Rosemary B Falama

Committed physician with diverse experience in diagnosing and treating patients across various medical settings. I am motivated and passionate physician with global health experience with a desire to serve in underserved, underrepresented communities.

-2024: Noble Wiley Jones Committee, 2024, Selected on a merit basis for my commitment to justice, advocacy, and humanistic patient care.

-2025: ACC IM Cardiology Program’s 2025

• Sociocultural factors affecting first-year medical students' adjustment to a PBL program at an African medical school., Kebaetse, Masego & Griffiths, Dominic & Mokone, Gaonyadiwe & Mogodi, Mpho & Conteh, Brigid & Nkomazana, Oathokwa & Wright, John & Falama, Rosemary & Kebaetse, Maikutlo., 2024, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05229-0
• Design of a Learning Development Program to Support First-Year Undergraduate Medical Students in the Transition to a PBL Curriculum., Kebaetse, Masego & Conteh, Brigid & Kebaetse, Maikutlo & Mokone, Gaonyadiwe & Nkomazana, Oathokwa & Mogodi, Mpho & Wright, John & Falama, Rosemary & Winston, Kalman., 2023, 10.1007/s40670-023-01790-3
• Lack of Viral Load Testing in Pregnancy is a Barrier to Breastfeeding among HIV-Infected Women in Botswana., Harvard-Botswana partnership (Abstract), 2018
• Learning support interventions for Year 1 medical students: a review of the literature., Kebaetse MB, Kebaetse M, Mokone GG, Nkomazana O, Mogodi M, Wright J, Falama R, Park E., 2017, 10.1111/medu.13465
• The Capacity of Eye Care Services for Patients with Glaucoma in Botswana., Razai MS, Jackson DJ, Falama R, Mongwa M, Mutapanduwa MG, Baemisi C, Josiah E, Nkomazana O, Lehasa A, Brealey E, Jankowskie D, White AJR, Kerr Muire MG, Martine KR & Ngondi JR., 2015, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/09286586.2015.1010689
• The clinical characteristics of patients with glaucoma presenting to Botswana healthcare facilities: An observational study., Jackson, Daniel & Razai, Mohammad & Falama, Rosemary & Mongwa, Matlhogonolo & Mutapanduwa, Mishell & Baemisi, Chao & Josiah, Engelinah & Nkomazana, Oathokwa & Lehasa, Alice & Brealey, Evelyn & White, Andrew & Jankowski, Deborah & Kerr-Muir, Malcolm & Martin, Keith & Ngondi, Jeremiah., 2014, 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005965
• Poster presentation at World Ophthalmic Congress: “Ophthalmic Nurses Managing Glaucoma - Is This the Solution for the Resource-Constrained Settings?”, 2014
• Development of a Contextually Appropriate Orthopedic Surgery Residency Curriculum in Botswana., Award received. Bones and Phones Legacy Scholarship., 2014

Represent in Medicine Mentorship: programming centered around the needs and interests of trainees, faculty and staff who identify as underrepresented in medicine.

• Unmasking PJP case report, selected for presentation at SGIM
• Use of FXI inhibitors in AFIB, 2024-ongoing
• Ukraine health needs assessment, As requested by the Ukraine Government, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Humanitarian crises group), 2023
• Global health Covid mapping project, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 01/01/20, 12/31/22