[2] In 1973, she followed her husband, Renato Rossi, to Milan, Italy, where she qualified for an Italian medical degree before practicing for a year.
[3] Rossi followed, and joined the Hospital for Sick Children as a pediatrician in the division of adolescent medicine, and a pediatrics professor at the University of Toronto.
[2][3][4] The Association engaged in outreach to high schools in the Greater Toronto Area and launched a Summer Mentorship Program in 1994.
[8][9] From 1990 to 1993, Rossi served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Race Relations and Anti-racial Initiatives of the University of Toronto.
[4][11] In 2017, BPAO collaborated with the University of Toronto to establish the Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education.
Upon being recognized as one of 100 accomplished Black Canadian Women, Rossi stated:"I believe the greatest accomplishments during my career in the Health Sciences was (a) to be instrumental in bringing about a change in the admission procedures that allowed a larger number of minority students to enter the field of Health Sciences at the University of Toronto; (b) not second, but equally important, was the founding of the Mentoring Program at the Faculty of Medicine for underachieving minority high school students that allowed more students to gain the confidence to apply and be accepted to programs in Health Sciences at various universities.