Elena V. Rios, MD — administration (medical association presidents), education (teaching), internal medicine
Courtesy Elena V. Rios, MSPH, MD
From the very beginning of her training in medicine, Dr. Elena Rios (b. 1955) has worked to improve the recruitment and success rates of minority students in U.S. medical schools. After graduation, she turned her voluntary work with individual students into a large-scale, national effort by co-founding the National Network of Latin American Medical Students. Since then, she has held a series of appointments in California programs designed to improve educational and career opportunities for minorities in the health professions, and in 1998, Dr. Rios was appointed president of the National Hispanic Medical Association.
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