Dr. Romo received his B.S from the University of California Riverside and received his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008. He went on to complete his Pediatrics residency at Jacobi Medical Center where he also served as Chief resident. Dr. Romo went to complete the Primary Care Clinical Research Fellowship in Community Health in the Division of Child & Adolescent Health at Columbia University where he also obtained an M.S in Epidemiology from The Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Romo now is an attending Pediatric hospitalist at the Jacobi Medical Center Lewis M. Fraad Departement of Pediatrics and also serves as Co-Director of the Pediatrics Inpatient Service. In addition he also serves as the medical director of the Pediatric Violent Trauma Follow up Clinic and of the Bronx Stand Up to Violence (S.U.V) program which is the Jacobi Medical Center Community Violence Prevention Initiative. The S.U.V Program is a multidisciplinary hospital based community violence prevention program that incorporates the cure violence model with credible messengers acting as outreach workers and violence interrupters to identify high risk individuals and interrupt violence in the community and in the hospital. While in the hospital the S.U.V team responds to every patient that is shot, stabbed, or assaulted with a coordinated response consisting of Dr. Romo, Erika Mendelsohn LMSW who is also the program director, a hospital responder from the community, all working together to prevent retaliation and future victimization, and improve rates of follow-up and health outcomes. Dr. Romo’s research interests include the epidemiology of violence and the incorporation and evaluation of community violence prevention initiatives in at risk youth along with examining the effects of PTSD and chronic stress in trauma victims. He is also actively involved in incorporating reading and workshops on socioeconomic determinants of health and the effects of violence into the community pediatrics rotation curriculum required during the intern year and offered as an elective to fourth-year medical students. Dr. Romo is also a member of the department’s education committee and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.