Marisa Iaderosa, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, attended the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) National Conference of Special Constituencies in April as the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians LGBTQ+ delegate and was elected as co-convener for the 2027 conference.
Dr. Iaderosa is featured in AAFP’s #FamilyDocFocus telling her path to family medicine.
Dr. Iaderosa spent a lot of time in her father’s primary care practice as a child, where she witnessed the love he had for his work and the love his patients had for their doctor.
Still, she wasn’t convinced that medicine was the right career for her.
“I was determined to do something different,” said Dr. Iaderosa, who studied sociology at the University of Michigan, “but I kept coming back to medicine. Most of my classes were healthcare oriented and health-outcomes based. I was drawn to the bigger picture of why there are health disparities and how policy, historical context, and urban development play a role. I also liked the hard sciences and working directly with individuals. I kept trying to not do medicine, but eventually I realized this is what I felt called to do.”
Read Dr. Iaderosa’s full feature on the AAFP website.