Biography

Vicente Morales Oyarvide, M.D. M.P.H., is an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and serves as Chief Medical Resident.

Dr. Morales Oyarvide earned his medical degree at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico. He then completed research fellowships in surgery at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, pathology and thoracic oncology at Harvard Medical School, and medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He completed internal medicine residency training at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He holds a master's in public health in quantitative methods from Harvard University.

Dr. Morales Oyarvide serves on the Program Evaluation Committee, the REDI Committee, and the Clinical Competency Committee at UT Southwestern.

Dr. Morales Oyarvide is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

As a volunteer, Dr. Morales Oyarvide served on the COVID Family Outreach Program at Parkland in 2020. He worked with volunteer residents and fellows to make calls to family members of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit.

Dr. Morales Oyarvide's research interests include pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and racial equity in medical care.

Education

Medical School
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (2010)
Graduate School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2015), Public Health
Residency
UT Southwestern Medical Center (2022), Internal Medicine

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American College of Cardiology (2022)
  • American College of Physicians (2020)