Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Dr. Carrasquillo is a Puerto Rican born physician who was raised in the Bronx. He graduated summa cum laude from the Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education at City College, and subsequently obtained his MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine. He completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and then completed Harvard's two-year General Medicine Fellowship and obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Carrasquillo joined the faculty at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1997 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy. His areas of research include minority health, health insurance, access to care, and managed care issues. His research has been published in a variety of journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Carrasquillo is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Faculty Scholar and is currently the principal investigator of the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities- a $6 million project funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. He is also the director of the Community Liaison core of the Columbia Center for the Active Life of Minority Elders and co-director of the General Medicine Fellowship Program at Columbia.

Dr. Carrasquillo is active in various organizations, including a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Hispanic Medical Association, advisory board of Physicians for a National Health Program and on various scientific committees of the Society of General Internal Medicine, chair of the Minorities in Medicine interest group and past president of the mid-Atlantic Chapter. At Columbia he also serves on the Internal Medicine Residency Admissions Committee and is very active in minority recruitment.

Dr. Carrasquillo is often called upon by the media to discuss his research as well as health care topics of particular relevance to the Hispanic community including being a frequent guest on Univision and Telemundo. In addition to all of the above, Dr. Carrasquillo remains a practicing internal medicine physician and sees patients two days a week in the predominantly Latino community of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan as well as volunteering in the Hospital's free-clinic for the uninsured.