Lauren Block, MD
Program Director

Lauren Block is Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at North Shore-LIJ and Professor in the Department of Medicine at Northwell Health. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed residency and fellowship as well as an MPH at Johns Hopkins. She joined Northwell in 2011 as course director in the medical school and became an Associate Program Director in the internal medicine residency in 2021. She developed and leads the Northwell General Internal Medicine Fellowship and IMPACcT, an interprofessional primary care training program. She is a clinician educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In this role she sees patients in primary care, precepts residents, and teaches medical students, residents, fellows, and interprofessional students. Her research interests include inter-professional education, the primary care workforce, and resident wellness.