BryannaMantillaMDPhD, MPH(They/Them)

Summary

• Dr. Mantilla's current research interests center on bringing a sociological and structural critical lens to the practice of rheumatology. Their current research seeks to examine health inequalities for historically excluded and diverse patients living with axial spondyloarthritis (ankylosing spondylitis), especially with regards to the role of racial-ethnic disparities and social determinants of health in delay to diagnosis and provision of advanced therapies.
  
  They completed fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Washington and internal medicine residency at George Washington University in Washington DC. Dr.Mantilla received an MD and PhD in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They also hold a MPH from Nova Southeastern University and a BA in Health Arts and Science from Goddard College.
  
  Dr. Mantilla's dissertation research examined “undocumentedness” as a major social determinant of health for Latin American immigrants in Washington DC. Their past projects include original research conducting illness narratives with undocumented and guestworker farmworkers in North Carolina and Tennessee, as well as studying traditional medicine and autonomous healthcare delivery among Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico.