By Special to El Paso Matters, El Paso Matters As Cynthia Maldonado drives past the Texas Tech Health El Paso campus on her way to work, she recalls conversations she had years ago with her mother during their morning commute to Silva Health Magnet High School. They would discuss the medical school buildings under construction across the street and the possibility of Cynthia becoming a doctor.

Now known as Dr. Maldonado, the physician truly made her mother proud by earning her M.D. from the Foster School of Medicine, largely thanks to a scholarship created by Dr. Dionicio “Manny” Alvarez, and his wife, Alice. 

Trained in her hometown, she walks into exam rooms across El Paso, speaking both English and Spanish to patients who need someone who understands not just their symptoms but als

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