FORUM

Looking to the Future:
Preparing for the Next Generation
in Health Careers

Speakers

Keynote and State Officials

  • Robert Otto Valdez, PhD, Executive Director, The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy Professor, Family & Community Medicine and Economics, University of New Mexico
  • Senator Jeff Bingaman (invited), United States Senate
  • Alfredo Vigil MD, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Department of Health

Panelists

  • Nancy Martine Alonzo, Assistant Secretary of Indian Education, New Mexico Department of Education
  • Todd M. LeCesne, MPAS, PA-C, Instructional Faculty, University of New Mexico
  • Ron Martinez, Regional Director, ENLACE
  • Valerie Romero-Leggott, MD, Vice President for Diversity, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
  • Charlie Alfero, CEO, Hidalgo Medical Services

Forum Leadership

  • Valerie Romero-Leggott MD, Vice President for Diversity, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
  • Kathy Lopez-Bushnell, RN, Clinical Nurse Researcher, UNMH
  • Heather Balas, President, New Mexico First
  • Charlotte Pollard, Deputy Director, New Mexico First