Dr. Laurel Gabler

Biography

Laurel Gabler, MD, DPhil, MSc, is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, specializing in Pediatrics. She is dedicated to improving pediatric emergency care in underserved communities. Laurel graduated with a BA in Psychology from Stanford University, where she had the opportunity to work in Ecuador assisting a pediatrician with a malnutrition program. After Stanford, she worked as an HIV educator in Tanzania with an NGO called Support International Change. Laurel received the Luce Scholarship and spent a year in rural Thailand learning about traditional medicine and working on a farm that grew medicinal plants. She obtained her MD from Harvard Medical School and earned her MSc in Global Health Science and DPhil in Public Health from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research centers on health-seeking behaviors and health service delivery, particularly in rural Nepal, where she lived for two and a half years on a Fulbright fellowship. Laurel has continued her global health work during her medical training at Harvard, helping community health workers in rural India devise empowerment projects. She completed her residency at CHOP and returned to Tanzania annually to teach local interns. Laurel worked as a Pediatrician in the Emergency Department at CHOP and began her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She aims to work at the intersection of public health, clinical medicine, and health education globally and domestically.

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