Our talented Alumni have been on the front lines during COVID-19. Read here to see what one Ross University alum has to say about the future and treatments.

Surviving Hurricane Maria and a semester at sea, Rida Jamal, MD’20, is well armed to share her perspective of life at Ross University School of Medicine to her graduating class in mid-May. “It is truly an honor. I feel like our journey is so unique – the hurricane, studying on a ship and then being thrust into rotations – it will be fun to retell.”

This Boston doctor team flew their young children to Texas, turned their living room into a research office and are picking up extra shifts to cover for their sick coworkers and console terminal COVID-19 patients. And now a month in, Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, MD, MS, and Brian Kendall, MD, both 2013 graduates from Ross University School of Medicine, still view their sacrifices and unwavering healthcare commitment as their medical calling.  

She’s a bubbly spitfire ready to begin her pathology research in southern Cali but before she steps into that role, she pauses to absorb the public health wakeup call. “This crisis is raising awareness and showing the power and importance of public health,” said Jessica Hudson, MD,

Born in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican mother and Cuban father and raised in Jersey City, NJ, Sarah Ines Ramirez, MD ’11, faced many challenges on her journey to becoming a physician – yet overcome them she did, and today she is doing everything she can to make the path she travelled easier for others to follow.

Born in Queens, NY, Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) alumna Bianca Rivera, MD ‘16, moved with her family to her parent’s native home of Puerto Rico when she was in the fifth grade. An avid scholar with a love for the sciences, Rivera didn’t decide to become a physician until college when a phone call caused her to rethink her plans for the future.

Ross University School of Medicine alumnus Israel Oloye, MD ’18, always knew he wanted to be a physician; however, he opted to follow a somewhat nontraditional route by becoming a nurse first. 

Every year, World Cancer Day aims to save millions of preventable deaths by raising awareness about cancer. Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) joins the global campaign to support the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and its continuing efforts to boost public health awareness and action against cancer.

A senior pediatric resident in Detroit, MI, Ericka Oliver, MD ’18, is thrilled to be in a position where she can be an example for, and mentor to, young girls who have dreams of becoming physicians – just as she had as a child.

Dr. Carmina Charles is a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti who immigrated to the United States when she was 3 years old. Her childhood was captivated by a plethora of culture, diversity, love and language from family and friends. Service was an integral part of her upbringing and she recalls deciding at a young age that she wanted to help others via the medical field and decided to pursue a career in medicine.