Alejandro Diaz

Alejandro Diaz, MD, is the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Alameda Health System - Highland Hospital, where he also serves as Vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine. He is a general internist who works on the inpatient medicine wards and precepts in the resident continuity clinic. He is a graduate of Universidad Xochicalco school of medicine in Baja California, Mexico, and completed his residency and chief residency at Alameda Health System - Highland Hospital. Born and raised in Miami, Florida to immigrant Cuban parents, he has dedicated his clinical career to serving vulnerable populations, with a special focus on displaced persons, refugees, and asylum seekers. He has previously served as Associate Medical Director of the Highland Human Rights Clinic, Director for Community Outreach for the Department of Medicine, Director of the Highland Hospital Adult Medicine Patient Advisory Council, and is the founder of the Highland Hospital Home Visits program