CIMR Speaker Series: The Power of Networks, Community, and Persistence in My Career Journey: Planting Seeds for Your Long Term Success by Dr. Vasquez Guzman

Join the Center for Internship, Mentoring and Research (CIMR) for an insightful session with Dr. Vasquez Guzman, an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine at OHSU. Her talk is titled "The Power of Networks, Community, and Persistence in My Career Journey: Planting Seeds for Your Long Term Success." Dr. Vasquez Guzman Bio:Dr. Vasquez Guzman trained at the University of New Mexico, where she specialized in medical sociology, race, and ethnicity. She has a specific interest in socio-cultural-structural-humanistic curriculum for medical students and residents, as well as investigating inequities in medicine, health, and health delivery among Native American and Latinx communities. Dr. Vasquez Guzman has recently received a National Cancer Institute K01 Career Development Award and is a former K12 BIRCHW scholar. She is analyzing the structural factors impacting cervical cancer and documenting Latina women’s unique lived experiences, in close collaboration with a community advisory board. She is also investigating cervical cancer screening inequities among older Latina migrant farmworkers and non-Hispanic whites using data from OCHIN, a national network of community health centers. As a first-generation Latina immigrant indigenous scholar, Dr. Vasquez Guzman aims to foster equity and inclusion, because we all win when we have a compassionate, representative, and humanistic healthcare system.

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