Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, John Sealy School of Medicine
PI, Center of Excellence for Professional Advancement and Research

Dr. Pérez received her medical degree from the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico and completed her residency training in PM&R at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, and began her clinical service in Monterrey, Mexico. She returned to Houston to complete her doctorate in public health at the University of Texas – Houston School of Public Health, Houston.

She is the Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, and the Principal Investigator for the federally funded UTMB Center of Excellence for Professional Advancement and Research. She holds faculty position as an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine – Geriatric and Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Perez has served students, residents, and junior faculty as a career advisor, mentor and career success coach. She has over 20 years of experience attracting and recruiting promising students and faculty into medicine and other health care careers and has served in all capacities of the admissions process. She has many years of experience providing professional advancement opportunities to underserved junior faculty. She has been successful in being awarded state and federal grant funds to support undergraduate, medical student, and junior faculty training programs. She is also known for introducing and creating academic opportunities to all students, Spanish clinical experiences through the creation of the Bilingual Health Scholarly Concentration. As the PI of the Center of Excellence, she will lead the $2.74M center and pilot programs and activities with the intent of providing additional resources for underserved populations and increase representation in healthcare to mirror the population they serve.