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#LatinXBioethics

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Joanne Suarez, MBE

• Current Position(s): Founder & Executive Director, LatinX Bioethics

Community Health Assistant, The Family Van- Harvard Medical School

• Based out of Boston, MA
• Nationality: Dominican
• Interests in community healthcare, population health, and health policy

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@JoanneCSuarez

Casey Rojas, JD, MBE

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• Current Position: Government Relations Advisor, MA Medical Society
• Based out of Boston, MA
• Nationality: Bolivian
• Interests in health law and policy

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@Casey_A_Rojas

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Katrina Muñoz, MBE

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• Current Position: Research Assistant II, Baylor College of Medicine
• Based out of Houston, TX
• Nationality: Mexican
• Interests in neuroethics, clinical ethics, immigrant and refugee health

Thalia Porteny, PhD

• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab for Research on Ethics, Aging, and Community Health (REACH Lab), Tufts University
• Based out of Boston
• Nationality: Mexican
• Interests in population ethics
• Read Access to Transplantation for Undocumented Pediatric Patients

Natalia Acevedo, LLM, MBE (c)

• Current Position: Fulbright Scholar, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
• Based out of Pittsburgh, PA
• Nationality: Colombian
• Interests in human rights law, disability rights, sexual and reproductive rights

@naacevedog

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Carolyn Friedhoff, MBE

• Current Position: Research Coordinator, UMass Medical School
• Based out of Miami
• Nationality: Nicaraguan-American
• Interests in maternal mental health

@CaroFriedhoff

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Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz PhD, JD, MBE

• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine
• Based out of Houston, TX
• Nationality: Puerto Rican
• Interests in neuroethics, ELSI, psychiatry, emerging neurotechnologies
• Read Continued access to investigational brain implants

@GLMbioethics

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Sergio Litewka, MD, MPH

• Current Position: International Program Director, Miami University
• Based out of Miami, FL
• Nationality (if known):
• Interests in research ethics, global ethics
• Read Latin American healthcare systems in times of pandemic

@SLitewka

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Rabbi Claudio Kogan, MD, MBE

• Current Position: Director of Bioethics and Social Justice, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Based out of Edinburg, TX
• Nationality(if known):
• Interests in bioethics, social justice

Donna Castelblanco, MBE

• Current Position: Strategic Projects Specialist, NYC DOHMH, Public Health
• Based out of New York, NY
• Nationalities: Colombian and Ecuadorian
• Interests in community health, maternal and child health, and research ethics
• Read Undocumented Latino Immigrants and Research: New Challenges in Changing Times

@dgcastelblanco

Suzanne M Rivera, PhD , MSW

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• Current Position: President, Macalester College
• Based out of St Paul, MN
• Nationality: Cuban
• Interests in research ethics, science policy, social inequality in clinical trials, animal care and use, scientific integrity
• Read Clinical Research from Proposal to Implementation: What Every Clinical Investigator Should Know about the Institutional Review Board

@suzannemrivera

Julieta Moreno, MBE

• Current Position: Consultant, Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia
• Based out of Bogota, Colombia
• Nationality: Colombian
• Interests in end of life, palliative care, public health, Zika virus

Karen Herrera Ferra, MD, PhD

• Current Position: Founder and President, Mexican Association of Neuroethics
• Based out of Naucalpan de Juarez Area, Mexico
• Nationality: Mexican
• Interests in neuroethics, mental health
• Read Global mental health and the treatment gap: A human rights and neuroethics concern

@nueroethicsinfo

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Rafael Campo, MD

• Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Based out of Boston, MA
• Nationality:
• Interests in medical humanities, poetry
• Read “The Medical Humanities,” for Lack of a Better Term

Jorge L.A. Garcia

• Current Position: Professor, Boston College
• Based out of Boston, MA
• Nationality:
• Interests in philosophy and race, euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide
• Read Current Conceptions of Racism: A Critical Examination of Some Recent Social Philosophy

Debora Diniz

• Current Position: Professor Faculty of Law, University of Brasilia
• Based out of Brasilia, Brazil
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Interests in bioethics, feminism, human rights, and health
• Read What is bioethics?

