Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management,
and Community Partnerships
Columbia University
Director, Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities
(CHUM)
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Olveen Carrasquillo is principal
investigator of the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities
funded by the NIH National Center on Minority Health and Health
Disparities (P60). His research interests focus on
health insurance, access to care, minority health, health and
disparities. In particular several of his studies have focused
on insurance coverage and its impact on minority health. He was
one of the first to investigate how the rise in the number of
uninsured was primarily among the minority population and to highlight
on a national level the health insurance crisis facing certain
immigrant subgroups. He has also examined language barrier problems
in emergency rooms, investigated the gaps in Medicaid and Medicare
coverage for minorities and the quality-of-care issues that affect
minorities under managed care plans. Carrasquillo is also director
of the Community Liaison core of the Columbia Center for the Active
Life of Minority Elders (CALME), an NIA Resource Center for Minority
Aging Research (RCMAR) grant (P30).
Carrasquillo is the director of the
General Medicine Fellowship Program at Columbia, chair of the Minorities
in Medicine Interest Group of the Society of General Internal Medicine
and past president of SGIM’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter. Born in
Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx, Carrasquillo is a practicing
internist, who treats predominantly Latino patients in Washington
Heights in upper Manhattan. |
