Mexico, Medicine and Me: Cardiac Care [] La Biblioteca Publica (Public Library)

Moderator: Dr. Grace Lim

JORGE ALVAREZ DE LA CADENA SILLAS
Found member and Current Associate  of The Instituto de Corazon de Queretaro, full time  Cardiology of Private practice in san Miguel Allende.

Premed Minesota University; Medical School UNAM graduated with honors; Residency  on  Internal medicine and cardiology La Raza Medical Center, Mexico City; Award  best Resident in the internal medicine Fellow of The American Colege of cardiology.

Titular Member of: National  Mexican   Society of cardiology; National  Mexican Cardiology Association; National Mexican Board of cardiology; European Society of cardiology; American College of cardioloy; Guanajuato Socierty of Cardiology; Queretaro Societyof cardiology.

SANTIAGO CASAL ALONSO
MAC Hospital San Miguel de Allende Office 105

MD School at Autonomous University of Querétaro Mexico; Internal Medicine Fellowship at General Hospital of Mexico; Cardiology Fellowship at Ignacio Chávez National Institute of Cardiology Mexico; Advanced Clinical Echocardiography Master at Universidad Francisco de Vittoria Madrid Spain.

FRANCISCO MELÉNDEZ ALHAMBRA
Universidad Autónoma de Juárez; specialty degree in general surgery is from the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua; subspecialty in cardiothoracic surgery in Mexico City at the Hospital 20 de noviembre ISSSTE, affliliated with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Certified by the Mexican Board of General Surgery and by the National Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Performed the first open heart surgery in San Miguel de Allende Guanajuato, at the MAC Hospital.

Certification in ECLS (Extracorporeal Life Support) from the University of Monterrey and from the ELSO (The Extracorporeal Life Support Organization) at the ECMO 321 Center of the Christus Muguerza High Specialty Hospital.

Diploma in Heart Failure from the Favaloro`s Foundation  University Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Active member of the EACTS (European Association For Cardio-Thoracic Surgery) and STS (The Society of Thoracic Surgeons).