MD
At-Large Board Member
Migrant Clinicians Network
Paula Latortue Albino, MD is a Haitian-Puerto Rican physician who grew up between Puerto Rico and Haiti. She completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. As a medical student, she was honored as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Societies. She completed her residency training at Boston Medical Center, an academic safety-net hospital in the greater Boston Area. Prior to her post-graduate training, she worked in the non-profit sector and served for six years on the Board of Directors of Mentes Puertorriqueñas en Acción, a non-profit organization that supports youth leadership development in Puerto Rico. Upon completing residency, Dr Latortue joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine, training medical students and residents, and providing full spectrum obstetrics and gynecologic care in a tertiary care, safety-net hospital and a federally qualified health care center. In 2023, she joined the committee organizing the first Haitian Health Conference, which successfully brought together providers serving the Haitian-American and US-based Haitian community in Boston to discuss health care challenges. She is a faculty member at George Washington University in Washington, DC.