Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario Facultad de Medicina

Maria Velez grew up in the U.S. and Colombia and obtained her MD from the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario Facultdad de Medicina in 2017. She spent the next two years working as a General Physician in Bogota, prior to moving to the United States in 2019. She has subsequently been a post-doctoral research fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she investigated how to bring integrative therapies to children undergoing complex radiological procedures. During this time, she also created a prize-winning transparent origami facemask for kids. Her interests include child and adolescent psychiatry, C-L, and doing implementation research in pediatric populations. In addition to art, she loves to cook, hike, and play movie soundtracks on the piano.