Stefanie Gillson, MD

Stefanie Gillson, MD, MHS is an instructor in the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine. She is an Institute Scholar and a CIRCLE Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health where she focuses on community-based initiatives to address mental health and substance use disparities among Indigenous youth through a historical and contemporary lens. She is a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians where she actively recruits Indigenous youth into the medical field. Aside from her work with Native communities, she is a co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale. Dr. Gillson graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth campus where her education was focused on rural and Indigenous health. She is currently a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) K12-sponsored Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research (DAHRS) Scholar.