Join your host, Japhet De Oliveira with his guest today and discover the moments that shape us, our families and communities. I'm delighted today with my guest today that I literally heard him speak this morning at a meeting. He was sharing part of his story and I said, "Hey, if I can get you today, I'm going to record you straight away.
If you're brand new to the podcast, we have questions, they progressively become more vulnerable the closer you get to , and the guest gets to choose between one and where they want to go, and share stories and experiences that shaped their life. So I'm going to begin straight away with the first 10, and then I'll hand it over to you.
Could you tell us your name and does anybody ever mispronounce it? Japhet De Oliveira: Brilliant. Could you share with us what you do for work? Erasmo Cortez: Sure. I'm the administrator for grants here at Adventist Health in California and what I do is I run a grants team that we go out and look for funding to help build facilities. We also raise a lot of money to do primary care training in underserved communities. Erasmo Cortez: And just a lot of things that the budgets don't allow for but we're able to go out and get funding that allows us to do these extra things for the communities.
Japhet De Oliveira: That's fantastic. So have you been doing this long? Japhet De Oliveira: You said you actually, you get grants to help get primary care training? Erasmo Cortez: Yes. That's where I started 35 years ago. Some people at White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles called me and asked me to join their team in help writing grants and so we were writing grants for a family medicine residency program. And at the time when that residency program started, there was only one primary care doctor that was certified in all of East Los Angeles, which is one of the largest communities in California.
And since then it's turned into, it's blossomed into a 21 resident And as they're graduating they're trying to capture them to stay within the local market.
