Biography
As the senior associate director for Project ECHO, Struminger leads ECHO’s international team, including the recruitment and development of ECHO partners in Africa.
Dr. Struminger graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with a master's degree in Medical Anthropology. He earned an MD at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Struminger was an internist and public health practitioner for six years with the U.S. Indian Health Service on the Navajo Indian Reservation; he also served six years with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the country director in Cote d’Ivoire and Vietnam.
He came to the University of New Mexico in 2014 as a senior associate director with ECHO and an associate professor of Internal Medicine in the Department of Infectious Diseases. His clinical practice is based at UNM’s Truman Health Services, a community-based HIV clinic.