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The Journey Matters Series is back!

Join us for The Journey Matters! This series allows you an opportunity to learn about a featured alumni's path in order to inform your own journey. We're excited to welcome NMF alumna Dr. Gianna Ramos to this discussion.

Our Speaker

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Gianna Ramos, M.D., M.S.W., M.P.H., is currently a chief surgical resident at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon. While in residency, she completed a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship in NYC as part of the Columbia/Cornell Bi-Campus Fellowship program. Recently she matched into Surgical Critical Care at Harbor-UCLA, where she will become a trauma surgeon.

She is originally from Paterson, New Jersey, but grew up in Southern Oregon. Her upbringing shaped her desire to give back to underserved communities, like the ones that raised her. As a result, her career has been tailored to working with and learning from those communities to provide improved health care access; understanding the complexity of health care disparities; and obtaining additional skill sets that will allow her to provide empathic, thoughtful, trauma-informed care.

In medical school, Gianna was a part of UCLA PRIME, a dual degree program focused on leadership in underserved communities to improve delivery of medical care to those communities. As such, she spent two years at University of Southern California obtaining an MSW/MPH in community advocacy and health policy to focus on population-based health interventions and social determinants of health.

Her interests include ways to improve health care disparities, access to surgical palliative care, palliative care education of surgical trainees, violence prevention and harm reduction in trauma patients.