Biography
Dr. Lizzeth Alarcon serves as the co-director of the Community Engaged Physician courses, where students learn to identify and address the social determinants of health. She supervises interprofessional student teams during household visits through the Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP). Additionally, she facilitates small group learning sessions in the Clinical Skills courses and the Family Medicine Clerkship.
Dr. Alarcon also provides patient care and supervises medical residents in the Family Medicine Residency Program at Borinquen Medical Centers, a federally qualified health center in Miami.
She is an active member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
See research publications and more on FIU Discovery.
Areas of interest
Preventive health, health equity, language-concordant care, women's health, medical education
Education
- Residency, Family Medicine, Boston University Medical Center
- M.D., Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- B.A., Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC