Greater San Antonio Healthcare Diversity Summit

Dr. Linda Grace Solis is the Interim Director of Student Diversity, Inclusion, Wellbeing, and Professional Development at UTHSCSA School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University. Her dissertation focused on the leadership language President Abraham Lincoln used in his public life. While researching Lincoln’s views on race and slavery, she came across the website for Harvard’s Implicit project and immediately became fascinated with the idea of unconscious bias, its formation in each of us, its impact on each of us, and how it might be mitigated. Dr. Solis has since gained a certificate from the Unconscious Bias Learning Lab and has used her expertise to present to faculty and student groups. Her goal is always to help learners turn the flashlight inward to consider their own biases and the impact these biases have on their everyday lives.

Dr. Janie Canty-Mitchell is a native of Sumter, South Carolina with 40 years of experience as a professional registered nurse. Her career includes experiences in psychiatric/mental health nursing, public health nursing, supervision and administration, program development, project management, coalition building, teaching, and research. Community partnerships have been a core component of her public health nursing practice, teaching in academic settings, and research and scholarly endeavors. She earned a diploma in nursing from Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in 1971 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University in 1979. Later she matriculated at the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida earning both a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN 1988) and a PhD in Nursing (1993). She is dedicated to education and lifelong learning as evident from her 24 years of teaching, research, and service in higher education in Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, and now Texas. Dr. Canty-Mitchell's activities in academic settings have included teaching at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels. She has taught courses in community/public health nursing, family and population health nursing, health policy, leadership and management, professional role development, research, community health outreach: service learning, child and adolescent health disparities, and doctoral dissertation seminars. In collaboration with community organizations and interdisciplinary groups, Dr. Canty-Mitchell has partnered with both undergraduate and graduate students to develop, plan, and implement health interventions designed to promote child and adolescent health and decrease health disparities. Projects have included grief and loss counseling for juvenile offenders; parenting programs to incarcerated women with children; family strengthening programs to promote healthy behaviors in school-children; asthma education programs for minority, low income, and migrant children and families; and parenting and child health programs at risk families. Dr. Canty-Mitchell has presented at local, regional, national, and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, journals, and books. Her areas of expertise are public health nursing, health disparities, child and adolescent mental health, positive youth development, university-community partnerships, nursing research, grant writing, and administration in higher education. Nationally, she was appointed a charter member and nurse consultant on the Children and Family Study Section, Center for Scientific Review (2004-2008); Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program (2009-2012); and the Leadership America (2012-2013). In August, 2012, Dr. Canty-Mitchell began her appointment as Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health Systems in the School of Nursing at UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio. She was also honored to receive the Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professorship in Nursing by the university. She looks forward to ongoing university-community partnerships to promote health in underserved and diverse populations in San Antonio and the surrounding Texas communities.

Dr. Barbara Aranda Naranjo has been a Public Health Nurse and Administrator for thirty six years and has worked at the clinical and community level with vulnerable resilient populations in the US, sub Saharan Africa and India under the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). For her leadership and work with African‐American and Hispanic populations living with chronic diseases in the U.S. and communities living with HIV/AIDS in sub‐Saharan African and India. She has been honored with two Endowed chairs in Nursing one at the University of Incarnate Word, School of Nursing in San Antonio and the second at Georgetown University in in the School of Nursing and Allied Health in Washington, D.C. She had held positions in Texas hospitals, community based organizations in San Antonio and faculty positions at the University of Texas Medical School, Department of Pediatrics, University of Incarnate Word and Georgetown University. She has had a varied work experience as a Senior Public Health Analyst in the U.S. federal government in the areas of program evaluation, healthcare professional education, training and capacity building, international professional health workforce programs for communities living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and Sub‐Saharan Africa and India. Dr. Aranda Naranjo holds a Doctorate in Community Health Nursing from The University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin, Texas and a Master’s in Nursing in Adult Health Nursing for Incarnate Word Colleges and Bachelors in Nursing from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. She currently is the Associate Provost for Civic Engagement at the University of the Incarnate Word where she oversees the Ettling Center for Civic Leadership and the Sustainability office. The Ettling Center promotes student and faculty community service learning to become familiar with the social needs of their local and global communities. The sustainability office focuses on the care of the environment and developing concerned and enlightened citizens for the care of the world’s resources. Dr. Aranda Naranjo has been married for twenty six years to retired Chief Master Sergeant, Sonny Naranjo and has seven brothers and one sister and many nephews and nieces, which she enjoys mentoring as future leaders. She has had many awards and recognitions but what she likes to be known for is her work with people living with HIV/AIDS, which she still hold close to her heart.

Dr. Cynthia N. Nguyen is Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) Coordinator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice, at the Feik School of Pharmacy. She currently is working with other health disciplines at the University of the Incarnate Word to enhance an interprofessional education model and clinical site that allows students an opportunity to be a part of a patient-centered, collaborative healthcare team. Dr. Nguyen completed her undergraduate work at the University of Texas in Austin in 2007 and earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of the Incarnate Word Feik School of Pharmacy in 2011. Prior to joining as full-time faculty, she worked as a community pharmacist for Walgreens and was an adjunct faculty member for the IPECP team. Dr. Nguyen is a member of several professional organizations, including American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), American Public Health Association (APHA), Bexar County Pharmacy Association (BCPA), Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity, Inc., Phi Lambda Sigma Pharmacy Leadership Society (PLS), and Texas Pharmacy Association (TPA). Her areas of interest include asthma, diabetes, health informatics, interprofessional education, and public health.

Dr. Marcos A. Oliveira is originally from Brazil where he received his undergraduate in Physics and Masters in Applied Physics. He then moved to the US to Purdue University where he received his Ph.D. in Structural Biology, his work at Purdue contributed to the development of a novel antiviral agent pleconaril. He did a post-doctoral training at the Protein Crystallography group at UT-Austin. He then began his career in Pharmacy as a faculty member at the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy. In 2006 he joined the team of Dr. Arcelia Johnson-Fannin and helped establish a new School of Pharmacy at the University of the Incarnate Word. He is an author of over forty scientific manuscripts in peer reviewed journals. He has received funding from the American Cancer Society, Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program, William and Ella Owens Biomedical Research foundation and NIH. He is currently working on the development of novel antibacterial agents in collaboration with biotech companies in San Antonio. In 2009 he was selected by Aetna along with a group of 12 health professionals as examples of Latino contemporary role models and in 2010 was selected for the Academic Leadership Fellows Program of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). The leadership experience provided by AACP and UIW has provided him the tools to initiate an innovative global Pharmacy exchange program involving two private organizations in Brazil (Pharmaceutical company Prati-Donaduzzi, an academic partner in the area of Pharmacy education, PUC-Parana and an American Pharmacy chain H-E-B). The exchange program has provided Brazilian Pharmacy students to learn about Clinical Pharmacy in the US and for UIW Pharmacy students to gain a unique experience in Industrial Pharmacy developing a comparative understanding of FDA and the Brazilian counterpart ANVISA.

Jason Garcia-Treviño attends the Feik School of Pharmacy at the University of the Incarnate Word and is a candidate for graduation in 2018. He graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009 with his Bachelor of Science in Biology. After graduating, he worked as a certified pharmacy technician at an independent pharmacy on the West side of San Antonio before working at a chain retail pharmacy on the South-East side for 3 years. His area of interest is community pharmacy and ambulatory care. Jason is a member of the Student Societies of Health-System Pharmacy (SSHP), American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP), American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), National Community Pharmacist Association (NCPA), and Kappa Epsilon.