Jada Simone McMahon, MD

Hi! I’m Jada. I was born and raised in New York by my father, mother, older brother and sister. We shared a lively home in the suburbs of Nassau County. Black history was an integral part of our household, so I decided to minor in Africana Studies along with my Biology major at SUNY Binghamton. After my mother passed away from breast cancer in 2008, I developed a fascination with not only her medical condition but understanding Black womanhood and her life experiences that resonated with my own. As I explored the psychology of race in my undergraduate courses, I applied to medical school with the intent to focus my work on community healing within whichever specialty I pursued. I attended SUNY Upstate and was awarded the Sarah Loguen Fraser Dean’s Distinction Award given to an incoming African American woman based on academic achievement and commitment to serving underserved communities. Through medical school I’ve had the honor of tutoring refugee youth, providing mental health support to adolescent mothers, and participating in other outreach opportunities in the community. I’ve also conducted Bioethics research with Dr. Rachel Fabi creating a database of fictional pieces (books, short stories, poetry, etc) to be used to teach students about community health. I was inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) and the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor society and served as the co-chair of diversity and inclusion for AOA. I’m also a proud alumna of our Student National Medical Association chapter, of which I served as president. My interests in psychiatry include community psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy, LGBTQ + care, and correctional psychiatry particularly for incarcerated youth. My hobbies outside of medicine include reading blues literature, singing, romantic comedies and buying more skin products than I need to.