General Surgery
MD, MPH, General Surgery Resident and Inaugural Surgical Equity Fellow, Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian; Co-founder, Columbia University Chapter of Socially Responsible Surgery and Columbia Surgery Health Career Collaborative, USA
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.
Selected publications from PubMed
Mechanisms of Chain Scission under High Strain Rate Sonication in PS-PIB-PS Triblock Copolymers.
Vagholkar PK, Rosario AJ, Searles JF, Kemp LK, Simon YC, Storey RF, Ma B, Wedgeworth DN, Thornell T, Morgan SE
ACS Appl Polym Mater. 2026 Aug 28;8(16):14086-14099 doi: 10.1021/acsapm.6c02287.
Metabolomic profiling reveals distinct and shared biology in COPD and IPF.
Rosario A, Prince N, Madha-Krause S, Lutz SM, Hecker JE, Yun JH, Cho MH, Halu A, Washko GR, Sciurba FC, Barwick L, Limper AH, Flaherty KR, Criner GJ, Brown KK, Wise R, Martinez FJ, Bowler RP, Gerszten RE, Clish CB, Silverman EK, Kelly RS
Metabolomics. 2026 Aug 22;22(5) doi: 10.1007/s11306-026-02508-3.
Workplace Violence Experiences Among Nurse Educators in Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.
Salvador JT, Almahmoud SA, Al-Dossary RNM, Al-Anazi BMM, Alqahtani FM, Al-Otaibi A, Ramzi OI, Kamel NM, Aldhafeeri FL, Trinidad MA, Rosario AB, Ibrahim AM, Cabonce SG, Agman DD, Alfaraj EA
Nurs Open. 2026 Aug;13(8):e70769 doi: 10.1002/nop2.70769.
Structural Determinants of Discharge following Craniotomy for Brain Cancer in New York City: A Cross-Sectional Study Disparities in Post-Craniotomy Recovery in New York City.
Ononogbu-Uche FC, Wroblewski TH, Berglas E, Leskinen S, Del Rosario A, Calixte RME, Higgins D, Barthélemy EJ
Neuroepidemiology. 2026 Jul 29;:1-12 doi: 10.1159/000552920.
Visceral leishmaniasis in a peri-urban area of São Paulo associated with Nyssomyia whitmani.
Rosário AAD, Campos KA, Maia GB, Abuassi MLB, Salvador G, Piateli C, Laurenti MD, Matta VLRD, Flores GA, Hiramoto RM, Tolezano JE, Ovallos FG
Rev Saude Publica. 2026;60:e32 doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2026060007326.
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