Advisory Board profile

Dr. José Alberto Arévalo

M.D., FAAFP

 Is a board-certified family physician with a long and prominent reputation as a teacher, researcher and administrator. He has also served on the faculty of the UC Davis Medical School for the last 30 years where his research focused on reproductive health, gestational diabetes, and Type 2 diabetes.

He was the first winner of the California Latino Medical Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Latino Health Issues.  In addition to serving as the founding Chair of the Latino Physicians of California, he is the Founder and Immediate President/Chair of the Sacramento Latino Medical Association and the immediate past Chairman of the California Medical Foundation’s Network of Ethnic Physicians Organizations. He is the recipient of the Pioneer Award from the National Medical Foundation for his lifelong commitment to improving health care to underserved communities.