Latin American/Hispanic Health & Education Special Interest Group
Who We Are
The Latin American/Hispanic Health & Education Special Interest Group’s mission is to promote, improve and protect unencumbered access of Hispanic and Latin Americans to the highest quality of emergency medical care along with increasing access of patients to specialty trained emergency physicians throughout Latin America.
Objectives:
- To promote education and training of emergency medicine throughout Latin America.
- To promote and protect the professional well-being of Hispanic/Latin American emergency physicians.
- To support and establish the recognition of emergency medicine internationally throughout the Hispanic/Latin American Diaspora.
Leadership
Victor Cisneros, MD MPH CPH FAAEM
Chair
Juliana Jaramillo, MD FAAEM
Co-Vice Chair
Faith Quenzer, DO MPH FAAEM
Co-Vice Chair
Robert P. Lam, MD FAAEM
Board Liaison
Kiran Kuhn
Staff Liaison
Our Projects
Common Sense Articles
- Read articles from AAEM’s member magazine, Common Sense, authored by Latin American/Hispanic Health & Education Committee members.
- Creating Safe Havens: Caring for Undocumented and Limited English Proficiency Patients in the Emergency Department by Cecilia Hurtado, MS; Victor Cisneros, MD MPH CPH FAAEM; and Jordan Vaughn, MD, January/February 2025
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