search
Dr. Angel Rosario Jr., MD, MPH, is a General Surgery Resident at NewYork - Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center and the inaugural Surgical Equity Fellow at Columbia University’s General Surgery Program. He is also the co-founder of the Columbia University Chapter of Socially Responsible Surgery and the Columbia Chapter of the Health Career Collaborative, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering youth from historically marginalized communities to pursue careers in medicine.
Dr. Rosario recently completed the Surgical Education Leadership Fellowship (SELF) with the Association for Surgical Education in 2024, further refining his interest in advancing surgical education. His commitment to equity and justice drives his work, with a focus on eliminating health and surgical disparities through research, advocacy, and service. He is deeply invested in mentoring low-income QT and BIPOC students at various stages of their academic journeys and is passionate about advancing the Dominican diaspora.
His current research focuses on leveraging Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) practices to disaggregate the 'Hispanic' category, aiming to uncover the nuanced surgical needs and disparities within the Latiné community. Additionally, his research focuses on enhancing cultural dexterity among surgeons and developing innovative approaches to address surgery faculty and trainee burnout.
Dr. Rosario earned his undergraduate degree from SUNY: University at Bu^alo and spent six years as a Clinic Administrator at AltaMed Health Services in Los Angeles before obtaining his medical degree from UCSF School of Medicine. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership.
With a clinical interest in abdominal wall reconstructive surgery, Dr. Rosario aims to pursue this subspecialty with a focus on research and service to address both domestic and global surgical and health disparities.