Ethics Center Director of Bioethics is on a Quest to put Care Back into Health Care
A near-death trauma and immigrant experience informs Guadalupe Hayes-Mota’s work developing ethical frameworks for all corners of the health care industry. Santa Clara Magazine learns more in conversation with Markkula Center Director of Bioethics, Guadalupe Hayes-Mota.
He went from an isolated childhood spent indoors and in fear of getting hurt to an adolescence navigating a foreign medical system in a foreign country. It was a difficult several years, Hayes-Mota says, but all of it shaped his mission to make health care work for more humans. “From those experiences, I have deep insight into immigrant and rural health care, what it means to be in vulnerable positions and not have access to necessary services,” he says. “It established my own personal ethics, about how I see health care and what I think health care should be.”
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethics, featured in Santa Clara Magazine.