Dr. Dinora  Chinchilla was born in Lincoln Heights, California and completed her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with a Minor in Biology at California State University, Los Angeles. She then completed a Post-bac and received her medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at Harbor-UCLA. Dr. chinchilla credits her family and overcoming various health disparities as the drivers of her passion to become a pulmonary critical care physician.