Author Bio

Dr. Aliza

Enabling better relationships between girls and their doctors.

A widely recognized medical expert, Aliza A. Lifshitz, M.D. is committed to enabling better relationships between Latino patients and their physicians and improving medical education in the Latino community. Dr. Aliza's private practice in internal medicine is at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

She founded and chairs the Doctora Aliza Foundation.  The foundation's mission is to increase the number of Hispanic health professionals being educated in the United States through medical and nursing school scholarships and outreach to High School guidance counselors.  Dr. Aliza is also the Editor-in-Chief of the recently launched VidaySalud.com, the largest source of health information and wellness tools in Spanish on the Web.

Dr. Aliza is dedicated to helping U by Kotex* reach and empower the
Latina community with better information about vaginal health.

Education:
National Autonomous University of Mexico's Medical School
Tulane University
Ochsner Medical Foundation and the University of California (San Diego).

Accolades:
One of the 25 most influential Latinas, People en Español, 2009
National Hispanic Business Women Association's "2008 Women of the Year Award for Corporate Responsibility" recipient

Features:
Univisión TV Network
Primer Impacto
El Consultorio de la Doctora Aliza
People en Español
Ser Padres
La Opinión
Latina
Prevention En Español. Executive Publisher