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Sara Diosdado-Ortiz, MBA

Director of Admissions

Sara Diosdado-Ortiz, MBA is the Director of Admissions at the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at USC. She completed her Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resources Management at the University of La Verne in 2015. She has been with the program for over 10 years and has a passion for recruiting students that want to serve medically underserved communities.

In 2020, Ms. Diosdado-Ortiz was a key part of the team to help fund students scholarship for disadvantaged students from a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. She has expanded the admissions team bringing in innovative strategies for recruitment through leveraging social media, video storytelling and through virtual events.

She is passionate about mentoring and supporting pre-PA students in their pursuit of their career goals. She enjoys seeing students matriculate, their success in the program and watching them come back as alumni.

Dec. 20, 2021

Season 1: Episode 25: USC PA Program

We speak with Claire Norman, MSJ and Sara Diosdado-Ortiz, MBA about the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine for the University of Southern California. We talk about their focus on diversity, leadership, and technol...

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