Roxana Wiswell » PGY-2

Biographical Info

Roxana hails from Cupertino, CA and attended UCSD for undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology. She has experience volunteering in Middle East refugee camps and investigating health needs of refugees in Amman, Jordan. Her research background also includes bench work in methylation and epigenetics in Alzheimer’s disease. She speaks Spanish fluently and spent five weeks in Guatemala working with a Mayan population in an underserved area. While in medical school at Boston University, she volunteered at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, and plans to continue working with vulnerable patient populations. Roxana is an AOA inductee and graduate Magna Cum Laude, and her career interests include med-peds hospitalist work. She is moving to Chicago accompanied by her dog Riley, who will be a welcomed addition to the med-peds family.