Ray is a family physician from Chicago dedicated to serving the global Latinx community. Dr. Mendez is the founding physician of MiMedico, a primary care clinic located in Chicago’s predominantly Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen. Dr. Mendez also works at the Emergency Department Extension at Ingalls Memorial Hospital and serves as a Health System Clinician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Mendez takes annual trips to work in Nicaragua with aspirations of creating a sustainable, community-run primary care clinic in the country.