Alejandro Aviña-Cadena, MD, MPH

Alejandro Aviña-Cadena MD, MPH (Dr. Aviña, He/Him) is a first-generation Mexican-American physician, born and raised in Los Angeles. He is a current second year Emergency Medicine resident at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and a proud product of the public school system and community college. After he transferred to a 4 year university, he spent the next few years at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he received his Bachelors of Science, completed a Post-Bacc program, completed a Masters in Public Health and completed his medical degree as a leader in UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC). Dr. Aviña is a first-generation Mexican-American physician and his lived experiences served as a motivation for his work in health equity. In addition to serving as the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) chapter president as a medical student, PRIME-LC president and conducting research on food insecurity and Dr. Aviña spearheaded UCI School of Medicine’s first 4-year longitudinal Social Determinants of Health curriculum where he worked with a number of key stakeholders to incorporate his curriculum into every major educational experience at UCI’s School of Medicine. Now in residency, Dr. Aviña is a co-president for BMC’s Emergency Medicine Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) program in addition to conducting research/quality improvement projects on incorporating a patient’s social context to their plan of care in the ED and has worked on a number of diversity/health equity projects that have promoted program recruitment and resident well-being. Now almost 2 years living in Boston, Dr. Aviña and his wife recently expanded their family and are excited for where the next few years will take them.