Emma C. Nevarez

Last modified on: 09-04-2025 12:00:42

Board Member
(Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas)

Entered Office: 10-04-2019 Term Ends: 08-31-2025

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Home Town: El Paso


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Emma C. Nevarez is the president of the Medical Center of the Americas (MCA) Foundation, a nonprofit operating in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. Nevarez founded the MCA along with her board in 2006 to be the “keeper of the vision” of the newly forming medical campus in El Paso. Since then, the MCA has completed three master plans for the medical campus and continuously oversees its coordinated planning programs. The MCA also developed the first private biomedical incubator in the region: the Cardwell Collaborative, comprising 20,000 square feet of wet labs, dry labs, data rooms, office space, collaboration spaces, and more. The facility houses its Innovation Center, Clinical Trials Consortium, BIO El Paso-Juarez, Healthcare Think Tank, and STEM camps.

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