Victor A. Lopez-Carmen
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen (born 1994 in Tucson, AZ), also known as Waokiya Mani in the Dakota people and Machil in the Yaqui language, is a health equity and anti-racism in medicine advocate. He is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Indian Reservation, and is also of Yaqui, Irish, and Mexican ancestry. He is the first enrolled member from the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe to attend an Ivy League University and the first documented Native American listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Healthcare.[1]
Biography
As of 2022, Victor is a medical student at Harvard Medical School (HMS). As a medical student, Victor was appointed by former City of Boston mayor Marty Walsh to represent Indigenous interests on Boston’s COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force[2] and founded both Translations for our Nations[3][4][5] and the Ohiyesa Premedical Program.[6][7][8] In 2021, he was first Native American student at Harvard[9] to win the Association of American Medical Colleges,[10] recognizing health equity leadership in five U.S. medical students nominated by their medical schools each year.
Prior to medical school, Victor earned his Master of Public Health on a Fulbright Program Scholarship from Western Sydney University in Australia, where he received an honorary fellowship, and his Bachelor of Science in health sciences and chemistry with magna cum laude honors from Ithaca College. As a Fulbright Scholar, he gave a TEDx Talk, provided commentary to ABC News[11] and won the Lois Roth Endowment[12]. In 2019, he was elected co-chair of the United Nations (UN) Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, the official caucus representing Indigenous youth in the international arena. Through this role, he continues to advocate within the UN system for Indigenous rights and health, and has spoken at the UN on numerous occasions. In 2019, he clerked for the United States House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the U.S., where he organized legislative hearings on violence against Indigenous women and Indigenous mental health in boarding schools.
Lopez-Carmen also helps bring Indigenous health disparities to the forefront of public discourse. His contributions include three published books, academic publications, and features in the BBC News[13], The Boston Globe[14], Teen Vogue[15], the The New England Journal of Medicine|New England Journal of Medicine[16], The Lancet, and the UN News Centre[17]. For his work, he has received numerous honors including being named a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar[18], Boren Scholar[19], Udall Scholarship[20], and a Native American 40 Under 40 honoree[21].
Most recently, Victor has been inducted into one of Harvard Medical School's oldest social and academic clubs, The Aesculapian Club, is a member of the Association of Native American Medical Students (ANAMS), and was invited as a member of the White House, Office of the Vice-President's Health Equity Roundtable Series.
References
- ↑ "Victor Lopez-Carmen". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force created". Boston.gov. 2020-04-09. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "COVID-19 Information". Translations For Our Nations. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ September 26, Julia SklarUpdated; 2020; Comments, 4:00 a m Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. "Harvard medical student knocks down a big barrier to COVID-19 info - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
{{cite web}}:|first3=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "UBC student's project translates COVID-19 information to world's Indigenous languages | Globalnews.ca". Global News. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "FLIP - OPP". www.the-flip.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Today, Indian Country. "Bringing health equity to Indian Country". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "New effort to help Native American pre-meds pursue physician dreams". American Medical Association. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Writer, Liz Mineo Harvard Staff (2021-10-07). "Indigenous student awarded Nickens Medical Student Scholarship". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Nickens Student Scholarship Award Recipients". AAMC. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "When an exciting opportunity at an elite boarding school turns into a 'distressing experience'". ABC News. 2018-11-24. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Victor Lopez-Carmen". The Lois Roth Endowment. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Threatened tribes 'come in peace' to NYC". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ January 24, Victor A. Lopez-CarmenUpdated; 2021; Comments, 3:00 a m Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. "Where are all the Native American medical students? - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
{{cite web}}:|first3=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Nast, Condé. "Victor Anthony Lopez-Carmen". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Foxworth, Raymond; Redvers, Nicole; Moreno, Marcos A.; Lopez-Carmen, Victor A.; Sanchez, Gabriel R.; Shultz, James M. (2021-12-23). "Covid-19 Vaccination in American Indians and Alaska Natives — Lessons from Effective Community Responses". New England Journal of Medicine. 385 (26): 2403–2406. doi:10.1056/NEJMp2113296. ISSN 0028-4793.
- ↑ "FEATURE: Generation at risk - UN Forum urges action to halt indigenous youth suicide". UN News. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Supporting Indigenous Communities' Resilience in the Face of COVID-19". ALI Social Impact Review. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "Native American Student at Ithaca College a Double Winner for National Scholarship Honors". Ithaca College. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ Lee, Tanya H. "It Takes a Village to Raise a Doctor; 2 Yaqui Students Win Udall Scholarships". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
- ↑ "NCAIED Announces 2018 Native American "40 Under 40" Award Recipients". nativetimes.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
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