Maggie Arias-Petrel: born in Quito-Ecuador, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Global Professional Medical Consulting; a firm specialized in the areas of Marketing, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships for the Hispanic Market. Ms. Petrel has over twenty years of Medical Practice Management, Marketing, and consulting experience.
Serving as a Practice Administrator for several multi-specialty practices in Las Vegas during the past decade, has allowed Maggie to truly understand the needs of a comprehensive healthcare service and access to the underserved communities in Nevada and California. Ms Arias-Petrel holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Ecuador where she was born.
Maggie is actively involved at a local and national level.
She serves as the Nevada representative on The White House Committee on Aging, the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Summits, and the US Hispanic Chamber Summits and most recently with The Latino Coalition and was invited by US Senator Harry Reid to participate at the Democratic Hispanic Task Force on Healthcare in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Arias-Petrel has been an active member of the Latin Business Association of the Greater Los Angeles Areas where she serves as a Board of Director. She received the 2006 Community Service Award given by the Las Vegas Latin Chamber, the 2009 Senoras of Excellence Award given to Women who have excelled in their professional careers as well as contributed to the enrichment of our community, and also de 2009 Excellence in Advocacy by The Colors of Lupus Foundation. She also serves as a Board of Director of the Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce where as a committee member of La Oportunidad Expo was responsible for increasing vendor participation and developed a Medical Pavilion component, bringing the first Immunization Coalition endorsed by the First Lady of Nevada Mrs. Dawn Gibbons. Since 2008 Ms. Petrel has been directing the International Trading Committee for the Latin Chamber and will host the 2010 Trade Mission to Mexico for the membership.
Her community concern on relation to the current medical crisis with the shortage of qualified medical professionals bicultural-bilingual prompted her to create an strategic partnership between the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, one of the most prestigious and accomplished institutions of Higher Education in Mexico, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, and the Nevada System of Higher Education namely with the University of Nevada-Reno, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada State College, and the College of Southern Nevada to develop nursing programs with direct collaboration from UAG to increase the number of bilingual-bicultural medical professionals. She was invited as a key delegate on Governor Gibbon’s official visit to Mexico in August 2007.
Appointed by Governor Jim Gibbons to the Office of Minority Health, Maggie also chairs the Southern Nevada Immunization Coalition in partnership with the Southern Nevada Health District and the Center for Disease Control, the Workforce Connections of Nevada Board, The United Way and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Community Advisory Boards. Maggie represents the Law Firm of Benson, Bertoldo, Baker & Carter as their Director of Community Outreach.
