Dr. Elnajjar graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Ain Shams University in 2010 following she finished a combined psychiatry-neurology training and earned a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree form School of medicine at Ain Shams University She received her M.D. in 2009 at Ain Shams University, Cairo. Dr. Elnajjar completed residency training in psychiatry at New York Medical College. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in 2019, and completed her Child Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship in 2021 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. While at New York Medical College she was awarded Teaching Excellence prize for education efforts with medical students at psychiatry department. In 2019, She was named a Diversity Leadership Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and received first research grant at Junior Research Colloquium 2020. Dr. Elnajjar was nominated by her supervisor for the Resident Recognition Award by the Association of Family Psychiatrists in 2021 for Excellence in Family-Oriented Care.
