Laurel Gabler, MD, DPhil, MSc

Biography

Laurel Gabler, M.D., D.Phil., MSc, is committed to improving pediatric emergency care in underserved communities. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University. During her undergraduate years, Laurel had the opportunity to work in Ecuador, through Children International, assisting a pediatrician running a program to address malnutrition. Upon graduation from Stanford, she worked in Tanzania as an HIV educator for the NGO, Support for International Change. Following this experience, Laurel was awarded the Luce Scholarship, and spent the year in rural Thailand learning about Thai traditional medicine and working on a farm that grew medicinal plants for the local hospital. Before attending and receiving her M.D. from Harvard Medical School, Laurel earned a M.Sc. in Global Health Science and a D.Phil. in Public Health through the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her research focused on health-seeking behaviors and health service delivery in rural Nepal, where she lived for two-and-a-half years, funded through a Fulbright fellowship. Laurel continued her global health work during medical school through the Harvard South Asia Institute, where she helped community health workers in rural India devise community empowerment projects. While matriculating at CHOP for residency, Laurel had the opportunity to return annually to Tanzania to teach local interns, run a weekly rehabilitation clinic, and create pediatric dosing and reference cards that are now utilized throughout the hospital. After residency, Laurel worked as a Pediatrician in the Emergency Department at CHOP for a year before beginning her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. She hopes to continue to work at the intersection of public health, clinical medicine, and health education both domestically and internationally.