Dr. Cherise Hamblin

Dr. Cherise Hamblin (she/her) is a full time, board certified OBGYN at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, and the founder and president of Patients R Waiting, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating health disparities by increasing diversity in medicine.

Dr. Hamblin is passionate about working with the next generation of physicians and has channeled this passion into her work with advisors, students, and community organizers on various mentoring and exposure programs. Through Patients R Waiting, these efforts are focused on increasing the pipeline of minority clinicians, making the pipeline of minority clinicians less leaky, and supporting minority clinicians in practice.