UAHS Office of Student Engagement & Career Advancement
When
Where
Health Sciences Innovation Building, Room 322
1670 E. Drachman St., Tucson, AZ 85719
Event Description
Please join Dr. Adalberto Renteria, MD as he details his career journey as Medical Director and shares valuable advise on Medical School.
This event is in-person only.
Presenter Details
Dr. Renteria came to Napa Valley, California when he was seven years old, immigrating with family from Jalisco, Mexico in 1961. He is of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry. His Indigenous roots are from the P’urhepecha or Tarascan Native Peoples of West Central Mexico.
He grew up working in the wine grape fields of Rutherford, California, where his father managed a vineyard that produced world recognized wines. He attended the local St. Helena school system. During his High School years, he was a varsity letterman in football, basketball, baseball and played multiple instruments in the band. His senior year he was Student Body President.
Dr. Renteria graduated with Honors from High School and received an academic scholarship to attend Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Biology. He received his MD from the University of California School of Medicine at Los Angeles in 1987. He completed his internship and Residency in Family Practice at UCLA affiliated Hospitals. In 2008 he completed Dr. Andrew Weil’s Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dr. Renteria has over thirty years of experience as a Medical Administrator, Clinical Educatorand Clinician. He has held positions as Chief of staff, Medical Director, Clinical Professor/Instructor in environments including Community Health Centers, Ambulatory Commercial Systems, Hospital Commercial Systems, Academic Training Programs, and Native American Health Systems in the United States. His teaching appointments have includedmultiple Medical Schools; U.C. San Francisco, Stanford University, U.C. Davis, the University of Arizona, and the Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine teaching programs, that included Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Medical Students, and Resident students. He has been the Medical Director for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona since 2005.
He has been married since 1979 to Dr. Tamis H. Renteria, and Anthropologist and Writer whom he met at Stanford University. Dr. Renteria’s family still lives in the Napa Valley in Northern California. His father, Carlos Renteria, managed the Usibelli Wine Grape Ranch in Rutherford, California, producing grapes for highly respected Napa Valley wines for over fifty years.