Dr. Raquel Reyes is a hospitalist and clinician educator with a particular commitment to addressing disparities in health in resource-poor settings. She completed her combined residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in June 2012. Following residency, she lived in Uganda where she served as the first Site Director for MGH’s Global Medicine Residency.
Dr. Reyes earned a BA in English from Harvard College, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She has served as a Volunteer In Service To America, advocating for access to health care for refugees and migrant farm workers in rural California. She has policy experience in Geneva and Washington, D.C and clinical experience in Ethiopia, Liberia, and Uganda. Her early public health work included studies of maternal health in Afghanistan and rural Mali.
Dr. Reyes currently serves as a hospitalist and clinician educator on the internal medicine wards, seminar facilitator for medical students, global health mentor for residents and medical students, and Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program. She continues to contribute to research around malaria, using village health workers to expand access to care, and models of primary care in rural Uganda, and has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications of this work. In 2018, she and her colleagues co-founded an NGO focused on rural health in Uganda.
Dr. Reyes’s ambition is to use her formal training in public policy, public health, and clinical medicine to improve clinical care and education programs, as well as the health and well-being of underserved populations, both at home and abroad.
