Antía Itzel Gómez, PhD

Antía Itzel Gómez is currently a second-year medical student at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She holds a BA in Spanish from Pomona College and a PhD in literature from New York University, where she wrote a dissertation on alcoholism, diabetes, and narco-trafficking in Mexican and Chicana cultural production. Antía’s interest in becoming a physician emerged from her personal experiences as a transgender Latina. As a transgender woman of color with access to the science and practice of medicine, she hopes to provide culturally humble patient education, preventative medicine, and disease treatment for those in her communities.