About

Dominga Padilla, MD, is an Associate Professor and the Medical Director of the Department of Pediatrics - Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Rutgers NJMS. She is a scholar of the Hispanic Center of Excellence (HCOE) and continues to pursue opportunities to empower and advance leadership qualities in both medical professionals and adolescent and young adult community populations. She is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Diversity and Inclusion and served as Associate Director of Cultural Competency Programs at Rutgers NJMS for ten years. As a clinical educator involved in numerous patient-targeted healthcare programs, she provides training and assistance relating to the delivery of patient-centered, culturally sensitive care to diverse populations. Her research interests center heavily on efforts to eliminate health disparities in underserved communities such as the Hispanic or Latino populations. She has been the principal investigator on multiple grants addressing substance use/abuse, domestic violence, sexual health, and HIV care in youths, and has participated in numerous studies investigating causes, screening tools, and intervention methods to address health disparities among minority populations.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Gerontology
• Immunology
• Internal medicine
• Environmental health
• Demography
• Surgery
• Pediatrics

Selected publications

• 72. Potential Barriers to Viral Load Suppression in Adolescents and Young Adults in a Pre-Pandemic World (18-30 y.o.)

  Journal of Adolescent Health · 2022

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Demography
  • Medicine
  • Pediatrics
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• 208. Evaluation of Pre-Procedural Anxiety and Procedural Pain During Contraceptive Implant Insertion - A Pilot Study

  Journal of Adolescent Health · 2020

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Surgery
  PublisherDOI

• Beyond Treatment as Prevention (TASP): Use of a Mobile Unit to Screen for Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Link High-Risk, Negative Adolescents and Young Adults to Prep Services

  Journal of Adolescent Health · 2018-01-17 · 1 citations

  articleSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Training future physicians to screen for and intervene with domestic violence

  Medical Education · 2016-04-13 · 4 citations

  article
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Sari Bentsianov

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  8 shared

• Ritika Tamirisa

  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

  4 shared

• Pearl Akwaja

  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

  4 shared

• Noa’a Shimoni

  4 shared

• Kristyn Brandi

  University of California, San Francisco

  4 shared

• Ping-Hsin Chen

  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

  1 shared

• Michael Gerstmann

  1 shared

• T J Barrett

  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Hispanic Center of Excellence (HCOE) scholar