Meet María Carolina Fragozo-Ramos

María Carolina Fragozo-Ramos is an MD Ph.D. student at the Bern University Hospital’s Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine, and Metabolism (UDEM). She obtained her medical degree at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, in Colombia. After that, she obtained her residency training in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Cartagena and Universidad de Antioquia, in Colombia, respectively.

Before joining the University of Bern, María Carolina also did a visiting research stay at the University of Virginia’s Center for Diabetes Technology where she participated in clinical research. Her research has focused on the interplay of glucose, lipids, and protein metabolic pathways as predictors of metabolic syndrome in people without diabetes and the study type 1 and type diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome.