Natalia Cruz Alvarez, MD

Natalia Cruz Alvarez, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician who earned her medical degree from Universidad Central del Caribe in Bayamon, PR, graduating cum laude, and completed family and community medicine residency training at Penn State Health in State College, Pennsylvania. Her research includes studies on women’s health and contraception at Penn State Health FCM outpatient clinic in State College, Pennsylvania, San Juan Municipal Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Hospital Universitario Ramón Ruiz Arnau in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. She also wrote about familial hypercholesterolemia at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pennsylvania, and presented scholarly work in Hershey, Pennsylvania, San Juan and Bayamon, Puerto Rico. She speaks English and Spanish.