Advisory

Our Advisory is a distinguished group of professionals and students representing healthcare, education, business, and non-profit organizations across the San Joaquin Valley of California. Their purpose is to help ensure the relevance of the ROAD Conference for students across the San Joaquin Valley. They do this by lending their expertise and time to discuss current trends and identify needs among pre-health/pre-med/public health college students, as well as the review of conference session proposals. Together, they provide support and exposure to the ROAD Conference through their professional networks.

Name

Title

Organization

Contact

Emy Lopez Phillips, EdD

Chair, ROAD Conference 

Associate Director, Latino Center for Medical Education and Research

Director, UCSF Fresno Library

UCSF Fresno

[email protected]

Brandy Ramos Nikaido

Director, Public Affairs, Communications and Government Relations

UCSF Fresno [email protected]
Kenny Banh, MD, FACEP Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Education Fellowship Director
UCSF Fresno [email protected]
Ivan Gomez, MD Chief of the UCSF Fresno Family & Community Medicine Residency Program UCSF Fresno [email protected]
Thelma Hurd, MD Director of Medical Education UC Merced [email protected]
Rosa Manzo, PhD Associate Director of Medical Education UC Merced [email protected]
Erica Robbins Director of Student Services & Pre-Health Advisor, School of Natural Sciences UC Merced [email protected]
Lilia De La Cerda, MPH LSAMP & HCOP Coordinator/Director Fresno State [email protected]
Sylvia Miller Ed.D, RN, FNP

Department Chair, Associate Professor

Fresno State

[email protected]

Omar Guzman, MD EM FacultyDirector of Undergraduate Medical Education Kaweah Delta [email protected] 
Ben Duran, EdD Executive Director of the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium CVHEC [email protected]
Angel Ramirez   CVHEC [email protected] 
Virginia Madrid-Salazar   CVHEC [email protected]
Shantay Davies-Balch, MBA

Maternal Child Health Director

March of Dimes

[email protected]

Venise Curry, MD Consultant The Climate Center [email protected]
Michael Galvez, MD

Director, Pediatric Hand and Upper Extremity
Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Valley Children's Healthcare

Valley Children's Hosptial [email protected]
Jasmine Dilworth Pre-Med Student UC Davis 
Doctors Academy Alumni
[email protected]
Juan David (JD) Garza Associate Program Director UCSF Fresno AHEC [email protected]
Summer Connery CME Events Specialist UCSF Fresno [email protected]
Grace Carlson Manager  UCSF Fresno SJV PRIME [email protected]
Barbara Anderson Communications Specialist UCSF Fresno [email protected]