GreciaSantaella MéndezMD(She/Her)

Loma Linda VA Clinical Internal Medicine Chief Resident

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I am a Clinical Internal Medicine Chief Resident at the LLVA with experience in academic and clinical research, community outreach, and leadership regarding volunteer experiences and coordination of educational activities for peers. A hard worker and highly motivated resident, committed to life-long learning and peer and personal growth with an interest in Gastroenterology.

Currently leading research regarding barriers for screening colonoscopies in a county hospital with a significant underserved population. I also have undergraduate experience with literature and philosophy, permeating to an interest in humanism in the medical field.

Loma Linda University Health Education ConsortiumResidency, Internal Medicine, 2021 - 2024
Universidad Central del Caribe School of MedicineClass of 2021
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus BS, Biology, Cum Laude, 2012 - 2017

Poster of Distinction Digestive Disease Week, 2023
Howard Hughes Undergraduate Student Research Stipend Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2016
High School Valedictorian Escuela San Germán Interamericana, 2012

Abstracts/Posters

Implementation of a gastroenterology hospitalist system on GI bleeding outcomes in a county hospital, a single center retrospective study
Gandhi, D.,Santaella-Mendez, G., Tong, A., Imam, D., Solaimani, P., Thiruvengadam, N., Serrao, S., Digestive Disease Week 2023, Chicago, IL, USA, 5/7/2023
Crossbreeding maps for the discovery of genetic variants associated to diabetic nephropathy
Santaella-Méndez, G; Martínez-Cruzado, J.C., Howards Hughes Medical Institute, 5/2017
Loss of function mutation on CCBE1 as a possible disease etiology in Puerto Rican populations
Santaella-Méndez, G; Serrano-González, J; Martínez-Cruzado, J.C., Simposio Subgraduado de Estudiantes de Biologia UPRM, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 5/2016