Elena Jimenez-Gutierrez, MD, MSc, FACP

Dr. Elena Jiménez Gutiérrez is a published, board-certified Hospitalist who joined UT Health San Antonio as an Assistant Professor/Clinical in September 2018 before rising to the rank of Associate Professor/Clinical in April 2024. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Clinical Laboratory Science with a minor in Chemistry (graduating Summa Cum Laude) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 before going on to earn her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA in 2013 and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the University of London International Programmes in 2021. Dr. Jiménez Gutiérrez completed her Internal Medicine residency (Global health and Underserved Populations Track) at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Montefiore/Presbyterian in 2016. She is a member of several professional organizations including the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association.

When she is not taking care of patients in the hospital, Dr. Jiménez Gutiérrez is volunteering as an outpatient preceptor for Medical Students at San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic and Pride Community Clinic. In addition, she regularly performs pro bono forensic medical evaluations that can corroborate asylum seekers' claims of having suffered torture or persecution and support their application for asylum via Physicians for Human Rights' Asylum Network. During the non-COVID era, Dr. Jiménez Gutiérrez volunteered twice a year with Partners In Health in Chiapas, Mexico, as an outpatient preceptor for newly graduated Mexican physicians during their social service year in rural public clinics. She also served as a faculty advisor to Project Hispaniola, a team of medical students and faculty advisors from UTHealth San Antonio that undertook various clinical and public health efforts each summer in order to serve the rural communities of sugarcane plantation workers and their families surrounding La Romana, Dominican Republic. With respect to programmatic areas, her interests lie in the education of providers in low-resource settings. With the contributions of various internal medicine residents and faculty from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Dr. Jiménez Gutiérrez is working to create an open access, evidence-based, ambulatory care syllabus designed for medical learners caring for people in underserved areas around the world.

Dr. Jiménez Gutiérrez is the recipient of several honors including the "Thomas O'Toole Award" which was awarded for her work with underserved populations. She has served the community by donating her time with several domestic and international organizations including The Addis Clinic, the Birmingham Free Clinic, the Charlottesville Free Clinic, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Medical Student Organization, the Latino Medical Student Association, and the Jefferson Area Children's Health Improvement Program. She was also inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in February 2025.