Victor Cisneros, MD
Chief Community Health Officer @ Eisenhower Health
Dr. Victor Cisneros is the Chief Community Health Officer at Eisenhower Health and an emergency medicine physician whose work focuses on health equity, population health, and expanding access to care for underserved
communities throughout the Coachella Valley. He leads system-wide community health initiatives addressing social drivers of health, including food insecurity, housing instability, transportation barriers, language access, addiction medicine, and behavioral health integration.
Dr. Cisneros serves as Medical Director of Street Medicine and Mobile Clinic and is the Founder of the Eisenhower Food Insecurity Program and Mobile Unit Initiative. He founded the Eisenhower Mobile Care Clinic, the only mobile clinic in the Coachella Valley to incorporate point-of-care ultrasound technology, bringing direct medical care, screening, treatment, social service linkage, and community partnership support to unhoused, uninsured, underinsured, and medically vulnerable populations. His work bridges emergency medicine, public health, and community-based care delivery so patients can receive care closer to where they live and before medical and social needs worsen.
He is also the Program Director of the Social Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Fellowship at Eisenhower Health, where he trains physicians in health policy, population health, street medicine, addiction medicine,
advocacy, and community-centered care. He also directs the Community Medicine and Health Equity medical student elective and the Eisenhower Medical Research Associate Program (EMRAP), the first undergraduate medical clinical research mentorship program in the Coachella Valley. Through these programs, he is helping build a local healthcare workforce pipeline while expanding clinical research and mentorship opportunities for students committed to serving the region.
Dr. Cisneros earned his medical degree and Master of Public Health from the University of California, Irvine, where he was part of the Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community (PRIME-LC). He completed emergency medicine residency at UC Irvine, served as Chief Resident, and completed a Research Fellowship in Population Health and Social Emergency Medicine. He is dual-board certified in Emergency Medicine and Public Health, with additional training in street medicine and medication for addiction treatment.
Dr. Cisneros holds academic appointments at the UC Riverside School of Medicine and the California University of Science and Medicine. Nationally, he serves as Chair of the Latin American/Hispanic Health and Education Committee for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, At-Large Director for CAL/AAEM, Section Editor for the Health Equity Section of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, and serves on Society for Academic Emergency Medicine committees focused on fellowship approval equity, and inclusion.
His scholarship and leadership have contributed to peer-reviewed publications, national presentations, policy discussions, and community-based programs focused on food insecurity, language access, homelessness, street medicine, behavioral health, and health equity. His work has been recognized with the 2026 SAEM Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine Visionary Early Career Award, the 2025 Coachella Valley Trailblazer Award, the 2024 Western Regional SAEM Best Junior Faculty Abstract Award, and Houston Foundation support for
Eisenhower Health’s Mobile Care Clinic.
Across his clinical, academic, and community leadership roles, Dr. Cisneros is committed to building sustainable models of care that reduce structural barriers, strengthen community partnerships, mentor future healthcare
leaders, and improve health outcomes for historically underserved populations in the Coachella Valley.