A native of Buffalo, NY, Dr Ravin graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA with a major in Anthropology.  She pursued graduate studies in Physical Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree. She graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1998 and completed her residency training in pediatrics at Nemours Children’s Hospital Delaware in 2001.  Dr. Ravin practiced general pediatrics in Dover, DE for three years before beginning fellowship training in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. During her fellowship, she also earned a master’s degree in Clinical Research from The University of Pittsburgh. In 2007, She joined the staff of Geisinger Medical Center as an attending physician in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. In 2013, she returned to Nemours to become the Division Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control.