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Hector Flores, MD
Family Practice
 
Born in Mexico, Dr. Flores was raised in southern California since the age of eight years old. He attended Sierra High School in Whittier, California and graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in History in June 1977.  Dr. Flores graduated with honors from the UC Davis School of Medicine in 1981 and completed his internship and residency in Family Practice at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles in 1984.
 
Dr. Flores has previously served on the Clinton Health Care Task Force Hispanic Advisory Committee and was a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the National Health Service Corps. He served on the California Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists and has also served on the University of California (UC) Medical Student Diversity Task Force advising the UC on effective ways to recruit and retain students from disadvantaged backgrounds and from ethnic groups known to be under-represented in medicine.
 
Current positions include:
 
  1. Medical Director, Family Care Specialists (FCS) Medical Group

    FCS is the faculty practice for the WMMC Family Practice Residency Program and is comprised of twenty-four family practice physicians, five Physician Assistants and one Family Nurse Practitioner.

    FCS serves approximately 40,000 patients in the East Los Angeles area, over half of whom are low income families and many are uninsured.
  2. Medical Director, FCS Independent Practice Association (IPA)

    The FCS IPA serves approximately 30,000 HMO patients through contracts with seven health plans and is comprised of a network of 230 primary and specialty physicians
  3. Co-Director, White Memorial Medical Center (WMMC) Family Practice Residency Program.

    The residency program is designed to provide family physicians with the training to be excellent clinicians, to gain the skills necessary for successful shortage area practices, to provide culturally responsive health services, and to achieve positions of leadership in the medical community.
  4. Chair, Blue Cross of California Statewide Physician Relations Committee
  5. Member, Blue Shield of California Quality Advisory Board
  6. Member, UC Irvine Advisory Committee on the Program In Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC)
  7. Member, California Latino Medical Association (CaLMA) Board of Directors
  8. Member, CMA Ethnic Physician Organizations Network
 
 
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