Media Advisory: Stanford Hosts Conference Encouraging Latinos to Go to Medical School

“More than 1,000 Latino high school students, undergraduates and health-care professionals will gather at the Stanford University School of Medicine on Friday and Saturday to discuss ways of encouraging Latino leadership in medicine as part of the 22nd annual regional Latino Medical Student Association.

The theme of this year’s gathering is “Creating leadership: Striving to improve Latino health care.” While Latinos now make up nearly 40 percent of California’s population, only 4 percent of physicians are of Latino descent, according to the LMSA. “Teaching Latinos at all different levels how to become leaders will go a long way toward improving health care,” said Geoff Krampitz, one of the conference coordinators and a fourth-year medical student at Stanford. “

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