Campus Announcements

After a national search, Dr. Yasodha Gopal, M.D. (she/her), has been named Associate Dean of Student Health and Well-Being and will begin part-time on May 16, 2022. She will expand into her full-time role on August 15, 2022 in time for the next academic year.  Yasodha is and has been an actively practicing physician of pediatrics and adolescent medicine for over 25 years cherishing deep connections with her patients and their families. She comes to us from Horizon Pediatrics where she cared for a very diverse and mostly underserved patient population. Most recently, she has also served as a well-being coach for both adolescents and adults. The pandemic further created a niche for her to offer her gifts to college students including virtual support for college students on the East Coast. Her intention is to support collective and individual well-being through the recognition and healing of intergenerational trauma. She believes in the transformative power of conversation to catapult us into intentionally designing our lives and creating the spaces we wish to inhabit together.  She shared with the Reed community a glimpse of her collaborative and creative vision for student well-being which was well-received as it was described as holistic, student-led, student-centered, respectful, and inclusive of the entire community.

Yasodha was born in California to immigrant parents from South India. She completed her residency at Harvard University’s pediatrics program at The Children’s Hospital in Boston in the prestigious Primary Care Track and remained as one of their clinical instructors in medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychobiology from UCLA and her M.D.  from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences where she met her husband. Together, they have raised three children in Portland as well as their 17-year-old Goldendoodle, named Chutney. She has been a trustee on boards of arts and educational institutions locally. Yasodha is thrilled to serve Reed College students and trusts that they are committed to finding joy and vitality on campus in all forms. She loves to travel, paint, write poetry and drink the perfect cup of tea.