Leadership
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NAMS Leadership

 
 
Pilar Ortega, MD, MGM
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Chief Executive Officer, Center for Clinician Multilingualism
Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Education and Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Founder and Ex Officio Board Director, Medical Organization for Latino Advancement
   
     
Glenn Martínez, PhD, MPH
     Board Chair and Founding Member
   Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Professor of Spanish,
      Bicultural/Bilingual Studies, and Public Health Stumberg Distinguished University Chair 
      The University of Texas at San Antonio

 


 

  
Alyssia Miller De Rutté, Ph.D
  Board Vice Chair  
  Assistant Professor of Spanish for Specific Purposes
  Director, Languages for Specific Purposes 
  Graduate Teaching Coordinator
  Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
  Colorado State University
  Adjoint Faculty and Medical Spanish Course Director, 
  University of Colorado School of Medicine at CSU
 
 
 

   
  Marco Alemán, MD 
  Treasurer and Founding Member 
  Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
  Director – Comprehensive Advanced Medical Program of Spanish (CAMPOS)

 

 

 


Robby Mueller, PharmD, BCPS
Secretary, Membership Officer, and Board Director
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Concordia University Wisconsin
School of Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacist, Ascension WI Wisconsin Ave
Family Medicine Clinic and St. Joseph Hospital Campus
Community Leader, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s 
Medical Spanish for Pharmacy Education Connect Community

 

 



Lisa Diamond, MD, MPH
Academic Medical Officer, Founding Member, and Board Director
 Associate Attending Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,  
Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service
Hospital Medicine Service, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.




                                  


   Alejandra Zapién-Hidalgo, MD, MPH
Communications Officer, Founding Member and Board Director
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Director, Bilingual Medical Spanish & Distinction Track

The University of Arizona-Health Sciences

 

 

 


Norma Pérez, MD, DrPH
Founding Member and Board Director
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs Director, 
John Sealy School of Medicine Special Programs/Hispanic Center of Excellence
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine – Geriatrics
President, Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools
Author, Clinical Conversational Spanish for English and 
Spanish Healthcare Professionals Online Course
                                                    The University of Texas Medical Branch


 
 
 
Alexandra López Vera, PhD, MPH 
Board Director
Director of the Medical Spanish Program and Assistant Professor of Medical Education

California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM)




 

 

Javier González, MA
Board Director
Director of Language Initiatives, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Center,

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  

  

 

 

 

Silvina de la Iglesia, MA
Board Director
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages at (CUNY) Hunter College. 
System Director of Language and Accessibility Services,

Mount Sinai Health Systems, N.Y.

  

 

  ***Disclaimer: Board members' activity in the National Association of Medical Spanish is volunteer-based and should be considered to represent their own professional contributions as experts in their field(s) and may not necessarily represent institutional views or sponsorship.***