Daniela Rizzo is a board-certified psychiatrist, integrative medicine specialist, and longevity physician affiliated with Mount Sinai and Good Samaritan / Bon Secour Westchester Medical Center. Born in Brazil and trained at Universidade São Francisco, she completed her psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai and holds dual board certifications through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Academy of Procedural Medicine. She is currently completing a fellowship in longevity medicine.
Dr. Rizzo is the founder of a concierge private practice in Manhattan offering psychiatry, hormone optimization, IV nutrient therapy, and aesthetic medicine, a model she built after navigating the high volume, under-resourced realities of academic medicine. She is also a vocal advocate for international medical graduates and physicians who have faced workplace discrimination.
She is the author of The Thriving Practice and the forthcoming The Longevity Kitchen. Her writing and speaking focus on medicine, resilience, and physician entrepreneurship, including her KevinMD essay on workplace retaliation. She shares more at her website and on LinkedIn.
I am sharing my experience of what I believe to be retaliation and the non-renewal of my contract at a major academic medical center in New York following my refusal to engage with inappropriate advances. As an international medical graduate who immigrated to the U.S. from Brazil at the age of three, I have devoted my life to medicine and patient care. Throughout my career, I have worked across multiple …
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How an international medical graduate fought workplace retaliation
