Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

Dr. Carrasquillo is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Health Policy and Community Partnerships at Columbia University Medical Center.  He is also Director of the Columbia Center for the Health of Urban Minorities- a $7.5 million NIH Center of Excellence on Health Disparities.

Dr. Carrasquillo’s areas of research include Latino health, health disparities, health insurance, access to care and community based participatory research.  He also leads a grant examining health insurance expansion options for New York State.  He is director of Columbia’s General Medicine Fellowship Program.  He is active in various organizations, including numerous current and past leadership roles in the Society of General Internal Medicine, Physicians for a National Health Program and the National Hispanic Medical Association.   He is co-founder and Vice-president of Latinos for National Health Insurance.

His research has been published in a variety of journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, and American Journal of Public Health.   He is also often called upon by the media to discuss his research as well as health care topics of particular relevance to the Hispanic community including being a frequent guest on Univision and Telemundo.  

Dr. Carrasquillo graduated summa cum laude from the Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education at City College, and subsequently obtained his MD degree from the New York University School of Medicine.  He completed a three-year internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and then completed Harvard’s two-year General Medicine Fellowship and obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.