Undergrad: Harvard University
Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
Before attending Yale, Dr. Herrington graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in history and literature and a minor in Swahili. She received Highest Honors in her major and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Herrington’s undergraduate thesis won the John Clive Prize and the Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize, and she also earned the Ephraim Isaac Prize for Excellence in African Studies. She was also recognized as a John Harvard Scholar, awarded for graduating in the top 5% of her class.
At Yale, Dr. Herrington was a member of the Child Psychiatry Interest Group. She also conducted qualitative and quantitative research in psychiatry, publishing extensively on topics ranging from the mental health of displaced youth in Cameroon to clinicians' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. She received the Vernon W. Lippard, M.D., Student Summer Research Fellowship and Lowe Endowment funding for her work. She also authored a medical school thesis on psychopharmacological approaches to borderline personality disorder.
As a physician-writer, Dr. Herrington earned honorable mentions in the prose and poetry categories of the Marguerite Rush-Lerner Creative Writing and Art Contest. Her creative non-fiction has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal and Yale's literary journal, Murmurs.
Dr. Herrington is committed to partnering with students in their medical school application journeys. It is very important to her that students feel heard and not alone as they apply to medical school. She cares about providing thoughtful feedback and suggestions that build on their unique strengths.
Dr. Herrington has extensive experience assisting with personal statements and other written application materials. She has a particular gift for identifying and enhancing the most compelling aspects of an applicant’s story and writing style. She draws on her experience as an interviewer at Harvard University to guide students through the medical school interview process. She considers it an extraordinary gift to be a practicing physician and is eager to help aspiring physicians achieve their dreams.