Interviewer(s): Lauran-Kerr Heraly

Project: University of Houston

Dr. Tricia Elliott was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was eight. Following high school, she went to medical school at UTMB in Galveston where she decided to go into family medicine. Dr. Elliott did her residency and internship at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx and following her three years stayed on as a physician and faculty member. She moved back to Houston in 2002, and at the time of the interview served as the program director for the residency program at the Baylor College of Medicine/Kelsey-Seybold Clinic. Throughout the interview, Dr. Elliott talks about her career path, experiences as an African American woman in medicine, and organizations that she is involved in.