International Health Humanities Network Membership

Got my medical degree in Argentina. Completed Neurosurgical Residency in Buenos Aires. Fellowships in South Africa and Canada. Academic possitions in Mexico and in the USA (at UCLA). Now Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery and in charge of International Medical Initiatives at UCLA Center for World Health. Many articles published on Pediatric Neurosurgery. A book on spina bifida defects, and few poems. Robust link with Central America and China.

Strongly interested in exchanging ideas about medical education with colleagues in what we today call low and middle income nations. I emphasize on utilizing the internet and on fostering publications in the language spoken by the doctors to their patients. Medicine is more about stories told by one person to another than an itemized exchange of facts, thus while the widespread use of English as the lingua franca is understandable, we have to return to the native language of the patient and the physician when exchanging ideas about diseases.