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Cynthia Lopez, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Although my career at UT Health San Antonio began in 2013, I have been teaching medical students and residents since 2002 in the Rio Grande Valley via the Regional Academic Health Center.  UTHSCSA sponsored the Master Teaching Course that sent me on the path to a career in Academic Medicine.  In 2016, a Clinical Safety and Effectiveness course and a Teaching Excellence course improved my skills in teaching and quality improvement. I have authored a number of Pediatric resident teaching modules with specific interests in the areas of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety and Depression, Medical Home, various GI topics, and more recently Transitioning of youth to adult Medical Homes as well as Asthma.  I collaborated with our UHS Pediatric Psychiatrist to develop a curriculum to increase the pediatric mental health workforce. Interdisciplinary courses and teaching have long been personal interests.   June 2019, I organized and was a speaker at a School Nurse Asthma Summit for Region 20 and secured 4 hours of CNE for all attendants.  That same year, our Asthma QI group developed clinically relevant teaching materials that have been included in an AAP package for change around asthma management principles; this was a product of our involvement of in a large hub-based QI project in the state of Texas which I was proud to lead.