Dr. Onelia G. Lage oversees the Department of Medical Education and directs pediatric and adolescent health for the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP). She also teaches in the Community Engaged Physician courses and mentors students and faculty interested in academic medicine.
With over three decades of academic medical experience at Florida International University and the University of Miami. Lage has held several leadership roles. She is a past chair of the Florida Board of Medicine (2010) and a former principal investigator for the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium grant. She is a nationally-recognized speaker on minority adolescent health, social determinants of health, and interprofessional education.
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Current Courses Taught
- BMS 6827 Community Engaged Physician I
- BMS 6071 Community-Engaged Physician II
- MDC 6102 Community Engaged Physician III
- MDC 6103 Community Engage Physician IV
Honors & Awards
- FIU Medicine Curriculum Committee
- MPAS Quality Assurance Advisory Committee
- FIU Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee
- Education Operation Committee
- Effort Allocation Review Committee
Education
- Fellowship, Adolescent Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL 1992
- Residency, Pediatrics, Metropolitan Hospital Center/New York Medical College, New York, NY 1989
- M.D., Universidad Central Del Este, Dominican Republic, 1985
Board Certifications
- Adolescent Medicine Subspecialty
- American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
- American Board of Pediatrics