Dr. Ritze received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2009, and completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at OHSU. After completing a chief residency year, she worked as a clinical and teaching hospitalist for two years at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She returned to Portland in 2015 to join the OHSU Division of Hospital Medicine.  Dr. Ritze finds great reward in the clinical practice of hospital medicine, as well as in medical education, palliative care, and systems improvement.  In her free time, she enjoys hiking, spending time with family and friends, cheering for the Boston Red Sox, and is a novice cook and gardener.