FEATURED PANELIST
DR. DELA TAGHIPOUR
PHYSICIAN, ABC MEDICAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT & DIVERSITY ADVOCATE AWARENESS TIES OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR FOR HEART DISEASE AWARENESS
"Uncomfortable. That's how conversations about race can be. But we don't have the option to be silent any longer." Dr. Dela is a Preventive Medicine Physician in Baltimore, MD who is starting a fellowship in Phlebology, which is a Venous and Lymphatic Medicine Fellowship. An immigrant from a young age, Dr. Dela went through college as a Pre-Law student and then changed to medicine and did a Post-Baccalaureate at Harvard University. She graduated from Howard University School of Medicine, completed 5 years of a General Surgery Residency before her life took an unexpected turn. She then went on to complete a Preventive Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins University where she earned a MPH and an MBA. Dr. Dela truly is one of a kind, she is a Medical Journalist, a Health Disparities Researcher, has been featured on Good Morning America, Nightline, and worked on the ABC Medical Unit and in the Good Morning America Coronavirus Command Center at the start of the SARS-CoV2 outbreak. @vein.doctor