LOURDES CASTANON

MD, FACS Director, Burn Program Lourdescastanon@surgery.arizona.edu

Lourdes Castañón, is the director of the Burn Program at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson and a clinical associate professor of surgery with the Department of Surgery, Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson.

Dr. Castañón comes to the department from Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, Penn., where she served as an attending surgeon since 2014. Dr. Castañón earned her MD from the State University of New York Health and Science Center at Brooklyn. She then went on to complete residency in general surgery at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, also in Brooklyn. Following residency, Dr. Castañón completed a fellowship in surgical critical care and burns at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and a fellowship in acute care surgery and trauma at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care as well as Advanced Burn Life Support, among other clinical and teaching certifications.

Dr. Castañón is a member of multiple professional societies, most notably, the American College of Surgeons, the Pan-American Trauma Society, the International Society of Burn Injuries, and the American Medical Association. She has authored and co-authored numerous studies on a range of burn-related topics in peer-reviewed journals as well as presented at many national, regional, and local conferences. Dr. Castañón is fluent in both English and Spanish.

SAMARA CUEVAS

University of Arizona samaracuevas@arizona.edu

Samara Cuevas is a first generation Mexican American intern who grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and is a senior at the University of Arizona double majoring in Physiology & Medical Sciences and Nutritional Sciences, with a minor in Biochemistry. She is most passionate in helping underserved communities and people such as her own, which has given her the interest of continuing that path for her medical career. She is interested in applying to medical school and specializing in an area that will allow her to continue her help and volunteering for underserved populations.

Not only did Samara’s inspirations for her aid to these communities came from the hardship her parents face in healthcare, but also from the plenty volunteer opportunities she participates in throughout the semester and summer. Volunteering as a Spanish interpreter at Clinica Amistad and CUP clinics with MexZona, she saw first-hand the challenges many face in the limited access for healthcare and has decided that an ultimate goal of hers is to open such clinic of her own to continue to serve these populations. Being born and raised by immigrant parents, she learned from young how hardworking the Hispanic community can be and plans to continue that mindset for herself to continue to be proud of her own work and make her family proud as well.

⊲ PROJECT

Training/Credentials of Individuals Who Deliver CBT-I to Cancer Survivors: A Literature Review

Samara’s project was a literature review that aimed to better understand the training and credentials of individuals who deliver cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia to cancer survivors within the context of research. A myriad of cancer survivors report sleep disturbance or the inability to sleep. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) has been the gold standard treatment to aid cancer survivors who face these challenges. CBT-I is traditionally delivered in-person with a licensed individual who iscapable of delivering this treatment for the cancer population. To do this work, Samara leveraged five recently published systematic reviews of CBT-I among cancer populations to aid in the identification of appropriate studies for review.