Dr. St. Surin-Lord is a native of New York City. Her undergraduate degree was earned at Howard University in Washington D.C., where she majored in Clinical Laboratory Science. Her medical degree was received from Howard University as well.

After graduating from college, Dr. St. Surin-Lord’s career has taken her into the area of vaccine technology and manufacturing, as well as pharmaceutical sales. She worked for Merck and Co., Inc., and as a Research Fellow for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) while in medical school. Before graduating medical school in 2004, she also served as a Research Scholar at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Following medical school, Dr. St. Surin-Lord completed an internal medicine internship at Albert Einstein at Montefiore, Bronx, NY, as well as a residency in dermatology at Howard University.