Professional development

Medical Education Clinical Scholar

The McGaw Medical Education Clinical Scholars Program is a two-year certificate program, offering Northwestern University’s McGaw Graduate Medical trainees (residents and fellows) a competency-based medical education certificate program to provide them with training in educational theory and teaching in a variety of settings.

Program Objectives

Provide trainees who have an interest in medical education with the opportunity to receive more information on how to achieve this career path and increased opportunities to grow as an educator
Provide experiential opportunities in a variety of medical education formats, including clinical teaching, administration, educational research, curriculum design, and assessment
Provide career mentorship to trainees interested in medical education
Promote faculty-mentored scholarly activity in medical education for trainees

Leadership experience

Chief Resident 2021-2022: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Mentor at the Medical Organization of Latino Advancement (MOLA) Mentorship Program

Honors and Awards

Dr. Susan Perlman Award for Senior resident who best exemplified academic excellence, special leadership skills and compassion for patients. 2023
Jerome H. Strauss Award First Prize from the Binford-Dammin Society of Infectious Disease Pathologists in recognition of work entitled “Comparative Evaluation Between Real-Time PCR Reaction Assay and Direct Immunofluorescence Antibody for Pneumocystis jirovecii.” 2021
Medical Graduate with Honors - Summa Cum Laude Distinction. 2017
Highest National GPA for a Medical Student- National Ministry of Health El Salvador. 2016
First place in Research Protocols Presentations in the Biomedical Research Contest, XIX Medical Congress, Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado, San Salvador, El Salvador for the project: “Genetic variations of Factor V and Prothrombin found in Salvadoran patients with Deep Vein Thrombosis and their clinical relevance". 2016
Outstanding GPA Recognition Awards, Universidad Dr. Jose Matias Delgado. 2015, 2013, 2011
Salvadoran-American Medical Society Scholarship Program for Superior Education. 2011

Spotlights

Women of the Month

September is the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Women in Medicine Month, created to recognize the growing number of women in the profession. The Department of Pathology is proud to have a number of exceptional women in our Department.

I was honored to be featured on September 2021.

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