Leo S. Morales, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor and Assistant Dean, Office of Healthcare Equity, Co-Director of the Latino Center for Health at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Morales received a Doctorate of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from the University of Washington, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Policy Analysis from the RAND PARDEE Graduate School, and his research focuses on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health and the measurement of patient resorted outcomes in diverse population settings.

Dr. Morales is a past recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Minority Foundation Medical Faculty Development Award and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award and, in recognition of his research contributions, he was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2007.