Medical Student Year 4
Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Ella Satish is a fourth-year, M.D., and Population Health MSc candidate and certified perinatal doula. She is a first-generation college and medical student interested in community-based health, as well as practices in Transformative Justice, prison, and police abolition. In 2019, Ella began working for Clínica Esperanza as a medical interpreter and as the Gynecology Clinic Health Education Coordinator. She has served in this role for the past four years and currently is working to expand the program to provide more comprehensive counseling on sexual health and reproductive health. She also hosts training and discussion spaces for free clinic volunteers that center a Transformative Justice framework for addressing harm and power dynamics in clinical scenarios. Ella’s undergraduate thesis was an exploration of the Cuban maternal healthcare system as a model for improving reproductive care for Black mothers in the United States. Her Master’s Thesis analyzes the relationship between prenatal care and cesarean section rates in RI. She has held various roles in the Providence community, including Program Coordinator at the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Unit of the RI Department of Health, and sex ed teacher at Calcutt Middle School in Central Falls. Ella will be applying into Family Medicine, with plans to complete an obstetrics fellowship following her residency.
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Centering Reproductive Justice: A multidisciplinary training curriculum on reflexive anti-racism
Monday, April 8, 2024
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM East Coast USA Time
Monday, April 8, 2024
11:35 AM - 11:40 AM East Coast USA Time