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Felipe De Jesus Perez
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
BioFelipe D. Perez is a Clinical Associate Professor who is board-certified as an Anesthesiologist and as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist. He is the Assistant Dean for Diversity in Medical Student Education in the Office of Diversity in Medical Education (ODME) at Stanford University School of Medicine. His parents emigrated from Mexico and was raised in an immigrant working class neighborhood of Long Beach, CA. After receiving his Bachelors at Stanford he dedicated three years to public health policy where he worked for local, state, and national levels of government. He worked for Congressman Henry Waxman, Assemblymember Hector De La Torre, and Senator Alex Padilla, on laws such as preventing homelessness and having restaurants post caloric information on their menus. He returned to Stanford University for his Medical Degree and stayed for residency, pediatric anesthesiology fellowship, and was hired on as faculty at both the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford Hospital. He served as the Chair of the Legislative Affairs Committee for the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) 2021 to 2023. He is involved with leading diversity efforts locally and nationally. He co-chairs his clinical department’s Anesthesiology Diversity Council, he is a steering committee member of Leadership Education in Advancing Diversity (LEAD), he founded CSA's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee, and is the communication chair for the national Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) DEI Committee.
