Empowering Latinx physicians, medical professionals and medical students through education, advocacy & health policy to support their efforts to eliminate health disparity, promote and optimize health and the quality of life for Latinx in California.
Dr. Scott M. Fishman is the Fullerton Endowed Chair in Pain Medicine, Professor of Anesthesiology, Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California, Davis, and
Read MoreIn conjunction with LPOC, and in recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month and National Latino Physician Day, California Medical Association (CMA) President-Elect, Donaldo Hernandez, M.D., FACP, highlighted the growing disparity between the number of Latinx health care providers and the growing number of Latinx patients.
Read MoreJoin LPOC in celebrating the first National Latinx Physician Day on October 1, 2022 and support future Latinx physicians.
Read MoreAB 2236 will not properly protect patients, nor will it establish an adequate training
framework for non-physician optometrists to acquire, or maintain, clinical skills or
experience-based competency to be permitted to perform surgical procedures on
patients’ eyes.
LPOC congratulates Governor Gavin Newsom in his selection of Dr. Diana Ramos as the new Surgeon General of California, and we join in welcoming Dr. Ramos in her new role.
Read MoreDiversifying the health care workforce is key to achieving health equity. California Health Care Foundation has released a video sharing stories from two providers, a medical student, and a nursing student about the obstacles they have encountered in their training and professions, as well as their ideas for attracting and retaining Black and Latinx people in medicine and nursing.
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