The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) “Healthy Chicago” podcast featured Olga Garcia-Bedoya, MD, FACP, an Internal Medicine Specialist at UI Health, on an episode discussing cervical cancer in Spanish.
Garcia-Bedoya specializes in adult medicine, particularly in diabetes, hypertension, chronic disease management and women’s preventive health. She also serves as Medical Director for the Institute for Minority Health Research (IMHR) at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she oversees standardized clinical examinations and biospecimen collection for large-scale National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research projects.
During the podcast, host Geraldine Luna, MD, and Garcia-Bedoya and discuss cervical cancer, how it affects Latinas, early detection and prevention.