Dr. Glenn Flores

Dr. Flores is Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, Director of General Pediatrics, the Judith and Charles Ginsburg Chair in Pediatrics, and the Director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship at UT Southwestern and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He is on the editorial boards of Ambulatory Pediatrics and the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, and a member of the Committee on Pediatric Research for the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the Expert Panel for the Department of Health and Human Services Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide, recently provided a Congressional Research Briefing, and he has testified in the United States Senate on Latino health and the Hispanic Health Improvement Act. He was an invited speaker at the National Summit on America’s Children convened by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. He has served as a consultant and national advisory committee member for the American Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, Sesame Street Workshop, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the US Surgeon General. He received the 2006 American Academy of Pediatrics Outstanding Achievement Award in the Application of Epidemiologic Information to Child Health Advocacy. He has published 95 articles and book chapters on a variety of topics in such journals as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, and the Lancet, including many papers that address racial/ethnic and linguistic disparities in children’s health and healthcare.