The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is excited to announce that Yohualli Anaya, MD, MPH, has joined its KL2 Career Development Program. Her award period began on July 1, 2024. She joins Dr. Jo Wilson and Dr. Vincent Ma in the 2024 cohort.
The three members of the new cohort join seven continuing scholars from previous award cycles who remain supported by ICTR KL2 awards, part of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards program. (Learn more about Anaya’s 2024 cohort peers here.)
As part of the KL2 program, Anaya will benefit from 75% protected time for research, cutting-edge mentoring, and comprehensive career development training over the next two years.
More about Dr. Anaya
Anaya is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Her KL2 research, titled “Translating Trust: A Comprehensive Study on the Barriers, Facilitators, and Impact of Trust in Healthcare Among Latino Immigrants with Chronic Disease,” seeks to uncover the factors influencing trust in healthcare systems and the resulting delays in care for adults with chronic diseases.
The project’s findings will contribute to developing a trust conceptual model tailored specifically for the Latino immigrant context. Ultimately, this work aims to inform an intervention strategy to enhance trustworthiness in healthcare systems by systematically assessing the contextual factors that affect trust in healthcare settings.
During her KL2 award, Anaya will be mentored by Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Dr. Bruce Barrett and Professor of Medicine Dr. Christie Bartels.
Prior to her involvement with the KL2 Scholars Program, Anaya was a member of ICTR’s STRIDE program (Success Together Reaching Independence, Diversity and Empowerment) during the 2022-23 academic year. Housed within ICTR’s Collaborative Center for Health Equity, STRIDE is a mentored professional development program designed for early-career faculty in the translational research workforce whose research focuses on addressing health disparities and improving health equity.
Additionally, we are pleased to note that Anaya has been named the 2024 National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Fellow to Advance State Health Policy. The two-year fellowship aims to provide talented, early-career health science scholars from Wisconsin with the opportunity to experience and participate in evidence-based health care or public health studies that improve the care and access to care of patients in domestic and global health care systems.