ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥

When Dr. Luis Castellanos was a resident at UC San Diego School of Medicine, he noticed there weren’t many Spanish-speaking physicians on the faculty, even though Latinos comprise about a third of the city’s population. Occasionally, the Mexican-American cardiologist found himself translating for his colleagues – a task that continued when he returned to join the staff in 2010.

“I was keenly aware of the lack of diversity issue and knew it was a problem we needed to address,” said Castellanos.

Last year, he was selected to be the UCSD Department of Medicine’s first director of diversity in medicine and faculty outreach, a position focused on increasing the number of Latino, African-American and Native American residents and faculty at the hospital and medical school.

UC San Diego is not the only medical school that knows it needs to do more.

According to the