Assistant Professor
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
I am a doctoral-level medical anthropologist (a social scientist) with a research program that focuses on access for historically marginalized patients to cancer care. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson. As Director of the Health Disparities Curriculum in the College of Medicine,I teach medical students about health equity, preparing them to address the social and structural determinants of health that influence their patients’ health outcomes.