Luiz Walter Alvarez, PhD
Dr. Luiz Walter Alvarez was an inventor, American physicist, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for the discovery of resonance particles. Alvarez was born in San Francisco on June 13, 1911. His grandfather and father were doctors. His father took a post at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, […]
2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit Discussion
Eugene Manley, Jr, PhD, SCHEQ (STEMM & Cancer Health Equity) Founder & CEO, recently spoke with Jill Squire on Episode 36 of the Everything Cancer Podcast. In this conversation we discussed the 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit that will be held at PCOM -Georgia Nov 18-19, 2024. The goal of this summit is to […]
SCHEQ 2nd Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit
The 2nd SCHEQ Lung Cancer Health Equity Summit will be held at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia in Suwanee, GA, Nov 18 – Nov 19, 2024. The theme is “Black and Latino Patients Navigating Lung Cancer: Stepping Stones to Equity”. The registration page can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/LCHES Poster Submission page is: […]
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, MD, PhD
Dr. Sara Elizabeth Stewart, born in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1905, was a researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology. Her father was an American mining engineer and her mother was Mexican. To escape the Mexican revolution, her family moved to the United States in 1911. She received two Bachelor’s degrees (1927) in Home […]
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama in 1920 before immigrating to San Antonio, Texas, in 1945. She earned a nursing diploma from San Antonio’s Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing (1948). There she began to recognize the disproportionately low number of Hispanic nurses and found that it impacted care delivery for Hispanic patients. […]
Nicole Hernandez Hammer, MBA, MS
At the age of four, Nicole Hernandez Hammer and her family immigrated to the United States from Guatemala. She was then raised in Florida and began a lifelong journey into combating climate change. She received a BS in Integrated Natural Sciences from the University of South Florida (USF), a MS in Biology from Florida Atlantic […]
Domingo Santo Liotta, MD
Domingo Liotta was born to Italian immigrant parents on November 29th, 1924, in Diamante, Argentina. He received his MD (1949) from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, He stayed as a Surgical Resident and went on to obtain his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery (1953). While his doctorate work was on the Clinical Anatomy of Common […]
Claudio Castillón Lévano, PhD
Dr. Claudio Castillón Lévano was born on December 15, 1954 in Trujillo, Peru and would go on to be the most diverse and prolific Hispanic inventor of our time. He earned his BS and MS in Telecommunications Engineering before earning his PhD in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru. Through […]
Baruj Benacerraf, MD
Baruj Benacerraf was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish-Jewish parents. His early childhood was spent in Paris, France where his family stayed until the early 1930s before fleeing back to Venezuela under the threat of the Second World War. Benacerraf’s father was a textile merchant and importer, and hoped his son would follow […]
Carlos Juan Finlay, MD
Born in 1833 in Cuba, Carlos Juan Finlay was a physician and scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Both of Finlay’s parents were European and he pursued his early education in France. Finlay earned his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855. During his medical studies, he befriended and […]