Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: evelazquez@sdsu.edu
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Biography
Enrique Velazquez, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., is a Multidisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy in Precision Medicine, Precision Public Health, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Genetics, proficient in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health (SPH), College of Health and Human Services at San Diego State University (SDSU); Adjunct Professor in the School of Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Engineering at National University San Diego; and Physician in Tijuana BC Mexico. Dr. Velazquez earned his doctorate in human/medical genetics with a strong focus on statistical and computational genomics for precision medicine at the Department of Human Genetics, GSPH, University of Pittsburgh, and completed his dissertation project at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. He completed two postdoctoral trainings, one in Precision Medicine at the Functional Genomics Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute campus La Jolla, CA and another in autism research at CASRC, Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. He also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology, a Master of Public Health and a certificate in Global Health at the GSPH, University of Pittsburgh. His Medical Doctor Degree is from the UANL Mexico, with Medical Fellowships at Vald’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona Spain, and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA. His research is primarily concerned with integrating clinical and genomic data for Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health. To this end, he applies analyses derived from bioinformatics, statistics, genetics, epidemiology, clinical medicine and public & global health in the areas of Immunology, Cancer, and Neurology.
