{"id":1270,"date":"2015-05-12T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?page_id=1270"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:21:08","slug":"latino-medical-student-association-lmsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/student-affairs\/md\/student-activities-groups\/latino-medical-student-association-lmsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\">LMSA seeks to strengthen the Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\u2019s Latino community by creating a space for students to share their diverse experiences and backgrounds, by raising awareness about the health issues faced by the Latino population in Boston and the U.S. and by creating mentorship and networking opportunities for medical students. LMSA also seeks to create service opportunities for any student interested in working with the Latino community as well as for students interested in language immersion. As part of the national LMSA, our chapter communicates with other LMSA chapters in Boston and in the Northeast in order to further our common goals.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19429\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-19429 size-full\" alt=\"BUSM\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/BUSM.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/BUSM.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/BUSM-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/BUSM-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine Latino medical students exchanging ideas with visiting faculty from the Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a National University (UNPHU), in the Dominican Republic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19441\" style=\"width: 1630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" class=\"wp-image-19441 size-full\" alt=\"IMG_2331\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2331.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2331.jpg 1620w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2331-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2012\/12\/IMG_2331-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine Latino medical students flanking Dean Ortega on his receiving recognition as a distinguished alumnus of the UNPHU.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LMSA seeks to strengthen the Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\u2019s Latino community by creating a space for students to share their diverse experiences and backgrounds, by raising awareness about the health issues faced by the Latino population in Boston and the U.S. and by creating mentorship and networking opportunities for medical students. LMSA also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"parent":622,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129119,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1270\/revisions\/129119"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}