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Chapter Leadership
Dr. Fernandez was born in Tampico, Mexico and moved to San Diego, CA when she was three. Her bicultural and bilingual upbringing had a major impact on both her personal and professional life. She pursued an undergraduate degree at Stanford University in Community Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine, followed by a Master's in Public Health at UC Berkeley. She applied to medical school knowing she wanted to be a family doctor who practiced at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Her goal is to bridge public health and medicine through community medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Arizona, Tucson, where she also met her husband, a Reno native. She came to Reno to complete her family medicine residency at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is very excited to be able to pursue her passion for health equity at Community Health Alliance.
Chapter Co-chair Dr. Jose Cucalon Calderon FAAP is a General Pediatrician for Renown Children's Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics for the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Bilingual and Bicultural, Dr. Cucalon Calderon has been active in our community since moving to Reno in 2017. He teaches our future doctors and develop pediatricians at the new Pediatric Residency program at UNR Med and helped develop the Spanish for Medical Spanish Elective for UNR Med and currently is its director. He is an NHMA Healthcare leadership Fellow and the Developer, Founder and Inaugural/ current Co-Chair of the Nevada NHMA Chapter. Over the past few years, has done extensive work with Latino communities on improving vaccination rates ranging from the local to the national level, on chronic disease prevention, child health, mental health access among many other endeavors, both facing the community and those delivering care to Latinx families.
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Chapter Chair
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