Speakers. |
Speakers. |
David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D. is currently Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley, and completed his doctoral work in Basic Sciences at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Hayes-Bautista served on the faculty at the School of Public Health at U.C. Berkeley until 1987, when he took his current position at UCLA. For the past five years, he has been chosen as one of the 101 Top Leaders of the Latino Community in the U.S. by Latino Leaders Magazine. In 2012, he received the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Herbert W. Nickens Award for his lifelong concerns about the educational, societal, and health care needs of underrepresented groups, and in 2016 the Ohtli Award from the Mexican Government. |
Juanita Lopez, MD is a Family Physician Emeritus at Kaiser Permanente and evaluates patient needs through the KP telemedicine program. She has dedicated her career to serving a primarily Latino population as a Family Physician in East Los Angeles medical offices for over thirty years. Dr. Lopez has worked in-patient and out-patient settings caring for healthy newborns to complicated elderly diabetic patients. She graduated from UC Irvine in Biology and completed her medical degree at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. She is currently married with twin sons in graduate school. Dr. Lopez has plans to volunteer during retirement and work with organizations focusing on healthcare for the underserved and disenfranchised global community. |
Dr. Michael Rodriguez is professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, founding director of the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America, founding chair of the UCLA Global Health Minor, Co-Director of UCLA Firearm Violence Prevention Center, and Founding Director of the Health Equity Network of the Americas, an international network with representatives from 27 countries. Dr. Rodríguez is published widely in the areas of research that include, ethnic/racial and immigrant health equity, gun and domestic violence prevention, and universal health care. Dr. Rodríguez received his BS in Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley; his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; his residency from UCSF’s Family Medicine Residency Program; his Master of Public Health degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University and a professor of family medicine at UCSF.
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Matthew Rios is a senior at UCLA studying neuroscience with a minor in global health. He is on the board of directors for Latinxs/Chicanxs for Community Medicine (LCCM), working as the programming director for ALMA Science Academy. He is also a volunteer for the Child Life program at Harbor-UCLA as well as a tutor relations director for Los Angeles Student Educational Outreach. His goals are to do a dual-degree program where he can get both his MD and Master’s degree in Higher Education or Public Health. He aspires to work in pediatrics doing either a subspecialty in psychiatry or neurology, but also hopes to work to better population health by either creating pipeline programs for underrepresented minorities or creating population interventions that can improve the health of the community. |