Antonio Paniagua Guzman, PHD, MS
Post-Doctoral Associate

Dr. Antonio Paniagua Guzman was born and raised in Mexico City and joined the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team (MK-MDT) in July 2022. He received his PhD (Sociology, 2022) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and MS (Sociology, 2016) from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Paniagua Guzman’s research focuses on dementia care and health disparities and inequalities in the Indigenous context, using primarily art-based and ethnographic approaches. He is the principal investigator for MK-MDT’s first Alzheimer’s Association grant (AARFD-23-1151307): Therapeutic Poetry Program for Indigenous People Living with Dementia. He is also the principal investigator for MK-MDT’s first C2DREAM grant (CON000000094340): The Impact of Colonization on Indigenous Cardiovascular Health in Minnesota: Developing a Conceptual Framework. Both projects led by Dr. Paniagua Guzman are being developed and implemented in collaboration with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.