Inez  Cruz, PhD

• Professional Background

  Education

  • 2014 - PhD - Social Work emphasis in Public Health - University of Iowa
  • 2005 - MA - Social Work - Our Lady of the Lake University
  • 2000 - BA - English Literature/ Minor Spanish & AA World Std - University of Iowa

  Appointments

  • 9/2016 - Specialist and Research Operations - UT Health San Antonio, Family & Community Medicine, San Antonio

• Instruction & Training

  • 5/2017 - Present, Visiting Graduate Students, UTSA- School of Social Work
  • 10/2016 - Present, Membership on Supervising Committee, UT Health San Antonio

• Research & Grants

  Grants

  Federal

  Funding Agency CMS Title DSRIP: 1115 Waiver- Family & Community Medicine Advanced Primary Care Project Status Active Period 10/2012 - 9/2018 Role Co-Investigator Grant Detail The Advanced Primary Care is an 1115 Waiver Project funded by CMS and distributed through TSHS. Two projects under DSRIP- APC PIDs 154466 sand 154467. Direct and indirect cost are based on Contract (Direct cost for department)- Indirect cost (10% Deans Cost- 39% IGT).

  State

  Funding Agency Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Title Llama: Igniting and Keeping Primary Care Flame Alive Status Active Period 8/2016 - 8/2018 Role Co-Investigator Grant Detail Kristy Kosub serves as the Project Leader for Internal Medicine, 5% contribution.
  Inez Cruz serves as the Project Evaluator for Family & Community Medicine, 10% contribution.
  The focus of Llama: Igniting and Keeping the Primary Care Flame Alive is on five activities to increase the number of UTHSCSA graduates who enter primary care specialties:

  1) a partnership with the UTSA/UTHSCSA Facilitated Acceptance to Medical Education (FAME) Program to raise awareness about our nation?s need for primary care physicians and expose pre-medical students to the rewards and challenges of primary care careers.

  2) establish continuity mentoring/shadowing relationships with primary care faculty for pre-clinical students beginning at their first class orientation. The mentoring relationship will be continued during the first two years of medical school as part of their longitudinal preceptorship of their curricular requirement and will include resources to support academic success.

  3) establish a support group particularly focused on married and older students whose values and expectations are consistent with a career in primary care at admission.

  4) develop Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics clerkship sites into practices that model value-based and patient-centered care.

  5) establish collaborations with private practices in which medical students in their fourth year can rotate and see innovative patient-centered practices that focus on population health, disease prevention, and value-based care.

   

• Publications

  Dissertation/Thesis

  Cruz II. The lived experience of insulin-dependent diabetes among adult Latinos in a primary care clinic in San Antonio Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa; 2014. 290 p.

  Journal Article

  Ferrer RL, Burge S, Palmer R, Cruz I. Practical opportunities for healthy diet and physical activity: relationship to intentions, behaviors, and body-mass index Annals of Family Medicine 2016 Jan;14. Cruz II, Ferrer RL, Bayles BP, Castilla, Martha, Burge S. Measuring Capability for healthy diet and physical activity annals of family medicine 2014 Jan;12(1):46-56. Bern-Klug, M., Kramer, K.W.O., Sharr, P. & Cruz, I. (2010). Nursing home social services directors? opinions about the number of residents they can serve Journal of Aging and Social Policy 2010 Feb;22:33-52.