Roy Mendoza
Roy Mendoza is a 3rd year medical student at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine. A Southern California native, Roy received his Bachelors of Science degree in Biological Sciences with honors from California State University, Fullerton. His research during undergrad focused on uncovering health disparities, and he has continued this work as a medical student through multiple grant-funded research projects focused on cutaneous malignancies in undergraduate athletes, Latinx individuals and immunosuppressed / HIV positive populations. In his free time, Roy enjoys volunteering at free clinics throughout the Inland Empire; he recently co-founded an initiative made to provide accessible, skin cancer prevention education in multilingual free clinic settings. Looking ahead, Roy aspires to continue this work, with a particular interest in expanding his research in skin of color dermatology, LGBTQ+ dermatology, and addressing health disparities in cutaneous oncology.