MD-PhD Student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ruthly is an MD/PhD student at the UNC School of Medicine pursuing a PhD in Epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She earned her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Mathematics from Suffolk University and her M.S.P.H. in International Health (Global Disease Epidemiology and Control) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her early research focused on the molecular epidemiology of pediatric enteric infections in low- and middle-income countries. While her doctoral research focuses on malaria molecular epidemiology in the Democratic Republic of Congo under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Parr, her Obstetrics and Gynecology clinical rotation sparked a strong interest in that specialty. She is currently working with Dr. Elizabeth Stringer, applying her training in epidemiologic methods to clinically relevant questions in perinatal outcomes research. She will present a project titled “Isolated Small Abdominal Circumference and Timing of Delivery: Prognostic Implications for Perinatal Outcomes.”