Violet Perez Siwik

Biography

During her time as an academician at the University of Arizona in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the College of Medicine (UA COM), Dr. Siwik has been involved in both undergraduate and graduate medical education. She has served as a mentor for the UA COM Societies Program. The twenty societies mentors function as clinician educators in the College of Medicine, and have the responsibility of teaching essential clinical skills, modeling and teaching professionalism, and serving as advisors to small groups of students longitudinally throughout their medical education.

Dr. Siwik has also performed the role of the Director of the Family and Community Medicine clerkship. Under this role, she worked to enhance and update the curriculum, advise students, and supported the faculty on any clerkship issues. Under her leadership, the clerkship became one of the most highly evaluated during the recent student survey performed as part of our recent LCME accreditation site visit.

On the graduate medical education level, Dr. Siwik has taught on our maternal child service, and precepted in the family medicine center. She has demonstrated a great deal of clinical innovation in the area of childhood obesity, and has been a co-investigator on several grants in this area.

As an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Siwik provides career advising, including student development and student advising and counseling. She works continually to address students’ needs and interests to in order to best serve them.

She has also served as the Co-Chair for the UAHS Faculty Diversity Advisory Group and the Co-Chair for the UAHS LGBTQ+ Interest Group. 

Dr. Siwik is a UA COM alumnus and a native of Tucson.

Degrees

• M.D. Medicine
• University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States
• B.A. Biology
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States

Awards

• Grobe Outstanding Third Year Resident
• Arizona Academy of Family Physicians, Fall 1994
• Scholarship-Proficient Medical Record Completion
• American Academy of Family Physicians, Fall 1993
• Gold Humanism Honor Society Faculty induction
• GHHS, Spring 2022
• 2019 Outstanding Diversity Ally Award
• Fall 2019