Nereida Correa, MD, MPH

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Associate Clinical Professor of OB/GYN &
Women's Health and of Family and Social Medicine
Director MIC Women's Health Services
Public Health Solutions
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue, Mazer 104
Bronx, New York 10461
Phone: (718) 430-2792 or (718) 630-7617
Fax: (718) 430-3729
correanereida@aol.com

Nereida Correa is Medical Director of the MIC Women's Health Services of the Medical and Health Research Association of New York. As Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health and of Family and Social Medicine she serves as Education Core Director of the Bronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Health and the Hispanic Center of Excellence at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is a member of the first group of Hispanic Leadership Fellows of the National Hispanic Medical Association and was the editor of the Caring for Hispanic Patients Journal of the National Hispanic Medical Association and of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

She has served as a member of the National Advisory Council for Maternal, Infant and Fetal Nutrition and is on the Advisory Council of Bright Futures for Women of the Division of Women's Health of the Health and Human Services Administration. She has been active in advocacy groups in Albany and Washington DC and in the past several years has been working to promote cultural and linguistic competency in medical school and residency curricula. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine and she participates in teaching of resident and medical students, particularly in the areas of cultural and linguistic competence.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.