Davy Ran MD MSc MPH is a primary care doctor and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. They have been involved in global and public health equity work for over a decade. They have with specialised training in Latinx, LGBT, and disability health justice. Their overarching goal is to ultimately make healthcare a more accessible, inclusive, and equitable space.

Dr. Ran is a native New Yorker who had the privilege of a multicultural and multilingual upbringing that inspired a love of global health. Prior to the pursuit of a medical degree, Dr. Ran worked as a medical photojournalist in 10 countries across 5 continents, raising awareness of specific community needs and encouraging equitable resource distribution.

Dr. Ran attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (URSMD) where they were part of the specialised Deaf Health Pathway and Latinx Health Pathway certificate programs. They additionally participated in a year-long Medical Humanities & Bioethics sponsorship initiative wherein they wrote and illustrated a book on the experiences of multiple minority students in medicine; for this work they were awarded URSMD’s competitive Health Humanities Year Out Research Award in 2021. Dr. Ran completed their Internal Medicine Residency at the Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program, where they founded the Interdisciplinary Internal Medicine Narrative Medicine Seminar, created the first transgender health standardised patient experience, and were awarded the Einstein Teaching Star Award for exceptional medical student education and mentorship. They continue to work on building out transgender health and medical humanities educational opportunities for medical students and residents at Weill Cornell Medicine and beyond.