Dr. Arcelia Guerson-Gil

Dr. Guerson-Gil is currently an Internal Medicine resident at Einstein Albert College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, USA. She graduated from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico where her interest in public health started. As a physician caring for patients in the Bronx, NY, she appreciates the profound impact obesity has on her patients’ quality of life. A rising Gastroenterology fellow at Stony Brook University, Arcelia began her career as a researcher investigating how obesity led to poor outcomes on patients’ diagnosed with COVID pneumonia.

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Obesity and COVID-19

On Health

COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.25 million human lives since December 2019 when the SARS-CoV-2 emerged. It has been demonstrated that obesity is an risk factor… Read more »