Viviana Martinez-Bianchi

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ABOUT VIVIANA MARTINEZ-BIANCHI

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi is a Family Physician. She is President of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) She is a Professor at Duke School of Medicine, and the Director for Community Engagement in the Duke University Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and former director of the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program. She joined the Duke faculty in 2006, after 11 years in Iowa where she was a rural doctor. Prior to joining Duke University she was a fellow in Faculty Development with Emphasis in Caring for Minorities and Underserved Populations at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio in 2006.Martinez-Bianchi graduated from the National University of Rosario, Argentina in 1990 and from the University of Iowa Family Practice Residency in 1996. She practiced in a rural/ industrial town in Iowa for 5 years before joining the faculty at the Genesis Family Medicine Residency in Davenport, Iowa. She is passionate about population health, health disparities, improving health care and health, caring for underserved populations, health and educational equity, social determinants of health, global health, cultural competence through humility, Latin America, and caring for migrant and transnational communities. Within Family Medicine she practices the full spectrum of ambulatory family medicine and has special interests in women\'s health, newborn health, dermatology, urology and mental health.