Karen Jaceldo-Siegl, DrPH, MS

Dr. Karen Jaceldo-Siegl is an Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of Clinical and Applied Sciences Education at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine (UIWSOM). After her academic training in Texas (B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio and M.S. in Nutrition at (UIW), she headed west to further her education. She received her Doctor of Public Health degree in 2003 from Loma Linda University (LLU) School of Public Health in California, with a focused training in nutrition and nutritional epidemiology. She remained at LLU as faculty member, actively conducting nutritional epidemiological research, teaching research methods and public health courses, and mentoring master's, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows. In 2013, she was a visiting scholar at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She is a guest editor and topic editor for Nutrients, a reviewer of several scientific journals, and has served as grant reviewer for regional and international funding agencies.

 Dr. Jaceldo-Siegl joined the faculty at UIWSOM in January 2021. Grateful for her blessings and inspired by UIW’s Mission to “making Christ’s love tangible”, she finds opportunities to apply her skills by incorporating community service and global health perspectives within UIWSOM’s public health-related curriculum. She is committed to building community wherever she is. Locally, she is motivated by public health needs such as reducing food insecurity and improving community health outcomes in demographically underserved and public housing communities in San Antonio and assessing bullying among older adults. In May 2024, she led the institution’s inaugural medical mission to the Philippines. The medical mission team from San Antonio partnered with local medical health professionals and treated over 1,200 people during four days of clinical work in three municipalities located in northern Leyte.

 At UIWSOM, Dr. Jaceldo-Siegl teaches in the MPH, MBS, and Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine programs.

• Dr.P.H. with a focused training in nutrition and nutritional epidemiology, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, California, 2003
• M.S. in Nutrition, University of the Incarnate Word
• B.S. in Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio