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Supervising Physician
New Orleans VA Medical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Manny Guajardo is a Staff Physician in Infectious Diseases at the New Orleans VA Medical Center. He graduated from the Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in June 2021, at which time he began an appointment as Instructor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases at Baylor College of Medicine, with a concurrent appointment as an Advanced Fellow in Health Services Research at the VA Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety. After June 2022, he moved to New Orleans, where has transitioned into his new role.
He is originally from South Texas. He attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, and completed internal medicine residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Through those experiences, he became interested in the infectious diseases that disproportionately affect marginalized populations, particularly HIV.
He is passionate about medical education and improving care for people with HIV (PWH). He is interested in utilizing novel approaches – such as telehealth and social media – to achieve these ends. His career goals are to become a clinician-educator who works to improve the lives of PWH and to make an impact on the HIV epidemic while teaching the next generation of physicians. He aspires to be an expert on the intersection of HIV, alternative care delivery models (such as telehealth), and underserved minority populations (especially Latino/a and Hispanic populations).