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Theresa Loya, MD — internal medicine, education (teaching), diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)

Courtesy Theresa Loya, MPH, MD

Dr. Theresa Loya (b. 1943) was the first in her family to attend college. Today, with board certifications both in anatomic and clinical pathology and in internal medicine, she seeks to help the poor and underserved with cancer prevention strategies as well as early detection and intervention for those who already have the disease. Dr. Loya served in the Peace Corps in North Africa before assuming positions as assistant professor of pathology at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and assistant clinical professor of pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley, she helped establish La Clínica de la Raza in East Oakland, and she spent more than twenty years working to improve the health status of farm workers in Guatemala.

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