She is an attending neonatologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and University Hospital in Aurora, CO. She was born in South Korea, immigrated to NYC at the age of 6, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Hwang obtained her BA in English Literature at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She worked as an editoral assistant in book publishing for a year before heading to medical school at the State University of New York Downstate. She completed her residency in pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. She then moved to Boston for a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital. She obtained her MPH from the Harvard School of Public health with a concentration in maternal and child health. Dr. Hwang is also currently in her 2nd year of the Health Services Research PhD program at the Colorado School of Public Health.