Juan is a physician-scientist at Stanford University initially recruited as part of the PRISM (Postdoctoral Recruitment Initiative in Sciences and Medicine). He earned his doctoral degree in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). While at UTEP, he served as the coordinator for the “Evidence-based Screenings for Obesity, Cardiorespiratory Disease, and Environmental Exposures in Low-income El Paso Households” research project where he applies his background in medicine and public health. He was awarded the Paso del Norte Health Foundation Fellowship and worked with The Institute for Healthy Living (IHL), his dissertation focused on the effects of air pollution on physical activity and cardiorespiratory health outcomes in residents from low-income communities.