Monica DeMasi, MD, FAAFP

Monica DeMasi, MD, FAAFP is a core faculty member at the Providence Family Medicine Residency Program in Portland, Oregon. In 2015 Dr. DeMasi relocated to Oregon where she teaches and sees patients, after nine years seeing patients at the Cambridge Health Alliance with teaching and leadership roles at Harvard Medical School. In her current role she leads medical student education and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-racism efforts for the residency.  She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at OHSU and is on the board of the Oregon Practice Based Research Network. She is on the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Oregon Medical Association. Dr. DeMasi leads the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-racism Curriculum Toolkit project and co-leads the Planetary Health Collaborative of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

Dr. DeMasi is passionate about population health in primary care, quality improvement, medical education, planetary health and physician advocacy for patients and communities. Her clinical interests are preventative care, women’s health, LGBTIA+ health, and special needs pediatrics. She is also developing educational experiences in her residency program focusing on community health, physician leadership and health systems education. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and particularly enjoys providing medical care for underserved and immigrant communities.

Dr. DeMasi received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Case Western Reserve University where she studied medical anthropology and focused on primary care. She completed her family medicine residency at Brown University in 2006. She was an Innovation Fellow and then a senior Innovation Fellow through Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care and was the 2014 Eisenberg Family Fellow of the Academy of Medical Education at Harvard Medical School.