@Debora_D_Diniz

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Miguel de la Torre

• Current Position: Professor of Social Ethics, ILIFF School of Theology
• Based out of Denver, CO
• Nationality: Cuban
• Interests in immigration rights, social ethics, liberation theology, Latinx religiosity
• Read The US Immigration Crisis: Towards an Ethics of Place

@DrDeLaTorre

Miguel I. Dorante, MD, MBE

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• Current Position: Plastic Surgery Resident, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
• Based out of Boston, MA
• Nationality: Venezuelan
• Interests in surgical ethics education, health policy, and medical innovations
• Read Pediatric face transplantation: a viable option?

@mdorant1

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Ines Hanhausen, MD (c)

• Current Position: Medical Student, Universidad Anahuac
• Based out of Huixquilucan, Mexico
• Nationality: Mexican
• Interests in INSERT FIELDS ON INTERESTS

Lourdes G. Bahamonde, DO, HEC-C

• Current Position: Physician; Medical Ethics Consultant
• Based out of California.
• Nationality: Puerto Rican
• Interests in Education, Translational Medicine, Nutrition, Preventive Health
• Training: Northwell Health Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Medical Ethics

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@DrB2Go

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Ana S.Iltis, PhD

• Current Position: Carlson Professor of University Studies; Professor of Philosophy; Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, Wake Forest University
• Based out of: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Nationality: Cuban
• Interests in: Research Ethics; Organ Transplantation
• Training: Philosophy

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Jorge Rivera Agosto, JD, MS, HEC-C

• Current Position: Assistant Deputy Counsel, New York State Senate
• Based out of Albany, NY
• Nationality: Puerto Rican
• Interests in health law and bioethics and philosophy of bioethics
• Training: Law, Bioethics

Tariana V. Little, DrPH

• Current Position: CEO and cofounder, EmVision Productions; Instructor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
• Based out of Greater Boston
• Nationality: Dominican and German
• Interests in the intersections of public health, communications and business
• Training: Public Health, Communications, Ethnic Studies, Epidemiology

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@TVLENSES

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Monik C. Jiménez, ScD SM

• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Based out of Boston & Springfield, MA
• Nationality: Mexican & Colombia
• Interests in carceral control and chronic disease, intersection of sex and race/ethnicity in inequities in stroke
• Training: Epidemiology

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@DrMonikJimenez @Lab_Liberation

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Pablo Cuartas, MD (c) , MBE (c)

• Fellow, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics
• Based out of Bronx, NY.
• Colombian
• Interests in transplantation ethics, public health disaster medicine, non-identity problem ethics
• Washington University in St. Louis, BA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MD candidate, Einstein-Cardozo Master of Bioethics, MBE candidate

Emily Rodriguez, MS (c)

• Current Position: MS candidate, Columbia University
• Based out of New York, NY.
• Nationality: Cuban
• Interests in Neuroethics, Environmental ethics, Distributive justice in healthcare
• Training: Bioethics, Biology, Philosophy

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@erodbioethics

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Samuel Mendez, MS

• Current Position: PhD Student in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Based out of Chicago
• Nationality: Mexican American
• Interests in health equity, health communication, community engagement
• Training: media arts, media studies, qualitative research

samuelanimates.com

Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD

• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
• Based out of Bay Area, CA.
• Nationality: Mexican American
• Interests in: Neuroethics, Ethics of Digital Health & AI in Healthcare, Psychiatric/Mental Health Ethics, Health Disparities
• Training: Law, Bioethics, Social Sciences-Anthropology

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@girasoul

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Andrés F. Uribe M, Pediatrician & Neonatologist

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• Current Position: Chair of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. PhD student in bioethics, Universidad del Bosque.
• Based out of Medellín, Colombia.
• Nationality: Colombia
• Interests in fetal viability, beginning and end of life in the NICU, inequality
• Training: Pediatrics, bioethics, health economics

mduribem

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Daniella Vargas, MSN, MPH, MA-Bioethics, RN, PHN

• Current Position: Doctor of Nursing Practice student, University of San Francisco
• Based out of San Francisco.
• Nationality: Columbian
• Interests in nursing ethics
• Training: nursing

