Helia Bravo Hollis, MS
Helia Bravo Hollis was a renowned botanist and made great contributions to the study of cacti. She was born in 1901 in Mixcoac, an area in southern Mexico City. In her youth, she was renowned for her achievements, receiving a diploma of achievement from President Porfirio Diaz. In 1919, she entered Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (National […]
Luiz Walter Alvarez, PhD
Dr. Luiz Walter Alvarez was an inventor, American physicist, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for the discovery of resonance particles. Alvarez was born in San Francisco on June 13, 1911. His grandfather and father were doctors. His father took a post at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, […]
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, MD, PhD
Dr. Sara Elizabeth Stewart, born in Tecalitlán, Jalisco, Mexico in 1905, was a researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology. Her father was an American mining engineer and her mother was Mexican. To escape the Mexican revolution, her family moved to the United States in 1911. She received two Bachelor’s degrees (1927) in Home […]
Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ildaura Murillo-Rohde was born in Panama in 1920 before immigrating to San Antonio, Texas, in 1945. She earned a nursing diploma from San Antonio’s Medical and Surgical Hospital School of Nursing (1948). There she began to recognize the disproportionately low number of Hispanic nurses and found that it impacted care delivery for Hispanic patients. […]
Nicole Hernandez Hammer, MBA, MS
At the age of four, Nicole Hernandez Hammer and her family immigrated to the United States from Guatemala. She was then raised in Florida and began a lifelong journey into combating climate change. She received a BS in Integrated Natural Sciences from the University of South Florida (USF), a MS in Biology from Florida Atlantic […]
Cesar Milstein, PhD
Cesar Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1927 to immigrant parents. His father immigrated from Ukraine and his mother was also from a Ukrainian immigrant family. In his early life, his parents sought to ensure their children’s education and encouraged all of them to go to university. In 1952, he graduated with a […]
Domingo Santo Liotta, MD
Domingo Liotta was born to Italian immigrant parents on November 29th, 1924, in Diamante, Argentina. He received his MD (1949) from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, He stayed as a Surgical Resident and went on to obtain his Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery (1953). While his doctorate work was on the Clinical Anatomy of Common […]
Baruj Benacerraf, MD
Baruj Benacerraf was born in 1920 in Caracas, Venezuela to Spanish-Jewish parents. His early childhood was spent in Paris, France where his family stayed until the early 1930s before fleeing back to Venezuela under the threat of the Second World War. Benacerraf’s father was a textile merchant and importer, and hoped his son would follow […]
Carlos Juan Finlay, MD
Born in 1833 in Cuba, Carlos Juan Finlay was a physician and scientist credited with discovering that mosquitoes spread yellow fever. Both of Finlay’s parents were European and he pursued his early education in France. Finlay earned his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1855. During his medical studies, he befriended and […]
SCHEQ Speaking at NCCN Policy Summit
SCHEQ‘s Founder and CEO will be speaking at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Oncology Policy Summit: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cancer Workforce on September 10, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. His panel will be discussing “Maintaining the Committment: Navigating the Policy Landscape to Advance Diversity, Equity, and […]