She is on the clinical staff of the Department of Medicine and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the International Medical and Surgical Response Team East for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has worked on projects for academic institutions, FEMA, and non-governmental organizations in Haiti, Liberia, Chad, Belize, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guam, and Micronesia. She also serves on the Massachusetts General Hospital Ethics Committee and as an evaluator for asylum seekers with Physicians for Human Rights. Lynn holds a BS in Nursing from the University of Vermont, an MD/MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Cornell New York Hospital.