Noah Rodriguez is a first generation Mexican-American doctor from Bolye Heights who continues to inspire those who come from similar backgrounds.
Dr. Noah Rodriguez is like many doctors who got into their profession to help people, but what stands out is his path to medicine is unlike most others."It's a neighborhood that is known for lots of negative influences, lots of gang violence and substance abuse, poverty." said Rodriguez.Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter.
Rodriguez created his path, graduating as valedictorian at Wilson High School, then went to Standford University and graduated from medical school at UCLA. Rodriguez is now paying it forward, leading Kaiser's Hippocrates Circle Program which inspires underrepresented youth, many of them Hispanic Americans like himself, to become doctors.
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