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

 


 Alexandra López Vera, PhD, MPH 
  Board Vice Chair  
 Director of the Medical Spanish Program and Assistant Professor of Medical Education
California University of Science and Medicine (CUSM)
 



 
 

   
 
Alyssia Miller De Rutté, Ph.D
Treasurer and Board Director
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 

  


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


 
 


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






 

 

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. 
 

  

 

 






Jessica Clemente, MA
Board Director
Curriculum and Community Engagement Coordinator
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

 

 

 




Monica Rojas, MD, MDIPH 
Board Director 
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Medical Director of International Medicine and Cultural Education
Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine

 

 

 

 

 
Jess Ruiz-Lebron, MBA
Board Director
Program Manager 
National Board of Medical Examiners
 

 

 

  ***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.***