
