Dr Gauri Agarwal

Department of Medicine and Medical Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA

Gauri Agarwal, M.D., F.A.C.P., is the Associate Dean for Curriculum and Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Miami (UM) as part of the six-year Honors Program in Medical Education. She completed residency training in internal medicine at Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh and served as chief medical resident at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Agarwal has been on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School prior to returning to the University of Miami in 2007. She has developed, directed, and taught numerous courses at the medical school.

Dr. Agarwal has an interest in the medical humanities and founded Obliterants, the medical school's first humanities journal. She serves as the faculty advisor for the magazine and for UM’s chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She has won many school, regional, and national teaching awards, including the American College of Physicians (ACP) Medical Educator Award. In 2017, she received the Leonard Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine. Nationally, she chaired the Cell Biology and Physiology Item Writing Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners and has led national board review courses for practicing physicians for the ACP. She is also a member of the ACP's national scientific subcommittee.

Dr. Agarwal's research interests are medical education, interprofessional education, and medical humanities, including the impact of visual thinking strategies on medical education. In 2023, she was one of two faculty members nationally to be a Gold Humanism Scholar for the Harvard Macy Program for her work in developing a curriculum on the intersection of artificial intelligence and the medical humanities and was recently awarded a grant from the UM Institute for Data Science and Computing to expand this work. She sees patients at UM’s Human Rights Clinic, writes medical affidavits for patients seeking asylum, and is a physician-volunteer for the medical school's Department of Community Service.

Updated 22 January 2025