Speaker: Alfredo B. Cuellar Barboza, MD

Title: Mayo Clinic – UANL Collaboration and the Complex Landscape of Latin American Populations

Introduction: 

Alfredo Cuellar-Barboza is the Vice-Chair of Education and Director of the Center of Affective Health at UANL, based in Monterrey, NL, Mexico. The first international site to be accepted as a center of excellence for the National Network of Depression Centers. He has collaborated with Mayo Clinic’s Department of Psychiatry for more than a decade since completing his research fellowship in Rochester, MN. His primary research focuses on bipolar disorder (BD) genome-wide studies and the impact of cardiometabolic disorders in BD. He is also a founding member of the Latin American Genomics Consortium and Co-Chair of the Bipolar Disorder Group, as well as the special interest Cross-Populations Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recognize Latin America as a region and population marked by diverse genetic admixture, contrasting environments, and healthcare disparities.
•  Assess how the lack of Latin American representation in research reduces the portability of precision medicine and increases healthcare disparities.
• Utilize the Mayo Clinic Bipolar Biobank collaboration with UANL as a template to reduce gaps in genomics research and healthcare disparities.

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TRANSCRIPT
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