Who We Are
Latino Medical Student Association
The Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) is a network of students, alumni, and health professionals whose mission is to promote the development of Latino students through educational, volunteer, professional and networking opportunities to foster diversity, higher education, and the improvement of the Latino community. At the LMSA-West region, we represent Latinx medical students and other allied health professionals across 11 states: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. We have active chapters in 10 of those 11 states. The West Region of LMSA represents approximately 17% of all medical students who identify of Hispanic, Latino, or of Spanish origin at allopathic medical schools in U.S. states per 2017-2018 enrollment data.
Learn more about us by reading our mission, learning our history, meeting our leadership, meeting our advisory board, and getting to know our chapters.
Our Chapters

University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
Arizona

University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix
Arizona

AT Still School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
Arizona

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
California

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
California

Keck School of Medicine of USC
California

Touro California
California

Stanford University School of Medicine
California

UC Davis School of Medicine
California

UC Irvine School of Medicine
California

UC Riverside School of Medicine
California

UC San Diego School of Medicine
California

UC San Francisco School of Medicine
California

Western University of Health Sciences
California

Oregon Health & Science University
Oregon

University of Utah School of Medicine
Utah

University of Washington School of Medicine
Washington

Touro Nevada
Nevada

University of Nevada School of Medicine
Nevada