Professional Title

Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras, MD

Bio

Dr. Turner-Lloveras is a practicing internist, Executive Director of The Latino Coalition for Health Equity (LCHE) (previously known as The Latino Coalition Against COVID-19 (LCAC19)), and Principal Investigator at The Public Health Institute. After earning his medical degree at The Pritzker School of Medicine, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. As a National Health Service Corps Scholar, he served as a primary care provider at FQHCs in South Central Los Angeles and Skid Row. A founding faculty member of The Department of Medicine Diversity & Inclusion Committee at Harbor-UCLA, he remains committed to increasing diversity in medicine to promote a workforce as diverse as the patients he serves.

Dr. Turner-Lloveras has expertise in transformative care delivery projects harnessing health information technology to reduce disparities in Black and Latino/a communities. He has developed and tested interventions to mitigate digital literacy-related inequalities to improve the use of virtual health care delivery. At the onset of the pandemic, he developed remote teaching round protocols for medical students to facilitate ongoing education and instituted a cross-border virtual family visit program to treat the psychological sequelae from family separation due to hospital visiting restrictions.

In addition to his clinical and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Turner-Lloveras is the Co-Founder and President of SaludConTech, an inclusive ecosystem-building community that provides an entrepreneurial support for Latino/as and other innovators of color. SaludConTech believes those closest to the problem should be developing the solutions. Their mission is to build a diverse cohort of digital health visionaries with lived experience to lead efforts that improves the health and wellness of our own communities.