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Education

Brown University, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Experience

Dr. Ennis is a board-certified emergency physician based in western Massachusetts. She is the medical staff president and associate chief of emergency medicine at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.

Dr. Ennis writing has been featured in The Washington Post and she has appeared on various panels and podcasts. She enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her daughters, friends, cats, and backyard chickens.

Education

Dr. Ennis studied medical anthropology at Brown University, before earning her doctor of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and her master of public health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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