Latino Patient A Cultural Guide for Health Care Providers

Nilda Chong, MD, DrPH, MPH, has more than twenty years of experience in practice, in training providers in cultural competence, and in leading public health education campaigns in Latin America. She holds a doctoral degree in public health with a multicultural health specialty from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Chong has consulted for the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, directed national health programs for the Ministry of Health in Panama, and taught at the School of Medicine, University of Panama, and at Florida State University. She is the national director of Kaiser Permanente's Institute for Culturally Competent CareChong, Nilda is the author of 'Latino Patient A Cultural Guide for Health Care Providers', published 2002 under ISBN 9781877864957 and ISBN 1877864951.