{"id":167377,"date":"2020-12-22T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=167377"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:48:26","slug":"primary-care-doc-passion-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/12\/primary-care-doc-passion-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Primary Care Doc with a Passion for Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to Dr. Julian Nieves III<\/a> talk about his thoughts on health care, and it will become obvious he has a connection with underserved populations.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Dr. Julian Nieves, primary care physician at UConn Health, overseeing a medical student’s patient care learning experience. (Tina Encarnacion\/UConn Health photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nieves, who arrived last year, splits his time between UConn Health\u2019s primary care practice and its residency practice, where he serves as a preceptor, or supervising physician.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a nice ecosystem of learning and continual education, not only for the residents and medical students but for myself as well,\u201d Nieves says.<\/p>\n

When conditions permit \u2014 meaning when we\u2019re not in a pandemic \u2014 he also is involved in carrying on UConn Health\u2019s longstanding tradition of providing free care to migrant workers at local farms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s dear to me,\u201d says Nieves, whose father was a migrant farm worker. \u201cI have a special place for that. You\u2019re able to give care to folks that really are just outside of the system of traditional health care. It\u2019s great to be able to provide a bit of a bridge for those workers that may need it. My own interest in economic and social justice is what originally sparked my interest in medicine and in working with underserved communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also was the motivation behind his pursuit of a master\u2019s degree in public health at Harvard and the founding of his private practice in the Greater Hartford area, which he had for six years, and it shapes his vision for health care delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cInnovations in primary care delivery models and digital health technology is a burgeoning field right now,\u201d Nieves says. \u201cI\u2019m in the process of developing that research agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, he\u2019s looking forward to getting back to the migrant farm clinics and bringing students with him, like he was able to do in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to expose and allow students to be a part of a program that allows them to provide some basic services,\u201d Nieves says. \u201cI think it provides inspiration to students and it\u2019s a great learning opportunity. The patients and the students both appreciate it. It\u2019s a win-win situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Connecticut native, Nieves grew up in Meriden. He earned his MD at Cornell University and returned to Connecticut to complete an internal medicine residency at Yale University. He sees patients in UConn Health\u2019s Outpatient Pavilion.<\/p>\n

This story appeared in the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>UConn Health Journal\u00a0fall 2020 issue.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn more about UConn Health primary care physician Dr. Julian Nieves III, along with his connection and passion for caring for underserved populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":167382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-167377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 06:49:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167385,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167377\/revisions\/167385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/167382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167377"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=167377"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=167377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}