Biography
Salazar has partnered with a number of non-academic entities such as the NM Department of Health, East Central Ministries One Hope Centro de Vida clinic and Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless (AHCH) to develop partners within our community and real-life learning experiences for students. It is through her collaborative work that Salazar has created a number of sustainable patient-care/community care programs that also serve as student learning opportunities. Salazar is the Coordinator of the Diabetes Clinic at AHCH. Her current clinical work within an interprofessional team allows utilization of her expertise in pharmacy, diabetes, motivational interviewing and relationship-centered patient care. Prior to her faculty appointment at UNM CoP Salazar practiced within an interprofessional team at an endocrinology private practice clinic.
Personal Statement
The ability to hold human connection is the core of our humanity. I believe the innate desire to build relationship is what makes us human and when we do this well with our patients their health care outcomes potential expands without limit. I am passionate about partnering with students to develop their natural interest in 'wanting to help people.' Every pharmacy student enters the pharmacy professional program with this deep interest at heart and it is my greatest joy to not just teach them about helping people through building relationship, but to show them how professional life can be when they build authentic relationship with their patients and with themselves.
Areas of Specialty
Specialization #1 Teaching: Communication and Professionalism
Specialization #2 Teaching: Patient-centered care
Specialization #3 Practice Clinical care within homeless and marginalized populations
Specialization #4 Practice: Diabetes care
Specialization #5 Practice: Substance Use Disorder Recovery behavioral care
Education
PharmD, University of New Mexico, 2004
Certifications
Certification #1 Relationship Centered Communication Facilitator
Certification #2 Motivational Interviewing
Certification #3 Interprofessional Education, course facilitation and curriculum development
Achievements & Awards
-2025 Faculty Preceptor of the Year
-2025 Accepted into the Faculty in Training fellowship for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare. Anticipated completion year: 2028
-I have proven myself to be a forerunner in personally and collaboratively bringing into existence a significant number of sustained programs and activities important to UNM COP and the HSC. Below are a few worth mentioning:
-The format, structure, and curriculum for the series of COP pharmacy practice
learning labs.
-The communication-based course for the COP
-HSC Interprofessional Education program
-UNM main campus, HSC and COP action grounded DEAI values
-Experiential education with a non-UNM entities: One Hope Centro de Vida Diabetes
clinic, Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless, Gateway Center Respite
-All Things Art, a pop-up art exhibit that culturally reinforces the value and importance of creativity in the personal and professional lives of clinicians, researchers, faculty, staff, and students.
The spirit of this list is not to take full credit for the breadth and depth of these sustaining initiatives on the UNM HSC Campus, but rather to draw attention, in this self-reflection, to the muscle of perseverance I have personally developed through the nature of my innovative expertise.
Key Publications
Other
Dominguez-Salazar, Krista, D Ward, Krystal, L 2020 Response to Impact of Students' Strengths, Critical Thinking Skills and Disposition on Academic Success... American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 842, https://www.ajpe.org/content/84/2/7760 Book Chapter Dominguez-Salazar, Krista, D Herman, Alexandra, M Ried, Lyle, D Accepted Motivational Interviewing and Health Coaching with SPs AccessPharmacy
Book Chapter
Dominguez-Salazar, Krista, D Herman, Alexandra, M Ried, Lyle, D Accepted Dialogue with SPs About a New Rx AccessPharmacy
Journal Article
Cone, Catherine, Godwin, Donald, A Dominguez-Salazar, Krista, D Bond, Rucha , 2016 Incorporation of an Explicit Critical-Thinking Curriculum to Improve Pharmacy Student's Critical-Thinking Skills American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, vol. 80, Issue 3, article 41
Languages
- Spanish
Courses Taught
Introduction to Patient-Centered Communication and activities through out the PharmD curriculum reinforcing therapeutic communication and relationship building with patients. I most enjoy facilitating learning about:
Identifying how personal attributes can expand the depths of a health care providers' patient care;
Leading clinically effective and motivating conversations with patients;
Providing patient centered, empathetic, culturally centered health care communication for honoring the unique needs of every individual patient.