Cassandra Villegas, M.D., MPH

Cassandra Villegas, MD MPH is an Attending Surgeon at Weill Cornell Medical Center in the Division of Trauma, Burns, Critical, and Acute Care Surgery.  She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where she was a President' Scholar and received the Teaching Excellence award.  She remained at Stanford University as an instructor and doing neuroscience research before joining Teach for America to teach high school science in Los Angeles Unified School District for five years.   There, she won the Most Inspirational Teacher Award before leaving education to attend Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  As a medical student, she completed her MPH at Columbia University M...