Ligia Elena Fragoso, MD, MA
Resident, Class of 2026
Department of Family and Community Medicine
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About
Before pursuing medicine, they completed undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology. They moved to Somerville/Boston, MA to complete post-bacc courses at Harvard Extension School. While there they volunteered at a Family Medicine PCMH and homeless shelter/respite care facility and worked as a research assistant in Boston Medical Center on studies focused on mitigating perinatal depression. During medical school they served as co-organizer for a medical and social work student partnership that assisted unhoused/housing unstable individuals and families access housing and wraparound services. They also volunteered at a free clinic for predominantly Latine patients in the primary care and mental health teams and formed part of student groups developing/implementing race in medicine and social medicine curricula. They currently serve as union representative and delegate for the CIR UIC chapter where they want to promote community-based efforts that prioritize patient care and improved labor conditions for hospital staff over institutional profits. Their goal is to practice full-spectrum family medicine grounded on anticapitalist, non-carceral forms of collective care. Non-work interests include reading, live music, singing, forever trying to learn the cello, dancing, hiking with their dog and partner.
Clinical Interests:
- Social medicine
- Non-carceral medical and behavioral care
- Addiction medicine
- Health at every size
- Reproductive health
- Political economy of health
- Critical medicine/public health
Selected Publications
Stergiopoulos, E., Fragoso, L., & Meeks, L. M. (2021). Cultural barriers to help-seeking in medical education. JAMA Internal Medicine, 181(2), 155-156.
Chen, D. R., Priest, K. C., Batten, J. N., Fragoso, L. E., Reinfeld, B. I., & Laitman, B. M. (2019). Student perspectives on the “Step 1 climate” in preclinical medical education. Academic Medicine, 94(3), 302-304.
Education
MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
MA, University of Iowa (Anthropology)
BA, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras (Anthropology)