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Dr. Maria Díaz-González de Ferris received her medical doctorate degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, a master’s degree in public health as well as a PhD in the field of epidemiology from the University of Texas School of Public Health. She completed her Pediatrics training at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, TX, and her Nephrology fellowship at the University of California San Diego.
In 2006, Dr. de Ferris founded and is the director of University of North Carolina Healthcare Transition Program called STARx (www.med.unc.edu/transition), which teaches healthcare transition preparation to adult-focused care, self-management skills and disease knowledge among adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions. Dr. de Ferris’s laboratory has created tools to measure healthcare transition (TRxANSITION Index and The STARx Questionnaire) that have been used in 13 countries and translated into 9 languages. In 2007, Dr. de Ferris also founded the International and Interdisciplinary Healthcare Transition Research Consortium (Tweeter handle @HCTRCNow).
Dr. de Ferris has around 200 publications (ORCID #0000-0003-1694-886X) with interdisciplinary collaborators from across the world (top 5% for citations of their work in Doximity) and has received multiple honors and awards. Most recently voted by staff and patients as the 2024 UNC Super Star Provider. She strives to create interventions that address gaps in health self-management and promote better adolescent and young adult outcomes.
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