Event Title
Keynote Speaker: Luis Lagos
Presentation Type
Event
Location
Boise Conference Centre - East
Start Date
28-10-2019 9:00 AM
End Date
28-10-2019 10:00 AM
Description
Luis Lagos is the Community Outreach Program Manager for Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI). He was born in Honduras, Central America and holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Total Quality Management. He has been a Community Health Worker/Promotor for over 13 years and has extensive experience working with the CHW/Promotores model. He is the current Chair of the Idaho Community Health Worker Association. In 2019 he was selected as a National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) Ambassador, representing CHWs in the State of Idaho. Only 20 Ambassadors were selected in the process nationwide. While working for FMRI he has developed a screening tool for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), successfully tracking and referring patients to existing programs in the community, especially patients who are suffering from lack of access to healthcare. More recently, since 2016 he has been teaching the cohorts for Idaho State University (ISU), CHW training program.
Recommended Citation
Lagos, Luis, "Keynote Speaker: Luis Lagos" (2019). Pacific Northwest Chapter of MLA Annual Meeting. 22.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/pncmla/2019/Monday/22
Keynote Speaker: Luis Lagos
Boise Conference Centre - East
Luis Lagos is the Community Outreach Program Manager for Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI). He was born in Honduras, Central America and holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Total Quality Management. He has been a Community Health Worker/Promotor for over 13 years and has extensive experience working with the CHW/Promotores model. He is the current Chair of the Idaho Community Health Worker Association. In 2019 he was selected as a National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) Ambassador, representing CHWs in the State of Idaho. Only 20 Ambassadors were selected in the process nationwide. While working for FMRI he has developed a screening tool for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), successfully tracking and referring patients to existing programs in the community, especially patients who are suffering from lack of access to healthcare. More recently, since 2016 he has been teaching the cohorts for Idaho State University (ISU), CHW training program.
