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Dr. Gomez is active throughout the medical school curriculum as a faculty facilitator in small group learning, Community and Population Health, and clinical skills. She works with pediatric clerkship students at the Clarke Middle Health Center.  She also participates in simulations, ultrasound training, interprofessional education, ethics training, and clinical assessments. She is passionate about trauma-informed care to both improve patient care and outcomes and clinician well-being. She is a student career advisor with a student-centric approach. She is happy to work with any medical student interested in careers in internal medicine, pediatrics, primary care, serving underserved and rural populations, and patient advocacy.  

While Dr. Gomez lived in a suburb of Albany, New York, she grew up visiting her extended family nearly every weekend in the NYC metropolitan area and in rural Vermont and Connecticut. She attended Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a first-generation college student. She went to Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, for her MD/PhD, then completed a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the Baylor Affiliated Hospitals (Baylor College of Medicine) in Houston, Texas. Prior to joining the School of Medicine, she held a variety of clinical, teaching, research, and administrative roles at the Bassett Healthcare Network in rural central New York, including establishing the nation’s first multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional clinician peer support program. She is active in multiple professional organizations, including the American Medical Women’s Association and a Well-Being Champion for the American College of Physicians.