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Physician Entrepreneurship
Dr. Peter Valenzuela
Family medicine, CMO at Mercy Medical Group
Dr. Peter Valenzuela who is a family medicine specialist currently based in California where he is Chief Medical Officer for Mercy Medical Group. He attended medical school at UT Southwestern in Dallas and completed his family medicine residency at John Peter Smith Hospital. Dr. Valenzuela spent four years as Assistant Dean for Clinical Affairs and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He enjoys hiking, reading, and wine tasting in addition to cartooning. Dr. Valenzuela is the creator of Doc-Related, a web-comic that follows the experiences of physicians, staff, and administrators working within a large health system. He takes a satirical view of the challenges of practicing ambulatory medicine today, with topics including patient satisfaction, provider satisfaction and performance, quality, and compliance.
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Dr. Jill Grimes
Board-certified family medicine physician
Dr. Jill Grimes is a board-certified family medicine physician with a passion for preventative medicine. She earned her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed her family medicine residency in Austin, Texas. From co-authoring medical textbooks to serving as a clinical instructor in academic medicine, Dr. Grimes is very much involved with medical studies. She authored her first book titled "Seductive Delusions: how everyday people catch STDs" published by Johns Hopkins. From her nearly 3 decades of experience in family medicine and college systems, she wrote her award winning book that perhaps she is best known for titled “The Ultimate College Student Health Handbook: Your Guide for Everything from Hangovers to Homesickness”
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