PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2007-2008

KEILA LOPEZ, MD, MPH

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Dr. Lopez was most recently Chief Pediatric Resident at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. As a 1999 Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship recipient, she studied the discrepancy in health care for women in public compared with private hospitals in different Brazilian urban centers. As a 2002 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Substance Abuse Fellow, she worked at the University of Pennsylvania with health care professionals who specialized in treating HIV patients with substance abuse. Her work with the National Hispanic Medical Association resulted in her receiving an NIH travel award. She has co-authored articles for “The Journal of Interventional Cardiology” and “Preventive Medicine” and has presented at poster sessions at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions and the Banff International Conference on Adolescent Substance Abuse.

Dr. Lopez received her medical degree from Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL in 2003 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Chicago in 2006. She will begin a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Baylor Texas Children’s Hospital in 2008.

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