New Mexico School of Medicine

Dr. Finn is dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the largest teaching hospital in New Mexico. She completed medical school and residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a pulmonary fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Previously, Dr. Finn was a physician and investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). 

Dr. Finn’s career has been motivated by a commitment to serving others. She credits this dedication to her upbringing as the child of hardworking Irish immigrants from counties Roscommon and Sligo. Dr. Finn grew up in Alphabet City, a poor, working-class neighborhood in lower Manhattan, which, by the 1970s and 1980s, suffered from high levels of neglect. This upbringing helped shape Dr. Finn’s path to becoming a physician-scientist focused on immune-mediated pulmonary diseases, including sarcoidosis and asthma.

Currently, Dr. Finn proudly shares Irish citizenship with her daughter and joyfully celebrates St. Patrick’s Day as the anniversary of her first date with her husband.