Mary Howard Holderness, MD

Mary has investigated the therapeutic benefit of virtual reality exposure therapy for patients with post-traumatic stress symptoms after hospitalization in the ICU. She also performed a needs assessment to address difficulties associated with cardiac arrest survivorship. She worked with a process innovation team over nine months to design a patient admission process for a hospital-at-home program. She participated in a longitudinal curated curriculum of medical ethics, philosophy, and humanities for M1 and M4 Columbia medical students. She is an artist and potter and has contributed work to the student-run art and literary journal several teaching and mentoring roles while in medical school. She enjoys fitness and the outdoors, the arts, crosswords, and foreign languages.

Undergrad: Yale University

Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons