Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture; Director, UCLA/Drew Center of Excellence for Minority Medical Education
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Dr. David Hayes-Bautista is internationally recognized for his research on the culture and health of Latinos,
focusing on the dynamics and processes of the health status of that population. One important outcome of his
growing body of work, and a significant contribution to the field of medicine, was his establishment of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC). CESLAC houses Dr. Hayes-Bautista’s research and provides a significant resource for training medical students, health care providers and public health officials to manage the care of Latino patients effectively, efficiently and economically.
The energetic and inspirational professor teaches a section of the Doctoring course and one on Health in the Latino Population for our medical students. He is also the director of the UCLA/Drew Center of Excellence for Minority Medical Education, which is dedicated to increasing the number of minority physicians in clinical and academic careers. In addition to those responsibilities, Dr. Hayes-Bautista serves on a number of important University, national, regional, local and international bodies. He has an important voice in the national and statewide dialogue concerning the provision and access to health care.
Dr. Hayes-Bautista is also the faculty
advisor for the UCLA/Drew chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association, the pre-medical group Chicanos/Latinos for Community Medicine (CCM) and he is a senior advisor to the California Latino Medical Association.
To date Dr. Hayes-Bautista has produced over 80 publications, including books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, and editorials. His work has appeared in a variety of medical journals including Family Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, Family Practice, Academic Medicine and Salud Publica de Mexico. He has authored over 40 proposals for funded research projects. In addition, he has given over 680 presentations to
medical and lay communities and to government agencies concerned with our nation’s health care delivery system. Dr. Hayes-Bautista has received more than 50 commendations for his work. These include the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Award, the March of Dimes Viva Los Ninos Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Health Sciences Eagle Award, and the Surgeon General’s Hispanic/Latino Health Initiative Certificate.
Dr. Hayes-Bautista, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, earned his Masters in 1971 and his Doctorate in Medical Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco in 1974. He came to UCLA from U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health to head the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center in 1986. He joined the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in 1987. Dr. Hayes-Bautista is married to Maria Hayes-Bautista, RN, MPH who is a principal staff associate of CESLAC. They are the proud parents of one daughter (Catalina) and one son (Diego).
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