“When I was 4 years old, my grandfather told me that I was good in science, and I was going to become a doctor,” she recalls. Her mother is a pediatrician, who at 87 years old still practices part time, and her grandfather, who grew up in Guyana, was a dentist in Harlem. Her inspiration to become a physician came from family. I wanted to be part of the change rather than just sit there and say, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’”
#JEANINE DOWNIE MD MONTCLAIR NJ SKIN#
“This was in the early 2000s, and it was a thing to not include skin of color in clinical trials. “I wanted to do clinical trials in my practice because I could enroll my own subjects, and I wanted to be part of the conversation of why there were not enough African-Americans nor Latino Americans involved in clinical trials,” she says. Downie gained public notoriety through TV appearances on programs including “The View” and “The Today Show” and is well known in the field of cosmetic dermatology with more than 80 published papers and a speaking career that has taken her around the globe. There is a Latin saying, “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam” (“I shall either find a way or make one”) that could serve as Jeanine Downie, MD’s career slogan.Ī New Jersey Top Doc for 17 consecutive years, lecturer, author, founder of Image Dermatology and self-professed “complete and utter control freak,” Dr.
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