SACRAMENTO LATINO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Medical Director for California Health & Wellness
Dr. Zúñiga is originally from Cúcuta, Colombia. He received his M.D. degree from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia. After immigrating to the U.S. he completed a Fellowship in Medical Genetics and Cytogenetics in Milwaukee, WI. He then completed his Family Medicine Residency training at St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. Zúñiga has completed faculty development fellowship training at UC San Francisco and program Director training with the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. He holds a M.B.A. degree from UC Davis.
Ramiro worked for the Tehama County Health Center and Skilled Nursing Facility from 1996 until 1999. He then joined the San Joaquin General Hospital Family Medicine Residency program in Stockton and served as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine for several years. He was the FM Residency Program Director from 2008 until 2014. He has received multiple recognition awards for his clinical, teaching, and residency director roles. Dr. Zúñiga is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma business school academic honor society.
Dr. Zúñiga holds FM faculty appointments at the departments of Family Medicine at UC Davis School of Medicine, Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and St. George's University School of Medicine. He continues to teach FM residents and medical students one day per week.
Dr. Zúñiga works as a Medical Director for California Health & Wellness, a Managed Care Medi-Cal health plan that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Corporation. He has responsibilities in Utilization Management, Case Management, Quality Improvement, and other operational areas of the health plan.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- II, Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- at - Large Member
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative, ( Ex - Officio )
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
Dr. Núñez de Ybarra works at the State of California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in its Chronic Disease Control Branch as a Public Health Medical Officer III coordinating California Wellness Plan Implementation efforts. Jessica currently serves as President of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association. She is past President of the California Academy of Preventive Medicine.
She previously served as a Public Health Medical Officer III in the CDPH Center for Infectious Diseases coordinating public health training and emergency response. She is the former Deputy Public Health Officer in Kern County Department of Public Health and worked as Director of its Office of Public Health Preparedness. She is also presently a volunteer Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Davis (UCD) School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences. She has served as a lecturer in UCD Chicano/a Studies Program. Dr. Núñez de Ybarra was selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2009-2010.
Dr. Núñez de Ybarra has her Medical Doctorate from UCD and received her degree of Master in Public Health in Health Services Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is Board Certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. She lives in Sacramento, California with her husband Steven J. Ybarra, JD and their son Thomas Arturo Ybarra.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Large Member
Job Titles:
- Immediate past President
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Treasurer
Dr Arévalo is a board-certified family physician with a long and prominent reputation as a teacher, researcher and administrator. A graduate of Stanford Medical School, he completed his residency and clinical research fellowship in family medicine at University of California San Francisco. Dr. Arévalo has practiced medicine in numerous settings, including several community clinics and a multi-specialty medical group. He has also served on the faculty of the UC Davis Medical School for the last 20 years.
As a full-time faculty member at UCD his research focused on reproductive health, gestational diabetes, and Type 2 diabetes. His work led to numerous publications, the most notable, a 1988 Journal of the American Medical Association paper that helped revise national policy in screening for Hepatitis B in Pregnancy. He was also the director of the Department's Medical Student Education Program and was named the recipient of the 1994 U.C. Davis Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was the first winner of the California Latino Medical Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Latino Health Issues in 1992. While at Davis he was also Instructor-of-Record and primary physician consultant for Clinica Tepati, a student-run primary care free clinic serving underserved patients in Sacramento's Alkali Flats, a role he proudly held for 16 years.
Dr Arévalo has also been a consultant to the Department of Corporations and the lead physician for the Perinatal Outreach Unit for Electronic Data Systems, the Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary.
As a member of the statewide Board of the American Diabetes Association California Affiliate, he worked with the Department of Health Service's Diabetes Control Program as one of the original members of the California Diabetes Steering Committee that created the Diabetes Coalition of California. As the first chair of the Guidelines Committee he led the effort to establish and promulgate Consensus Basic Diabetes Care Guidelines through CCHRI that are now widely accepted across California.
More recently he has been the Northern California medical director for Prudential Health Care, United Health Care, Blue Cross and Turtle Health Plan. Prior to his role at Sutter, Dr Arevalo was the Senior Vice-President for Medical Services for Health Plan of the Redwoods, a 78,000-member non-profit community health plan in Sonoma County.
Dr Arévalo completed the California Healthcare Foundation/UCSF Center for Health Professionals Leadership Program in 2005. He is the Founder and Immediate President/Chair of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association and the Vice-Chairman of the California Medical Foundation's Network of Ethnic Physicians Organizations.
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- II, Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Medical Student Representative ( Ex - Officio )
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- II, Medical Student Representative
Job Titles:
- Secretary of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Secretary of the Board of Directors