Dr. Andrea Caballero

Dr. Caballero, originally from Guatemala, has been making her way north since completing high school and college in the vibrant city of New Orleans, LA. Before beginning medical school, she worked with local organizations as a Spanish-English medical interpreter and a community outreach advocate and educator in post-Katrina New Orleans.  During medical school at Louisiana State University, she spent her first summer as an intern with the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, MD performing research on opioid receptors and her second year working as a lead at the student run homeless clinics.  Dr. Caballero remained local to complete her Internal Medicine residency where she was exposed to a variety of patients, in particular, a robust TB and HIV patient population.

Combining her interests for global health, disparities in medicine, and marginalized communities, she went on to pursue Infectious Diseases, moving to Portland, OR, for fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. After fellowship, she relocated to Soldotna where she was the first Infectious Diseases doctor on the Kenai Peninsula. She has since moved to Anchorage where she is in private practice providing both inpatient and outpatient consults at the state’s largest referral hospital.

She has been the Denali College Head since 2021.