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| Enrique Caballero, MD, is the Director of the Latino Diabetes Initiative, Director of Medical Affairs of Professional Education, Staff Endocrinologist and Clinical Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. He is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. |
Dr. Enrique Caballero is truly an "orgullo" for the Hispanic/Latino community. Dr. Caballero has accomplished so much in his career; he developed the Joslin Latino Diabetes Initiative that was launched in the summer of 2002. This is a comprehensive effort that integrates culturally oriented activities in the areas of patient care and education, community outreach, research and professional education. Through his work, Dr. Caballero is committed to identifying effective culturally oriented and community-based strategies that may contribute to the elimination of health care disparities. Thus, his hard work has received local, regional, national and international recognition.
In 2009, Dr. Caballero was the 2009 recipient of the “Alberto Houssay” award by the National Minority Quality Forum for his work on health care disparities and in 2011, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award for the Promotion of Endocrine Health of an Underserved Population.
His research interests include type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention as well as diabetes in racial/ethnic minorities. He is a co-investigator of the National Diabetes Prevention Program, the LookAhead Program and the Diabetes Education Study, all sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Caballero has written various publications on pre-diabetes, obesity, endothelial dysfunction, diabetes in Latinos and the chapter of Diabetes in Minorities in the prestigious Joslin’s Diabetes Mellitus textbook. He is also a reviewer for multiple prestigious medical journals.
Dr. Caballero frequently lectures nationally and internationally in the areas of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and diabetes in minorities. He has been appointed as the chair for the Latino Diabetes Education Program for the American Diabetes Association and has worked closely with other national and international organizations. He is also a tutor of the Culturally Competent Care Curriculum at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Caballero graduated from the National University of Mexico Medical School where he was awarded with the “Gabino Barreda” medal for the highest level of academic achievement in his class. He then completed his residency in Internal medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology at the National Institute of Nutrition in Mexico, and went on to complete a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology in Mexico. In addition, he completed a fellowship program in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the Lahey Clinic/Deaconess Hospital/Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and the Program on Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Enrique Caballero seems to be a great man doing a lot for his people. It even goes beyond his people because his initiative can help communities as a whole regardless of there ethnicity/ race. There are men like that who show that the Hispanic population is doing good in this country. Im sure he gets a lot of respect from his peers and had to go through many obstacles to get where he is today. You chose a great person to research and I hope he accomplishes much more through his initiative for the American people as a whole.
ReplyDeleteNice! Dr. Enrique Caballero is indeed a great scholar and huge leader in this field of medicine. It takes a lot of dedication and effort to reach where he is and more than that, to accomplish and provide the community with all the resources and help they need. It is of great honor to have such stallions as scholars in the field of medicine. And I'm sure that he is indeed highly respected among the hispanic community as an orgullo!
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