Mario Pacheco, M.D.

Mario F. Pacheco, M.D., is a Board Certified family physician and the founding director of the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program, a rural training track in Santa Fe, NM sponsored by the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine. A 1986 graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Dr. Pacheco completed his residency in family medicine and fellowship in Health of the Public at the University of New Mexico. He subsequently worked as a community health center physician at La Familia Medical Center in Santa Fe. He is a diplomat and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. In 2000-2001 he was awarded a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in Washington D.C. where he worked in the office of United States Senator Jeff Bingaman. He subsequently served as a District Health Officer for the New Mexico Department of Health prior to resuming the residency directorship from 2002-2012. He currently serves patients at CHRISTUS St Vincent Pojoaque Primary Care. He serves as the Associate Vice President for Community Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and is the director of the Health Extension Rural Offices for UNM Health Sciences Center, a strategy to translate the well-established Cooperative Extension Service Model from agriculture to health and thus extend expertise and resource from the academic health center into the community. In 2006 he was the recipient of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Pacheco currently serves on many national boards and committees.