Dr. Kenneth Dominguez is a medical epidemiologist on the Prevention for Negatives Team—biomedical intervention activity in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Epidemiology Branch. He has worked with CDC as a medical epidemiologist since 1993 and is especially interested in decreasing mother-to-child HIV transmission, improving the quality of life and survival of HIV-infected children, and biomedical interventions to prevent HIV transmission in all age groups. Dr. Dominguez serves as federal liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS and is the CDC spokesperson for several HIV campaigns. Through various CDC training programs, Dr. Dominguez mentors junior scientists and student interns. He was instrumental in helping co-organize CDC’s first Hispanic/Latino Health Workgroup, a scientific workgroup focused on improving Hispanic health in the US.
Dr. Dominguez received both a medical degree and master’s in public health degree at Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He completed residency training in pediatrics and preventive medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and at the CDC in Atlanta. He also trained as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer through CDC at the Puerto Rico Department of Health. Dr. Dominguez became a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service in 1991.
Dr. Kenneth Dominguez is a medical epidemiologist on the Prevention for Negatives Team—biomedical intervention activity in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Epidemiology Branch. He has worked with CDC as a medical epidemiologist since 1993 and is especially interested in decreasing mother-to-child HIV transmission, improving the quality of life and survival of HIV-infected children, and biomedical interventions to prevent HIV transmission in all age groups. Dr. Dominguez serves as federal liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS and is the CDC spokesperson for several HIV campaigns. Through various CDC training programs, Dr. Dominguez mentors junior scientists and student interns. He was instrumental in helping co-organize CDC’s first Hispanic/Latino Health Workgroup, a scientific workgroup focused on improving Hispanic health in the US.
Dr. Dominguez received both a medical degree and master’s in public health degree at Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He completed residency training in pediatrics and preventive medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and at the CDC in Atlanta. He also trained as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer through CDC at the Puerto Rico Department of Health. Dr. Dominguez became a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service in 1991.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together an average of over 300 Latino high school students, premedical students, medical students, graduating physicians, residents and practicing physicians interested in serving the healthcare needs of their community. The conference will include a series of workshops on the healthcare needs of the Latino community, student leadership training, and healthcare policy as well as several networking events.
Prizes will be awarded and students will be judged in two separate groups; high school/undergraduatestudents and medical/post graduate students. For more details: http://lmsa-ne.org/2016-poster-session
Dr. Kenneth Dominguez is a medical epidemiologist on the Prevention for Negatives Team—biomedical intervention activity in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Epidemiology Branch. He has worked with CDC as a medical epidemiologist since 1993 and is especially interested in decreasing mother-to-child HIV transmission, improving the quality of life and survival of HIV-infected children, and biomedical interventions to prevent HIV transmission in all age groups. Dr. Dominguez serves as federal liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS and is the CDC spokesperson for several HIV campaigns. Through various CDC training programs, Dr. Dominguez mentors junior scientists and student interns. He was instrumental in helping co-organize CDC’s first Hispanic/Latino Health Workgroup, a scientific workgroup focused on improving Hispanic health in the US.
Dr. Dominguez received both a medical degree and master’s in public health degree at Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He completed residency training in pediatrics and preventive medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and at the CDC in Atlanta. He also trained as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer through CDC at the Puerto Rico Department of Health. Dr. Dominguez became a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service in 1991.
Chidi Chike Achebe MD, MPH, MBA is a physician executive. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of AIDE - African Integrated Development Enterprise. He has served as the President and CEO of Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center as well as Medical Director of the Whittier Street Health Center and as Assistant Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Achebe is the third child of Professor Christie Chinwe Okoli-Achebe and the late Chinua Achebe- Nigerian politician, diplomat, novelist, poet, critic, and David and Marianna Fisher University professor emeritus at Brown University - widely regarded as the "father of modern African literature" and best known for the trilogy of classic African novels Things Fall Apart (1958); "No Longer at Ease" (1960); and "Arrow of God" (1964). Dr. Chidi Achebe graduated from the Geisel School of Medicine in 1996.
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