About Me

My name is Nealie Ngo, and I am a psychiatrist (PGY-1) at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School.

 

I graduated from the University of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences in 2023 and Yale University in 2018 with a BA in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. During medical school, I took a gap year to pursue a MPH at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where I created my own degree focusing on Graphic Medicine, health education, and health communications.

 

As the daughter of an artist, I grew up constantly surrounded by my mother’s collection of watercolor palettes and brushes, and I would spend countless hours watching her paint until I fell asleep. Art has always been a part of everything I do, from high school to college and now to graduate school. Art helps me to not only de-stress and reawaken my creative side, but also serves as a way for me to connect to deeper levels of patient care.

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Art has always been my side hobby, but I am determined to allow art to share the same main stage that medicine will in my career as a physician. I am extremely interested in the field of Graphic Medicine—which bridges art, medicine, and public health through comics and graphic novels—and in creating individual pieces of art that speak to issues in medicine. I have specific interests in child & adolescent psychiatry, college mental health, psychotherapy, and cultural psychiatry. 

 

I hope to further explore the relationship between art, medicine, and public health, and I hope to continue merging the medical humanities, medicine, and public health throughout the rest of my life and career.

Art by Nealie Ngo, MD, MPH

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