Director of Alumni Engagement
The daughter of Grenadian immigrants, Dr. Arthur was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Brown University before earning her medical degree at Yale. She then completed her internship at St. Vincent's Medical Center in New York City, her residency in the Department of Ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and her fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.
Dr. Arthur is currently the owner of the private practice, Park Slope Eye Care Associates, in Brooklyn, New York and performs surgical procedures at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.
In addition to volunteering as a teacher and physician in the United States and abroad, she has established and acted as the founding board member for multiple student scholarships, co-chaired diversity and community engagement committees, served on the NYS Board for Professional Medical Conduct and held the role of PTA president for PS 11 in Brooklyn. Her passion is working at the intersection of healthcare, advocacy, equity, education, philanthropy and community building.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - NIH Research Scholars Program 1989-1990
Topic: “Use of the Polymerase Chain Reaction to Amplify Putative Uveitogenic DNA fragments of Rat IRBP”
Preceptor: Dr. John Nickerson, National Eye Institute
National Eye Institute Summer Research Fellow - 1988
Topic: “Quantitation of Zeta-Crystalline in Lens and Liver of South American Guinea Pigs Homozygous and Heterozygous for Congenital Cataracts”
Preceptor: Dr. Paul Russell, National Eye Institute
Commonwealth Fund Medical Research Fellow - 1987
MD Thesis Topic: “Analysis of Fetal Hemoglobin Gene Expression in Kuwaitis with Mild Sickle Cell Disease”
Preceptor: Dr. Edward Benz, Jr.,Yale University School of Medicine
Cornell Summer Research Fellowship Program - 1984
Topic: “The Effects of Glyceraldehyde on the Density Distribution and Survival Rates of Sickle Erythrocytes”
Preceptor: Dr. Lennette J. Benjamin, Rockefeller University
Premedical Research and Educational Program (PREP) 1979-1981