Biography:Jorge A. Caballero

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Jorge A. Caballero

M.D.
Head shot of Jorge A. Caballero
Jorge A. Caballero (c. 2015)
Born
Mexico[1]
NationalityUnited States
EducationStanford University[2]
BS 2005, MD 2010[3]
Known forCoders Against COVID,[2] and related advocacy work

Jorge A. Caballero is a Mexican-American physician and biomedical data scientist.[1][3][2] Caballero worked alongside a talented team of volunteers who earned national recognition[4] for sourcing data that supports the government-led response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[5] Also, his analyses of COVID-19 data have been the subject of national press coverage[6][7][8][9] and prompted Congressional action.[10]

He is a vocal advocate for social justice. A social media post in which he criticized California's pandemic response made local news; Caballero argued that the state's policies disproportionately risked the lives of racial and ethnic minorities.[11]

Role on COVID-19 response in the United States

According to an article published by Stanford Medicine, Dr. Caballero developed symptoms of COVID-19 shortly after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.[2] Several reports indicate that he co-founded Coders Against COVID to address the need for a national database of COVID-19 testing locations.[2][12][13]

Advocacy

Caballero identified socioeconomic disparities in access to COVID-19 testing in California[14] and helped to establish a link between delayed testing and the disproportionately high case rates in predominantly Black and Hispanic communities.[15] He designed and led a separate analysis which was the first to show that Black and Hispanic communities had less access to COVID-19 testing across the U.S.[6]

Caballero is attributed with the charts and graphs included in a formal letter sent by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith to retail COVID-19 testing providers. In the letter, the Senators sought to understand why the retailers were not always offering pediatric COVID-19 testing in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.[10]

He has also raised awareness of disparities in access to COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment for those living in rural communities[16] and those who are need assistance.[17]

Career

Health Data

  • According to his Stanford faculty profile[3] and 2016 national meeting agenda,[18] Caballero previously served as the Head of Data at a digital health startup called Amino.
  • Caballero was a presenter at the 2016 American Medical Informatics Association National Meeting[19]

Scientific Research

In 2007, Dr. Caballero was among 42 medical students selected for a year-long research stint at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.[20] While at the NIH, he conducted research that aimed to develop a vaccine for various types of cancer.[21][22] Since 2009 his research has involved using large volumes of health data to:

  • predict clinical outcomes in patients with metastatic cancer[23]
  • explore the socioeconomic underpinnings of labor pain[24]
  • identify specific ways to mitigate the impact of healthcare disparities[25]

