Rini B. Ratan, MD

Rini Banerjee Ratan, MD. is the Vice Chair of Education and the Berkowitz Family Professor of Women’s Health in the Department of Ob/Gyn at at Columbia University Medical Center. She is currently the Residency Program Director and Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee of NewYork-Presbyterian/CUMC. She also served as medical student Clerkship Director for eleven years.

After earning her undergraduate degree at Yale University, she attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her academic interests include developing innovative methods to enhance the quality of medical education. Dr. Ratan has received the Charles W. Bohmfalk Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, the APGO Excellence in Teaching Award, and the AMWA Outstanding Female Physician Award.

Dr. Ratan is a Fellow of the Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators at CUMC. She has served on numerous committees at the NBME, including Chair of the USMLE Women’s Health Task Force, and currently sits on the Board of the NBME. She also serves as an oral board examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.