Omar Guzman, MD, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, born and raised in Visalia, Calif.
During medical school he was enrolled in an enhanced medical school curriculum called the “Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community,” designed to create leaders and physician-activists who will work in underserved Latino communities. He then returned to the valley for residency training at UCSF-Fresno, where he completed his emergency medicine residency program.
He currently serves as a core faculty member for the Kaweah Health Emergency Medicine Residency Program and is the inaugural Chief Health Equity Officer at the Central California Alliance for Health. He is also the director of the Kaweah Health Street Medicine Team, which provides direct care to the homeless population encampments of Tulare County. His research interests are in addressing the social drivers of health through community engagement and advocacy.
