Dr. Sarah Lopez was born and raised in Orange County, California. She attended medical school at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and business school at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business. She was part of UCI’s inaugural class for the Program In Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC), a program focused on training highly qualified doctors who are culturally competent and dedicated to serving the diverse population of California. After medical school, she moved on to residency at LAC+USC. Following her residency and fellowship training, Dr. Lopez was on the faculty at Indiana University, where she worked in Clinical Quality for the department. She then worked as a community EM physician in Southern California before becoming the Patient Safety Officer for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LA DHS). Dr. Lopez also has a long history of promoting advocacy through education. She started “Una Hora Con La Doctora” through GREEN-MPNA, a grass-root community-based organization in Santa Ana, discussing different health topics with local residents to empower them. She was selected for the competitive California Health Care Foundation’s Healthcare Leadership Fellowship, where her project focused on COVID vaccine education for community members and staff and how to build trust between health institutions and the community. Currently she is the founding Chief Medical Officer for Zócalo Health that uses technology to increase timely access to high quality primary care and that works to eliminate poor health outcomes for the Latino/Hispano community. She is also the proud mother of three little boys, who keep her moving.