Faculty

Background and Expertise :

Dr. Aragones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences. He earned his medical degree in his native country of Peru, at the University Of San Martin De Porres in Lima. He served as an Intern at the Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza and completed a fellowship at New York University School of Medicine in a Center for Disease Control sponsored program in Medicine and Public Health Research. Dr. Aragones obtained his masters degree at New York University School of Medicine.

His research interest involves immigrant populations and cancer health disparities as well as chronic care in these populations. He is working on projects related to colorectal cancer screening among Latinos, cancer screening referrals among immigrants and the impact of the Chronic Care Model in the Latino immigrant population. Previously, Dr. Aragones conducted research to evaluate the impact of trained interpreters on the immigrant population's utilization of colonoscopy for cancer screening, and the factors that determine physicians' referrals of first generation immigrant patients to cancer screening and clinical trials.

Area of Study:

Immigrant Health:

Almost 14% of the U.S. population is foreign born and approximately 45% of New York City's population. These populations come from diverse countries from all around the world. Immigrants face legal, economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers to healthcare, which lead to racial and ethnic disparities in health. My worked has focused on immigrant populations and clinical outcomes, specifically in the area of cancer screening and prevention. I previously worked in projects related to colorectal cancer screening referral among Latinos in primary care clinics, a trial to increase colorectal cancer screening among Latinos in a primary care clinic, and a project to determine barriers for cancer screening among primary care providers in the community serving Haitian and Chinese patients.

Courses Taught:

CHSC 5202: Issues in the Health of Immigrant Populations

Current Projects:

Understanding Barriers for HPV Vaccine and its implication for Policy: A study of Mexican parents in Puebla, Mexico and New York, USA

Programa de Investigacion de Migracion y Salud (PIMSA), the Health Initiative of the Americas, University of California Berkeley This program will examine barriers for HPV vaccine among children of Mexican parents in New York City and in Puebla, Mexico, as well as understand how migration affects and modifies these barriers. Role: Principal Investigator

Publications:

1. Aragones A, Trinh-Shevrin C, Gany F. Cancer Screening Practices among Physicians Serving Chinese Immigrants. J of Health care of Poor and Underserved (In Press)

2. Shah NR, Aragones A, Gany F. Language proficiency and referral for screening colonoscopy in an urban population. J of Immigrant and Refugee Studies (In Press)

3. Aragones A, Schaefer EW, Stevens D, Gourevitch MN, Glasgow RE, Shah NR. Validation of the Spanish translation of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC) survey. Prev Chronic Dis 2008;5(4).

4. Gany F, Trinh-Shevrin C, Aragones A. Cancer screening and Haitian immigrants: the primary care provider factor. J Immigr Minor Health. 2008 Jul;10(3):255-61.

5. Aragones A, Gany F. Letter to the Editor Regarding Aranguri et al. [Letter]. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006; 21:12