Joshua Ellis, MD

Joshua Ellis, MD

Medical Education Fellow

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Joshua Ellis is the current medical education fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency where he is also expected to complete his master’s in public health at Harvard University. He is from Texas where he attended the University of Houston, finishing with a B.A. in history. He was the University’s sole Dean’s Award Recipient and also awarded the Outstanding Senior Service Award by the Honors College. He then attended The Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC, finishing his MD in 2016 after serving as the class Vice President. He finished his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. During residency he served as the Resident Medical Student Clerkship Director and also the Emergency Medicine Interest Group Resident Liaison. He was awarded the Mayo Clinic Golden Stethoscope Resident Educator of the Year Award, awarded to just 4 out of 1793 residents and also awarded the Mayo Clinic Gold Humanism Award, also given to just 4 out of 1793 residents. He was the only one to win both awards. He is a proud member of the LGBT community and also proud of his biracial Mexican American and African American heritage. He is the first in his family to go off for college and the first to start and finish a graduate degree. He attributes this to his passion in undergraduate level education, the advancement of diversity in medical education, and health equity.