Associate Professor
Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Keila N Lopez, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Section of Pediatric Cardiology at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Lopez is a pediatric cardiologist with expertise in non-invasive cardiac imaging, transition medicine, and health disparities research.
She completed her Pediatric residency at the University of Chicago and her Pediatric Cardiology training at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, where she additionally completed a year of training in advanced non-invasive imaging. Dr. Lopez also completed a Master of Public Health through at the Harvard school of public health as a Commonwealth Fund fellow with a concentration in healthcare management and minority health policy. Her research portfolio reflects a longstanding commitment to addressing health disparities, and she leads research and quality improvement multidisciplinary efforts to better understand the connection between health, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, neighborhood level factors and access to quality healthcare. She is a co-investigator for the Texas Children’s Hospital Policy and Advocacy Center, an executive steering committee member for Diversity and Inclusion at Texas Children's, and a Vice Chair for the Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young for the American Heart Association. Overall, Dr. Lopez seeks to incorporate cardiology, public health, technology and minority health policy in order to develop research initiatives that directly inform health policy and improve the health care of underserved and minority populations.
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Friday, December 16, 2022
4:30 PM – 4:50 PM US Eastern Time