Connie Baum Newman is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist specializing in hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders, women's rights, and access to reproductive healthcare. She is an adjunct professor of medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Newman was president of the American Medical Women's Association from 2019 to 2020.

Life

Connie Joy Baum was born to homemaker Ethel Stuhlbach and pediatrician Samuel Baum in Passaic, New Jersey. Her family is Jewish. Newman's three siblings are all physicians. In 1970, she graduated as the

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of Passaic High School. Newman completed a B.A. in biology and Spanish from

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in 1974 where she was a member of

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. On August 7, 1977, she married lawyer Jay Hartley Newman. Rabbi Leon Katz performed the ceremony in Livingston, New Jersey. Newman earned an M.D. from Weill Cornell Medicine in 1978. At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she conducted an internal medicine internship from 1978 to 1979 and a residency from 1979 to 1981. Newman was a fellow in endocrinology and diabetes at the

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from 1981 to 1984 and a fellow in endocrinology in endocrinology at the New York University Medical Center from 1984 to 1985. Newman is an endocrinologist and physician-scientist specializing in hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders, women's rights, and access to reproductive healthcare. Since September 2007, she has served as a consultant attending physician with the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. Newman is also, since February 2016, an adjunct professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Newman was the president of the American Medical Women's Association from 2019 to 2020.

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References

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