Get to Know Dr. Kadisha Rapp

Dr. Kadisha Rapp

Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician

Kadisha Rapp, M.D., is a practicing Board Certified Emergency Medical Physician with close to 20 years of combined education, training and practice in the field of medicine. Currently living and practicing medicine in Houston, her humble beginnings originate in Washington, D.C., where she was born on September 10, 1972.

Dr. Rapp took an early interest in Journalism and Fine Arts, but decided on studying medicine during her Junior year in college after considering her life goals and personal skills with her supportive mother and grandmother. Soon after making this decision, Kadisha was accepted into The Johns Hopkins University, where she faced a daunting and controversial four years as she witnessed JHU's administration fight against Black study programs. However, she used her strength and will to succeed to overcome educational adversity, and graduated in 1994.

Soon after graduation, Kadisha worked as a lab technical assistant and took Pre-Med courses at Howard University, where she initiated her “hands on” experience and received all A’s for two full semesters.

In 1996, Kadisha continued her studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine with the goal of either being a psychiatrist or a surgeon. But after discovering her love for using her hands, she decided not limit herself to a specific field of medicine, and decided on Emergency Medicine. This field of medicine would allow her to respond to medical emergencies by using her hands to heal various critical conditions.

In May 2000, Kadisha received her M.D. and began her residency in Emergency Medicine at Howard University Hospital. She graduated from the residency program in 2003, and entered a Sports Medicine fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital. Here, she helped care for the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team in the Orthopedics Department.

The following year, Dr. Rapp was recruited to the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. And after one year of academic medicine, she entered community practice at the Lower Bucks County Hospital in 2005.

Dr. Kadisha Rapp relocated to Houston, Texas in 2008 where she continues to practice medicine at First Choice Emergency Room in the Copperfield area.

Have a question for Dr. Rapp? Send them to her at Kadisha.Rapp@yahoo.com .

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