Ana E. Nobis, MD, MPH Biosketch

Ana E. Nobis, MD, MPH is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency program. Prior to her fellowship, Ana completed a residency in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, where she also attended medical school. Ana is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Annika Rodriguez Scholar. Influenced by her family’s early travels through Latin America, she is passionate about occupational health at home and abroad, environmental medicine, and public health. Ana holds a Certificate in Global Health from Vanderbilt University and has participated in field-based research in Nicaragua, focusing on the epidemic of chronic kidney disease among young sugarcane harvesters. Ana is also passionate about resident well-being and was House Staff Association President during her residency at Meharry and was a resident representative to the ACGME. Ana started her career in Chicago at NorthShore University HealthSystem, an affiliate of the University of Chicago. She loved her patients, who included landscapers, bakers, and construction workers. In addition, Ana taught Environmental Health Sciences at Northwestern’s Program in Public Health for three years. In November 2019, Ana joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health as a physician in Occupational Health and Wellness. Her husband, Bill Nobis, also joined Vanderbilt as a physician-scientist epileptologist. Bill and Ana have a four year old little girl and twin 1 year old girls.