Education

In June 2005, Jorge A. Caballero graduated from Stanford University with a bachelors degree in chemistry and a minor in biology.[26][1] In 2010, he earned a medical degree with a concentration in biomedical informatics at Stanford University School of Medicine. He then served as a Transitional Year clinical intern at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (San Jose, CA) before returning to Stanford as a resident physician in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine. He was nominated and elected to serve as the Chief Resident for the 2013-2014 program year.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rodriguez, Monica (2016-09-30). "Chaffey High students say, 'Si se puede,' find out why". Southern California News Group. https://www.dailybulletin.com/2016/09/30/chaffey-high-students-say-si-se-puede-find-out-why/. ""Thursday’s assembly included the participation of Dr. Jorge Caballero, a man who came to the United States as a boy, grew up and went to Stanford University, eventually becoming a physician"" 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Erickson, Mandy (2020-08-27). "Stanford physician-programmer creates Coders Against COVID" (in en-US). https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2020/08/27/stanford-physician-programmer-creates-coders-against-covid/. ""A programmer as well as a physician, Caballero quickly co-founded an organization, Coders Against COVID, to create a free, public, comprehensive directory of all of the nation's testing sites."" 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Jorge A. Caballero's Profile | Stanford Profiles" (in en). https://profiles.stanford.edu/jorgecaballero. 
  4. ↑ "App of the Week: COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator" (in en). https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSFEMA/bulletins/2883543. 
  5. ↑ "COVID-19 Testing Sites Locator | Technical Resources" (in en). United States Department of Health and Human Services. https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/technical-resources/resource/8573/covid-19-testing-sites-locator. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Owens, Caitlin (2020-06-23). "People of color have less access to coronavirus testing". Axios (website). https://www.axios.com/minorities-coronavirus-testing-9a6397e4-a7e7-4077-bad2-bbd77fe5d1c2.html. 
  7. ↑ Owens, Caitlin (2020-07-01). "Coronavirus cases skyrocketing among communities of color". Axios (website). https://www.axios.com/black-latino-americans-coronavirus-disparities-31f21d2e-68f9-415e-8e8f-cd2f510652af.html. ""Adapted from Coders Against Covid" (Caballero is the lead of analytics)" 
  8. ↑ Owens, Caitlin (2020-09-05). "1 big thing: Where bringing students back to school is most risky". Axios (website). https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-vitals-4883d184-c273-43d9-9263-50e8d8c31044.html. ""Schools in Southern and Midwestern states are most at risk of coronavirus transmission, according to an analysis by Coders Against COVID that uses risk indicators developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."" 
  9. ↑ Schumaker, Erin (2020-10-16). "The last COVID-free counties in America". ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-free-counties-america/story?id=73443542. ""Data: URISA’s GISCorps, Coders Against COVID, and Esri, 2020. COVID-19 Testing Locations in the United States. Spatial dataset."" 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Warren, Smith Question Top Retail Testing Providers Companies on Lack of Pediatric Testing at Their COVID-19 Testing Sites | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts" (in en). 2020-10-09. https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Coders%20Against%20Covid_Community%20testing%20sites%20by%20age_9.30.20_2.pdf. https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-smith-question-top-retail-testing-providers-companies-on-lack-of-pediatric-testing-at-their-covid-19-testing-sites. "the volunteer group Coders Against Covid has been compiling a national directory of testing locations since March 2020" 
  11. ↑ Batey, Eve (2021-01-25). "California Officially Lifts Its Curfew and Stay-at-Home Order" (in en). https://sf.eater.com/2021/1/25/22248448/california-officially-lifts-its-curfew-and-stay-at-home-order. 
  12. ↑ Etherington, Darrell (2020-03-22). "Volunteer group develops a COVID-19 testing location database for the U.S.". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/22/volunteer-group-develops-a-covid-19-testing-location-database-for-the-u-s/. ""A new group of volunteer coders and medical professionals, including Air Force software organization Kessel Run‘s Chief Data Officer Andrew Kemendo, and data-driven doctor and researcher Jorge A. Caballero, have created a new findcovidtesting.com website, which aims to provide up-to date location info for all testing sites in the U.S."" 
  13. ↑ Reynolds, Jason (2020-03-23). "Coders Building Database Need Health Care Workers to Report Coronavirus Testing Sites So They Can Provide Data to Officials Battling Disease". Star. https://tennesseestar.com/2020/03/23/coders-building-database-need-health-care-workers-to-report-coronavirus-testing-sites-so-they-can-provide-data-to-officials-battling-disease/. 
  14. ↑ Dizikes, Cynthia (2020-07-26). "Richer, whiter Bay Area cities got coronavirus testing quickly. Low-income areas didn't". San Francisco Chronicle. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Betrayal-of-trust-How-coronavirus-testing-15434507.php. "“To see it play out in real time has been the most heart-wrenching,” said Dr. Jorge Caballero, a co-founder of Coders Against COVID and an anesthesiologist at Stanford Health Care. “It comes down to trust, and there was a betrayal of trust. They didn’t move fast enough in the communities where they should have been involved early on.”" 
  15. ↑ Palomino, Joaquin; Dizikes, Cynthia (2020-07-12). "Coronavirus data show growing disparities in income and race in Bay Area" (in en-US). https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Coronavirus-started-as-a-great-equalizer-15402134.php. 
  16. ↑ Schumaker, Erin (2020-10-16). "The last COVID-free counties in America" (in en). https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-free-counties-america/story?id=73443542. ""Is it that they don’t have access?" asked Dr. Jorge Caballero, a clinical instructor at Stanford Medicine, who built a national testing directory that the federal government uses as part of its COVID-19 response effort. "Or are they so remote that they essentially serve as their own version of the NBA bubble?"" 
  17. ↑ Hernandez, Sarah Krouse, Brianna Abbott and Daniela (2021-01-22). "WSJ News Exclusive | Covid-19 Tests Are Still Hard to Get in Many Communities" (in en-US). Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-testing-challenges-remain-for-many-urban-rural-communities-11611320400. "The physical access issue is part of a larger problem, experts said. Beyond that, “there is also the functional access, or the barriers to access,” that are much more widespread and further limit people’s ability to get tested, said Jorge Caballero," 
  18. ↑ Health 2.0. "Health 2.0 And Mad*Pow Announce Final Agenda For HxRefactored" (in en). https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-20-and-madpow-announce-final-agenda-for-hxrefactored-300224526.html. 
  19. ↑ "AMIA 2016 CME/CE Information | AMIA". https://www.amia.org/amia2016/cme-ce. 
  20. ↑ "HHMI Helps Medical and Dental Students Devote a Year to Research" (in en). https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-helps-medical-and-dental-students-devote-year-research. 
  21. ↑ Gameiro, Sofia R.; Caballero, Jorge A.; Higgins, Jack P.; Apelian, David; Hodge, James W. (2011-09-01). "Exploitation of differential homeostatic proliferation of T-cell subsets following chemotherapy to enhance the efficacy of vaccine-mediated antitumor responses" (in en). Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy 60 (9): 1227–1242. doi:10.1007/s00262-011-1020-8. ISSN 1432-0851. PMID 21544650. 
  22. ↑ Gameiro, Sofia R.; Caballero, Jorge A.; Hodge, James W. (2012-02-01). "Defining the Molecular Signature of Chemotherapy-Mediated Lung Tumor Phenotype Modulation and Increased Susceptibility to T-Cell Killing". Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals 27 (1): 23–35. doi:10.1089/cbr.2012.1203. ISSN 1084-9785. PMID 22316209. 
  23. ↑ Caballero, Jorge A.; Sneed, Penny K.; Lamborn, Kathleen R.; Ma, Lijun; Denduluri, Sandeep; Nakamura, Jean L.; Barani, Igor J.; McDermott, Michael W. (2012-05-01). "Prognostic Factors for Survival in Patients Treated With Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Recurrent Brain Metastases After Prior Whole Brain Radiotherapy" (in en). International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 83 (1): 303–309. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.06.1987. ISSN 0360-3016. PMID 22079723. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360301611029178. 
  24. ↑ Toledo, Paloma; Caballero, Jorge A. (2013-12-01). "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obstetrics and Obstetric Anesthesia in the United States" (in en). Current Anesthesiology Reports 3 (4): 292–299. doi:10.1007/s40140-013-0035-4. ISSN 2167-6275. 
  25. ↑ Caballero, J. A.; Butwick, A. J.; Carvalho, B.; Riley, E. T. (2014-05-01). "Preferred spoken language mediates differences in neuraxial labor analgesia utilization among racial and ethnic groups" (in en). International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 23 (2): 161–167. doi:10.1016/j.ijoa.2013.09.001. ISSN 0959-289X. PMID 24703871. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959289X1300126X. 
  26. ↑ "Webinar: COVID-19 and the LatinX Community" (in en-US). https://www.chisite.org/blog/covid-19-and-the-latinx-community. 




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