Dr. Gordana Rasic

Dr. Gordana Rasic is a general surgery resident physician at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) affiliated with Boston Medical Center. She has completed two years of clinical training, and is now enrolled in a two-year post-doctoral research fellowship at BUSM where she evaluates the utility of circulating tumor DNA in post-operative surveillance of solid tumors, specifically head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Ultimately, she aspires to pursue surgical oncology fellowship training where she can integrate her knowledge of circulating tumor DNA to her future research and clinical endeavors. 

In addition to her translational research, Dr. Rasic is invested in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of surgical residency programs in the United States. In 2020, she was accepted into the #HeForShe Committee for the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS) where she served as co-director of the AWS Cross-Mentorship Workshop Series. Her work within the committee has focused on defining cross-mentorship and assessing the challenges encountered when mentoring across identity differences within surgical training, specifically when mentoring trainees of underrepresented racial and ethnic identities as well as of the LGBTQIA+ community. This year, she serves as the co-leader of the AWS Cross-Mentorship Curriculum. As a result of her work, Dr. Rasic has been accepted into the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Taskforce of the Association for Surgical Education. In addition, she has been invited to serve as an ad-hoc member of the DEI Committee for the Association of Program Directors in Surgery. 

As her career continues, Dr. Rasic aspires to delineate the integration of circulating tumor DNA testing into current surgical oncology practices while simultaneously striving to cultivate an inclusive and equitable training environment within surgery.