He serves as the Division’s Director of Diversity where he leads efforts to increase the number of diverse residents and fellows in Graduate Medical Education at UCSF. A native of South Texas, he received his M.D. from the University of Texas San Antonio School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After residency, he completed a Latino Health Disparities Research Fellowship through the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations at UCSF.