Luis Lovato, MD, FACEP
Health Sciences Professor - Department of Emergency Medicine UCLA School of Medicine, Professor - UCLA School of Nursing, Chief Medical Information Officer - Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
About
Dr. Lovato is a founding member of Project SEMILLA (Strengthening Emergency Medicine Investing in Learners in Latin America), a non-profit with a mission to improve emergency health care capacity in Latin America through education, system organization, and improved access to technology. The initial focus of Project SEMILLA has been on Nicaragua, the second poorest county in the Western Hemisphere. In partnership with the National University of Nicaragua, Project SEMILLA has developed free, resource appropriate training programs for health care providers in cardiac resuscitation, bedside ultrasound, and trauma, and have trained Nicaraguan physicians to independently organize and teach these courses.
Dr. Lovato became a nationally recognized educator as an editor for Emergency Medicine News with monthly columns entitled Living with the LLSA and Journal Scan. He has lectured nationally on the topic of Emergency Medicine Board Review since 2004 and speaks on the topic regularly at the ACEP Scientific Assembly. He also serves as chair of the Audio Digest Emergency Medicine Board Review course and is releasing a second edition in early 2017.
Dr. Lovato trained at UCLA in emergency medicine and internal medicine and recently became board certified in clinical informatics. He presently serves as the physician lead for the order sets team on the DHS installation of Cerner with the goal of standardizing and optimizing care delivered to all DHS patients. Additionally, he is on the team implementing DHS’s upcoming population health solution (Cerner HealtheIntent) which will provide physicians with real-time scorecards to measure their empaneled patient's overall health and provide suggestions on how to most efficiently improve it. This solution will also provide data on key health measures required by California’s Public Hospital Redesign & Incentives in MediCal (PRIME) program. He has an interest in using technology and informatics to improve health disparity in disenfranchised populations.
Research interests: immigrant health, health literacy, technology development
Affiliations: www.projectsemilla.org