Mr. Solorio is an expert in the field of public health and specializes in the areas of infectious disease, health sciences education and research, and first aid response. He has many years of professional experience in developing, executing, and evaluating public health prevention initiatives intended to keep populations and individuals healthy and disease free. In his younger days, Mr. Solorio worked in medical coding and patient data management in the Liver Transplant Department at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Right before joining ATC as the Career-Technical Education (CTE) Health Sciences Facilitator, he led the Educational Outreach and Prevention Department at AIDS Service Center, which was one of California's first AIDS service organizations. AIDS Service Center was founded in 1987 by All Saints Church in Pasadena as a response to the growing HIV epidemic. As an undergraduate student, Mr. Solorio studied medical anthropology at UCLA. And as a graduate student, he studied public health with an emphasis on risk-behavior, identity, and infectious disease, specifically HIV/AIDS. Additionally, Mr. Solorio is a certified American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED Instructor.
Mr. Solorio is a big fan of medical history, critical theory, and philosophy. In fact, he views his professional work in CTE health sciences education and public health as being informed by the scientific and academic knowledges and traditions of Hippocrates of Kos, Sigmund Freud, Judith Butler, Gloria Anzaldua, and Michel Foucault.
"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does." - Michel Foucault