Associate Chair of Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York
Dr. Olivares is an internist–psychiatrist at the University of Rochester who serves as the Assistant Chair of Diversity, Inclusion, Culture and Equity, the Director of the Medicine in Psychiatry Services and Director of Lazos Fuertes; mental health program for Latinos all within the Department of Psychiatry.
Since graduating from the combined Medicine-Psychiatry residency program at the University of Rochester, Dr.Olivares has overseen the delivery of comprehensive medical care to complex patients in both the inpatient Med-Psych unit (IMIPS), which she founded in 2007, and its sister outpatient primary care practice, MIPS. Since 2000, she is Medical Director of Lazos Fuertes, the only Spanish language program of its kind, providing mental healthcare to Rochester's Latinx population through a team of bicultural/bilingual professionals.
She has remained committed and passionate about the delivery of care for underserved complex populations, with a specific focus on the severely and persistent mentally ill (SPMI), developing services that seek to improve the healthcare disparities these patient populations experience. Her mission remains to affect the functional lifespan of SPMI populations through evidence based patient centered preventive care practices.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
