University of NorthTexas Health Science Center
Dept. Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health
3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, EAD-711B
Fort Worth
TXUSA
76107
Biographical Sketch: Carlos A. Reyes-Ortiz, MD, PhD, became Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health at Fort Worth on June 1, 2008. Prior to coming to UNTHSC, he was a Fellow and Research Scientist at the Sealy Center on Aging, Department of Internal Medicine and Assistant Professor at the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He received his MD degree in 1982, and Family Medicine residency training in 1987 at the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia. He was a fellow in geriatric medicine at the Red Cross Hospital, in Madrid, Spain, in 1988 and at the Medical College of Virginia, in Richmond, VA in 1994-96. He was a clinical geriatrician, created a geriatric medicine program, and edited-authored a textbook in geriatric medicine in his university in Colombia until 2002. He completed a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine and Community Health, at the UTMB (2002- 05), and was trained in health disparities research related to aging and cancer. His recent research has been focused on disparities related to health insurance status and access to cancer screening or other preventive services among the older Latino populations in the United States and Latin American and the Caribbean countries.