Kate Rosen was raised by two teachers and grew up in Salem, Oregon, on a healthy diet of art museums, hiking trips, and Tom Petty. As an undergraduate she attended Santa Clara University, where she studied chemistry, biology, and public health while also working as a volunteer EMT. After graduating, she worked in quality improvement at Stanford Children's Health using clinical informatics and systems-based thinking to improve healthcare. She then received her MD from the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, where she was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical student honor society, and of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, which recognizes senior medical students for excellence in compassionate clinical care. Dr. Rosen has been a mentor to students under-represented in medicine and is one of the founders of The Differentialists, a student group formed to build diagnostic reasoning skills. Her research has included studying delayed cerebral ischemia after pituitary macroadenoma resection, and her study of fluid overload in pediatric ICU patients was named Best Abstract by a Trainee at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She strives to specialize in neuro-oncology, with a focus on clinical trials and immunotherapy. In her free time Dr. Rosen likes to run marathons and climb mountains.
