These experiences have made me the person I am today:
Some other interests
Uno de ellos fue un blog acerca de la vida de personas latinas en Estados Unidos, esto de vivir con el alma en dos mundos. Aqui va el link https://vivimbmd.wordpress.com/ One of my interests was to write a blog about lives of people living with their sould in two worlds. Some of what I was…
Chair of the Health Equity Team for Family Medicine for America’s Health 2015-2018
The Health Equity Team was charged with collaborating with primary care organizations, medical schools across the United States, and other stakeholders to reduce health disparities and increase health equity. The Health Equity Tactic Team approached the challenge by: Working with the other six FMAHealth Tactic Teams to identify ways to keep health disparities and health…
Director of the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program
I was Associate Director of the Duke FM Residency from 2006 to 2014 and Director from 2014 to 2020. During my tenure as program director the program rose to national recognition as one of the top ten Family Medicine training programs in the country out of 500. Some blogs ilustrating training at Duke during my…
Co-Founder of LATIN-19 (Latinx Advocacy Team & Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19)
LATIN-19 is a multi-sector group of over 700 participants representing academic institutions, healthcare systems, public health departments, public school systems, community-based organizations, government, faith communities, and others. The coalition was established by clinicians at Duke University to address health disparities within the Latinx community as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read about LATIN-19 here…
Director of Health Equity, Duke Dept. of Family Medicine
In the work I do in my department of Family Medicine and Community Health, I propose the use of a health equity lens adapted from Sonali Balajee to look at issues and decisions within our department. I would like to use this lens in the work of WONCA. Purpose
Member of the WONCA Executive Board 2016-2021 and WONCA-WHO liaison
I am thankful to WONCA council members from around the world who elected me as WONCA Executive Member-at-Large in 2016 in Rio, and re-lected me in 2018 in Seoul. In this role I have tried to represent the general membership of WONCA, often listening to concerns, having an “ear on the ground”, paying attention to…
Dr. Viviana Martinez-Bianchi for WONCA President-elect 