Reeni Abraham, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Reeni Abraham has trained and practiced in a myriad of locales including the Texas/Mexico border, the Bronx, and in socialized New Zealand. Practicing and learning medicine in such disparate environments served to underscore the importance of seeking to empathically understand each patient’s narrative and their social context, as well as elucidating their underlying diagnosis. Even so, her most powerful medical lessons have come not as a caregiver, but at the bedside.

Dr. Abraham believes that prioritizing quality health care is multi-faceted, and that it requires our educational system to rethink how to teach health care delivery, as well as how to role model professionalism. Many of her medical education endeavors have focused on teaching and role modeling patient-centered care and communication. 

She has worked as a perioperative specialist coordinating the care of patients with many co-morbidities across health care systems to ensure a safe outcome. Most recently she has focused her clinical effort as an academic hospitalist at both William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and Parkland Hospital, as well as a palliative care physician at Parkland Hospital.

Dr. Abraham currently serves as the UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Associate Vice Chair for Undergraduate Medical Education, Head of Fashena College, and a Colleges Mentor, where her passions are creating a safe learning environment in which learners continually grow in the application of evidence-based medicine, aspire to view medicine from their patients’ perspectives with empathy, and embed reflection into their daily practice.