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Family Medicine Research Symposium

Join us and support our Family Medicine residents as they present their projects on quality improvement, enhancing patient care, and improving resident education. This event will feature resident platform and poster presentations from UTRGV School of Medicine's Family Medicine Residency Programs at McAllen Medical Center, Knapp Medical Center, and Doctors Hospital at Renaissance.


Event Information

Friday, May 13, 2022

12:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. 

UTRGV School of Medicine

1210 W. Schunior Street
Edinburg, TX 78541
SOM Auditorium EMEBL 1.203 (poster presentation) and EMEBL 2.125 (keynote speaker/lunch)

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Registration

  • Registration price: Free
  • Click here to Register
  • Register by 5/6/2022

Keynote Address

Continuing Medical Education: 12-1pm

Keynote Address: Serving the Hispanic/Latino Community. A Research Approach.
Keynote Speaker: Javier F. Sevilla Mártir, MD

Javier F. Sevilla Mártir, MD

About Javier F. Sevilla Mártir, MD

Javier F. Sevilla Mártir, MD is originally from Honduras where he completed medical school in 1993. Before coming to the United States, Dr. Sevilla practiced medicine in Honduras as a general practitioner for four years. These included three years in a nonprofit hospital and a year of volunteer work with an ambulatory clinic, providing care for the Lenca tribes in the mountains of Honduras.

Dr. Sevilla-Mártir completed his internship in Family Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois and his residency training at Methodist Hospital- Indiana University in 2002.

After joining the Department of Family Medicine, he completed a one-year faculty development fellowship in underserved medicine leadership in 2003 and then served as assistant director for the fellowship. He was appointed Director for Global health and International Medicine and Hispanic/Latino Health within the department in 2005.

In 2004 he developed ENLACE (Enhancing Latino America Care Experiences) a comprehensive program for Underserved Medicine, International Medicine and Global Health. This includes integration of Spanish into clinical courses and elective rotations in Underserved Medicine and Global Health for medical students and residents with emphasis on equity and quality of care, cultural competence and medical Spanish.

Dr. Sevilla-Mártir was appointed Assistant Dean for Diversity Affairs in 2009 in recognition of his efforts for​ recruitment, development and retention of many underrepresented in medicine students, residents and faculty and creating and promoting a welcoming, supportive and inclusive learning environment and enhancing the diversity and inclusiveness at IUSM.

In 2016 Dr. Sevilla-Mártir was promoted to full professor and honored as the first recipient of the named professorship "Underserved Indiana Patients Professor".

Over the years Dr. Sevilla has led students to found several students interest groups and serves as faculty advisor including the Medical Spanish and Society of Latino SOL medical students (NLMA), the Student Outreach Clinic, Gold Humanism Honor society and the International medicine and global health.

In 2009 Dr. Sevilla-Mártir lead the class of 2010 to open the Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic, an interprofessional/interdisciplinary and inter institutional project to provide care for the underserved in Indianapolis with now three universities and nine health care professional and allied schools.

Dr Sevilla provides support and guidance in the development of educational, service and research activities in the community and Latin America for students, residents, and junior faculty with interest in his areas of Expertise.

His scholarly work and service has been recognized with multiple teaching and service awards at the school, local, state and national level.


Questions?

For additional information and questions, contact:

James Fahey: James.Fahey@utrgv.edu

Vicente Reyna: Vicente.Reyna@utrgv.edu

Contact

Vicente Reyna
Administrative Assistant
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Vicente.Reyna@utrgv.edu
(956) 296-1534

James Fahey, MD
Chair / 5th Annual Family Medicine Research Symposium
Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine
James.Fahey@utrgv.edu

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