MedStaircase
Empowering Healthcare Through Diversity
MedStaircase
EIN: 86-3844543
Mission
Increasing diversity in healthcare through mentorship, scholarship and education by elevating underrepresented groups along each step of their career path. Making healthcare professions more accessible for all in order to provide equitable care to the patients we serve.
Ruling year
2021
President
Dr. Kate Ropp
Secretary
Dr. Katie Menzel Ellis
Main address
3345 SW 97th Ave
Portland, OR 97225 USA
EIN
86-3844543
Equal opportunity in education
Medical education
Voluntarism
Nonprofits
Health care access
Population served
People of African descent
People of Latin American descent
Indigenous peoples
Immigrants and migrants
Economically disadvantaged people
NTEE code
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Awards (B82)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Private Nonoperating Foundation
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-PF.
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Clinical Experience Scholarship
Our scholarship is granted to premedical students from underrepresented groups who have not had much clinical experience in healthcare. This is a requirement for medical school applications yet can be hard to find for students without personal connections to physicians. We grant financial scholarships to selected students and pair them with a clinical mentorship site that invites them to spend a week at a time shadowing their physicians and ancillary staff. Students have spent time in private practices, academic settings, clinics and operating rooms. Subsequently their mentors have participated in writing letters of recommendation for their medical school and job applications.
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MedStaircase
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
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President
Dr. Kate Ropp
Kate was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, though now definitely considers herself an Oregonian. Kate has been involved in the policy and legislative sides of medicine, serving as one of Oregon's delegates to the American Society of Anesthesiologists and as Secretary and President of the Oregon Society of Anesthesiologists (OSA). She chairs the OSA's State Affairs and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committees. Her passion is the practice of medicine, however, caring for the community's most vulnerable populations at a busy Level 1 trauma center with a high risk OB population and a Level 1 children's hospital. She founded MedStaircase in order to encourage students who might otherwise not pursue a career in medicine to consider it, knowing that a diverse healthcare workforce improves the delivery of healthcare to its patients. Kate has two school-aged sons who keep her busy, a husband who keeps them all afloat, and a Labrador puppy who's along for the ride.
Secretary
Katie Menzel Ellis
Katie grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas before moving to Austin to attend the University of Texas. Her next move was to the west coast, to attend medical school at the UCSF. There, she discovered a passion for the care of underserved populations, which led to a leadership role in the UCSF student-run homeless clinic as well as participation in the Model SFGH program, in which core medical school clinical rotations were concentrated in safety net settings. After medical school, Katie trained in the combined anesthesiology and critical care medicine residency and fellowship program at Oregon Health & Science University. Upon graduating in 2015, she returned to the care of underserved groups at the VA Portland Healthcare system, where she currently works as a critical care anesthesiologist and the Director of the surgical ICU. Through MedStaircase, Katie hopes to expand the diversity of the healthcare workforce, with the goal of best serving patients from all backgrounds and cultures.
MedStaircase
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
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MedStaircase
Board of directorsas of 07/04/2023
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Dr. Kate Ropp
MedStaircase
Term: 2021 - 2023
Katie Menzel-Ellis
Shane Hervey
Julia Zavala
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