Welcome! My name is Edith Bracho-Sanchez, I’m a first time mom and a pediatrician at Columbia University in New York City. Before I show you my work in the pages that follow, I’d like to tell you a little bit about myself. 

I was born and raised just outside of Caracas, Venezuela, before unrest, corruption and economic collapse changed the country. My parents, in search of opportunities for myself and my two younger siblings, brought us to the United States in 2002. Later in 2006, due to complicated immigration law- the details of which I will spare you- we were forced to return to Venezuela. In 2008, thanks to my parents’ ingenuity and brilliance, we came back and have called the United States home since. 

As I made my way through college, medical school, residency and fellowship, I often alternated between feeling blessed to be training in the country’s most prestigious institutions, and like a total outsider, to be found out at any moment. 

Today I know I belong: I have the job I dreamed of all those long nights in training-- I care for immigrant children and their families in the greatest city in the world.

It is also here in New York that I met my husband Chris and recently welcomed our first baby William. Being a mom is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and yet I look at William and I know I was put on this earth to be his mom.

As you will see in the pages that follow, my idea of “doctoring” extends far beyond the office. Welcome and thank you for following my journey.