Meet 29th Anniversary Brooklyn Tech alum, Angel Rosario Jr., MD, MPH ‘04, a General Surgery Resident Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University. He is a first-generation, low-income, first-to-college Dominican American born and raised in Harlem.

After Tech, Dr. Rosario completed his undergraduate education at SUNY: University at Buffalo, his medical degree at UCSF School of Medicine, and his Master in Public Health degree at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.His interests and research include exploring and eliminating health and surgical disparities, social justice work alongside the local community, writing, and mentorship for low-income QT and BIPOC high school, undergraduate, and medical students.

“Brooklyn Tech gave me the academic foundation to excel in sciences and introduced me heavily to the arts,” says Dr. Rosario. “I was an Architecture major, but deeply involved in musicals, Chamber Chorus, band, SING, and the Step team. Because of the arts at Brooklyn Tech, I was able to process my life and dream about the endless possibilities for my future.”