Meet our Team
Dr. Katherine Flores, UCSF LCOE Faculty, Director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research (LaCMER).
Greetings! My name is Dr. Katherine Flores. I am a Family Physician in Fresno, California where I work in a group practice providing healthcare to a diverse group of patients. I am also an Associate Clinical Professor with the UCSF School of Medicine and am located at the Fresno Branch Campus.
I serve as the APP faculty lead for the Fresno State and UCM sites. I chose to work with the LCOE APP because of my firm commitment to providing mentorship for students who are interested in pursuing a health profession, particularly medicine. APP offers students exposure to physicians from a variety of backgrounds and in a number of different disciplines and settings. It provides an introduction to the AMCAS application and a step-by-step overview of how to approach it. The program introduces students to health policy and how health policies impact underserved communities, both good and bad. It also demonstrates to students how they can make a difference as health professionals in the health policy arena. Students get exposure to Community-Based Organizations that provide services to communities that intersect with health. Perhaps most importantly, APP students have the opportunity to work with UCSF SOM LCOE staff who are committed to helping them be competitive applicants to medical school, including helping them develop their unique timelines and reviewing personal statements.
What I enjoy the most about being a part of APP is the interaction with students who are committed to and passionate about working with underserved communities in the Central Valley. Si se puede!
Dr. Jazmine Kenny, Health Policy Instructor
Dr. Jazmine Kenny is the Health Policy instructor for the Aspiring Physician Program. She started working with the LCOE as a Public Health PhD graduate student, where she developed the health policy course curriculum. Dr. Kenny has expertise in community-based participatory research, program evaluation, and qualitative research methods. Her experience working directly with San Joaquin Valley CBOs, health providers, and government organizations provides Jazmine with diverse health policy perspectives.
By taking the health policy course, students will learn about the U.S. healthcare system and how laws and policies impact people’s health. The goal of the course is for students to become advocates as future healthcare professionals.
Every summer, Jazmine looks forward to teaching the health policy course and working with a dedicated team invested in helping students find their careers in healthcare. Plus, teaching at a medical school has been a dream of hers!
For more information on the LCOE Aspiring Physicians Program at Fresno State/UC Merced, please contact:
Yoselin G Castillo, Research Analyst
Email: [email protected]
Curriculum & Schedule
The 2025-26 APP program will host its six-week summer program from June 2 - July 11, 2025.
- Introduction to health policy and writing fact sheets
- Work with local community-based organizations
- Introductory MCAT preparation
- How to prepare medical school application and statement of purpose
- Guest speakers and medical school panelists
Fresno State/UC Merced Cohorts
Check out the Fresno State/UC Merced cohorts by year.