Dr. Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Director of Medical Student Research at the HRSA Diversity Center of Exellence at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is a graduate of the New York University College of Arts and Sciences and of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, trained in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and received his Masters of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research as the inaurgural HRSA Health Equity Research Fellow at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is a Primary Care Physician at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Spanish Harlem (Settlement Health) and a Health Services Researcher focusing on understanding the social determinants of Latinx health in the United States.
Dr. Gonzalez’s research aims to understand and leverage social and cultural behaviors to improve the health of diverse Hispanic populations in the United States. Through ongoing collaborations with investigators of the national Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (SOL), the Duke Network Analysis Center (DNAC), and New York Regional Center for Diabetes Translation Research (NY-CDTR), he has explored the heterogeneity of health behaviors and health outcomes of the Hispanic population, with a specific focus on understanding the roles of migration, acculturation and social networks. His research predominantly assesses how these factors relate to inequities in cardiometabolic health, including obesity and diabetes prevention, but has also assessed their relation to COVID-19 and Hepatitis C. Dr. Gonzalez is a scholar of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award Program.