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@danihasaduck

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Lucas França Garcia, PhD

• Current Position: Professor, Graduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University
• Based out of Brazil.
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Interests in history and sociology of science, health promotion, research ethics, clinical bioethics and public health
• Training: Social Sciences, Sociology
• Read Mapping Bioethics in Latin America: History, Theoretical Models, and Scientific Output

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@lucasfgarciabr

José Roberto Goldim, BSc, MSc, PhD

• Current Position: Biologist, Head of Bioethics Division/Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA/UFRGS); Adjunct Professor, Medical School/Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS); Bioethics Consultant
• Based out of Brazil.
• Nationality: Brazillian
• Interests in Clinical Bioethics; Research Ethics; �Complex Bioethics
• Training: Biology; Bioethics; Bioethics History
• Publication: www.bioetica.ufrgs.br

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@GoldimJose

@jrgoldim

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Monica Magalhaes, PhD

• Current Position: Program Manager, Rutgers Center �for Population-Level Bioethics
• Based out of New Brunswick, NJ
• Nationality: Brazilian
• Interests in priority-setting in health policy, public health ethics, research ethics, ethical issues in measurement and evaluation
• Training: Health Policy, Philosophy/Ethics
• Publications: https://scholar.harvard.edu/monica/publications

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monicaqfm

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Khara Ramos, Ph.D.

• Director, Neuroethics Program National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
• Based out of Bethesda, MD
• Nationality: Mexican American
• Interests: neuroethics, neurotechnology, neuroscience & society
• Training: Neuroscience
• Neuroethics Questions to Guide Ethical Research in the International Brain Initiatives

@KharaRamos

https://www.linkedin.com/in/khara-ramos-ph-d-8b2b6b58/

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Carlos A. Larrauri, MSN

• Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness
• Zuckerman Fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership
• JD/MPA Candidate at Michigan Law and HKS
• Based out of Miami, FL
• Nationality: Cuban-American
• Interests: mental-health, lived experience, disability rights, health law and policy
• Training: law, policy, and nursing
• Publications: https://www.carloslarrauri.com/publications

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@larrauri_carlos

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carloslarrauri/

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Sandra M. Fabregas, RPh,MSc,PhD

• Current Position: Executive Director Centro Latino de Bioetica y Humanidades
• Based out of United States
• Nationality: Puerto Rican
• Interests in: Advance Directives, Moral Distress, Health Communication
• Training: Pharmacy, Public Communication, Bioethics, American History
• Publications https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Fabregas/citations?sorting=citationCount&page=1

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Polo Camacho, PhD

• Current Position: Applied Bioethicists, Program Manager
• Based out of: Kansas City, MO
• Nationality: Mexican American
• Interests in: End-of-life Bioethics, Shared Decision-making and advance care planning in the Latinx community
• Training: University of Kansas

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@mpolocamacho

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Pageen M. Small, MS, RN, HEC-C

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• Current Positions: Clinical Ethicist, UPH-Meriter; Regional Services RN Coordinator, UWHealth
• Based out of Madison, WI.
• Interests in pediatrics, structural justice
• Training: MS in Healthcare Ethics from Creighton University, BSN from University of Evansville
• Publications and other details available on Linked In bio

Sandra M. Fabregas, R.Ph.

• Current Position: Exetu
• Based out of .
• Nationality:
• Interests in
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LatinX Bioethicists

BASED IN UNITED STATES

Joanne Suarez, MBE

Casey Rojas, JD,MBE

Katrina Munoz, MBE

Thalia Porteny, PhD

Carolyn Friedhoff, MBE

Gabriel Lazaro Munoz PhD, JD, MBE

Sergio Litewka, MD, MPH

Rabbi Claudio Kogan, MD, MBE

Jorge Rivera Agosto, JD, MS

Carlos A. Larrauri, MSN

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BASED IN LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

Julieta Moreno, MBE

Natalia Acevedo, LLM, MBE (c)

Ines Hanhausen, MD (c)

Karen Herrera Ferra, MD, PhD

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Donna Castelblanco, MBE

Suzanne M Rivera, PhD

Rafael Campo, MD

Jorge L.A. Garcia

Debora Diniz

Miguel de la Torre

Miguel Dorante, MD, MBE

Lourdes G. Bahamonde, DO, HEC-C

Nicole Martinez-Martin, JD, PhD

Monica Magalhaes, PhD

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