\u201cI found my inspiration within my family. I wanted to be like my mom,\u201d who was a nurse and immigrant from Haiti. \u201cMom had a heart for service, and modeled servant-leadership for me at a very young age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Remy Gomes received her bachelor\u2019s degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton University and went to medical school at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School before doing her residency at Schneider Children\u2019s Hospital in New York (now known as the Cohen Children\u2019s Medical Center) and her neonatology fellowship at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to medical school, she worked for a time in health care administration and as a research assistant at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and considered going into oncology and later obstetrics, but soon realized that her true calling was to work with children \u2014 especially the youngest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She began her tenure at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital while earning a master\u2019s degree in public health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She also worked internationally for six months earlier in her career through the Human Resources for Health Program focusing on training medical professionals in neonatology and working with children and families in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI took every baby home with me, in some respects,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you leave, you have to trust that [Rwanda\u2019s medical providers] will be able to sustain some of the treatments and practices they learned.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Remy Gomes joined Southcoast Health in 2016 when we expanded our affiliation with Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, and today she works as Southcoast Health\u2019s Director of Neonatology. She, her husband, and their 13-year-old daughter live in Middleborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI fall in love with a baby the first time they open their eyes,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s their innocence and vulnerability. There is a \u201cspirit of hope\u201d working with even the sickest newborns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Black History Month, celebrated each February, is important to Dr. Remy Gomes as a Black professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n