
Melissa Leon
@savvyceviche
🩺Researcher @UNMCCAST | 🌎MPH @UNMC |👩🏻🍳BS @UF | 🇵🇪🏋🏻♀️🎨🏕🥾 • Be Curious • Leverage 💪🏽• Share Joy • Advocate ♿️ #CER #SurgicalDisparities #Equity
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20-12-2017 15:30:51
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Honored to be part of a team focused on increasing diversity, inclusion, and equity of under represented minorities in health professions 🌎 Be the change you want to see! #SpeakForHealth #iamunmc Armando De Alba, MD, MPH, PhD SonjaFranziska UNMC College of Public Health

Powerful lecture on narrative medicine highlighting the importance of patient voice. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 How can we create a culture of storytelling & redefine patient-provider relationships? #PatientEngagement #healthequity MaryaHornbacher University of Nebraska at Omaha @KANEKO1111

So proud of our summer undergraduate students, Jeremey & Alle! 10 weeks of hard work, dedication & new experiences. Keep an out for these rising MD-PhD scholars! #SURP UNMC CAST @Pri_Armijo Laura E Flores, MD, PhD UNMC College of Medicine Dmitry Oleynikov MD


Amazing opportunities arise when we work together! Patients, providers, stakeholders & researcher working towards #RuralPaitentEngagement. Leaving day 2 inspired & grateful Paul_Estabrooks Dmitry Oleynikov MD mentorship! UNMC CAST UNMC College of Public Health #RuralMedicine #PatientVoicesMatter #CARE4U



Stigma barrier to surgery. Challenge your internal views and bias of treating obesity. Joe Nadglowski #PCORI2019 Dmitry Oleynikov MD Vishal Mayur Kothari


Words of wisdom from Giselle Corbie Al Richmond closing keynote #pcori2019. Leverage community strengths. Don’t be afraid to get messy. You don’t need to have all the expertise to move upstream. Focus on partnerships! Katie Brandert UNMC CAST kyle


Yesterday, I met an amazing leader committed to helping patients, caregivers, and stakeholders make better-informed health decisions. Thank you Dr. Joe Selby MD, MPH for sharing your journey & encouraging me to continue #healthequity #patientcentered research. UNMC CAST UNMC College of Public Health


Congratulations @DerekWLahm on your ACS Nebraska Presentation! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Amazing work on rural surgical outcomes. UNMC CAST @Pri_Armijo Vishal Mayur Kothari Dmitry Oleynikov MD America


.Dmitry Oleynikov MD Marsha Morien Thank you for your continuous mentorship throughout this year of leadership development and personal growth. #GPLI UNMC CAST UNMC College of Public Health


The future looks bright for these #Leaders! Follow along and watch us... “Own the fact that we want to do big, bold important things.” -Othello H. Meadows UNMC College of Public Health OneWorld Nebraska DHHS University of Nebraska Medical Center University of Nebraska at Omaha UNMC CAST

Our abstract to Assoc4AcademicSurgery was accepted!👊🏽Excited to present our work at #ASC2020 - Evolution of Big Data in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Research. 🎉Team! @DerekWLahm @Pri_Armijo Bhavani Pokala, MD, DABOM Laura E Flores, MD, PhD Dmitry Oleynikov MD Dr. Schmidt UNMC CAST UNMC College of Medicine


MPH defense 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Highlighting the importance of #breastfeeding across hospitals, community-based orgs, outpatient clinics, and WIC. Do not avoid conflict out of fear, Advocate! - Arianna Crum UNMC College of Public Health Douglas County Health Department



Preserving what we value. There is much to learn about survival and preservation from diverse stories of community resilience, local & global experiences, seismic science, and architectural innovation. - Museum of Anthropology at UBC


