Armando R. C. Leon Silva

• Leading medical teams alongside attending physician on general medical floors and supervising interns, medical students, and observers.
• Following patients longitudinally in primary care (outpatient) setting.
• Active member of wellness and steering committees advocating for my fellow residents.
• Medical education directed toward co-residents, students, observers, and nursing staff.
• Participating in Urban Health Track designed to address needs of underserved populations, including social determinants of health. Currently working on health equity project to improve healthcare access for Hispanic/Latino patients.
• Working as principal investigator in grant-funded clinical research project designed to identify issues with antimicrobial prescribing among residents to guide future interventions to improve stewardship.
• Production of recruitment videos for residency program.
• Leading infectious diseases research interest group.

• Worked in translational research developing new point-of-care diagnostic methods for bacterial and fungal pneumonia through GC-MS analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the breath.
• Enrolled patients in the oncology wards, the emergency department, or mechanically ventilated in the ICU, and collected breath samples.
• Implemented screening and approaching methods that increased patient enrollment by 35% within my first five months on the team.
• Coordinated functions of two research assistants at our second center (MGH).-Performed GC-MS analysis of samples for compound identification with MassHunter software.
• Worked with mice for the characterization of volatile organic compounds in exhaled air.
• Planned weekly experiments, distributed tasks, and trained incoming personnel.

Taught students from Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health about the medical interview through weekly group sessions that included activities such as interview practice, vocabulary review, real-time pronunciation, and grammar
feedback, as well as discussions related to Hispanic culture.

• Offered outpatient and inpatient services in adult and children’s medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and minor surgery. Population of over 6000 inhabitants.
• Led a team of twelve nurses, one cook, and three maintenance workers.
• Coordinated pharmacy inventory and wrote weekly and monthly epidemiologic reports.
• Organized health promotion and prevention interventions, including immunizations in school and house-by-house; series of talks and community discussions during Health Week using didactic material and self-written songs; campaign on fighting the HIV-associated stigma.
• Coordinated activities and research projects of medical school interns from my university.
• Created a 2-month internship program for local high school seniors interested in health-related careers in which we covered basic medical concepts. Three of the students went on to enroll in nursing school after graduation.
• Worked with young mothers to encourage prenatal control and hospital birth. Saw a 60% increase in prenatal visits.