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The Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) maintains its leadership in the teaching of medicine, and as part of its strengthening plan to train highly qualified professionals, this academic institution inaugurated the Simulation Center of the School of Medicine, located in the Institute of Biological Sciences (ICB). This center is equipped with high-tech simulators and was developed so that the student performs from elementary practices, such as revisions and basic exams, to the most complex, with mannequins programmed for various medical scenarios such as labor and cardiac arrests, among others. The Simulation Center will serve to reinforce the training of the students so that later they can practice with real patients in their clinical cycles in the more than the 100 public and private hospitals with which UAG has an agreement. During the inauguration of this center, the President of UAG, Lic. Antonio Leaño Reyes, said that the university has more than 83 years of working to achieve a better Mexico....

Dr. Hurt is a board certified family practice provider and a board certified integrative holistic medicine provider, fluent in Spanish. Dr. Hurt is a native of Odessa Texas, but his father, who deals in bank insurance for the FDIC, moved the family around a lot. “I’ve lived in Boston, San Mateo, California, Dallas, New Zealand, New York City and Mexico, but Texas is home,” Myers said. “Most of my family now lives in Dallas, and my wife’s family lives around the region.” Hurt said while his grandfather was a pharmacist, there was no background in medicine in the family. His own curiosity and drive to problem-solve led him to earn a degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University; His parents then convinced him to broaden his options by going back to medical school. Because he wanted to eventually settle and work in Texas, Hurt, who is fluent in Spanish, chose to enter undergraduate medical training at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara...

Victor L. Roberts, MD, MBA, FACP, FACE, CPE, an Endocrinologist with the Endocrine Associates of Florida, P.A. in Lake Mary, Florida, was named Top Endocrinologist of the Year for 2018 by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) for his outstanding leadership, dedication and commitment to the health field. While inclusion with the International Association of Top Professionals is an honor in itself, only a few members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, longevity in the field, other affiliations and contributions to their communities.  All honorees are invited to attend the IAOTP’s annual award gala at the end of this year for a night to honor their achievements. www.iaotp.com/award-gala. With having more than 35 years of professional experience in Endocrinology, Dr. Roberts has certainly proven himself as an extraordinary professional, and expert in the field.Dr. Roberts is a dynamic, results-driven leader who has demonstrated...

Gabriela D. Kaplan is a distinguished diagnostic radiologist specializing in neuroradiology and imaging. Born in Quito, Ecuador, Gabriela attended the Colegio Americano in the city of her birth. During her formative years, she studied piano under the tutelage of Francoise Lambert, Countess of LaPorte at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Quito. Mme. Lambert had been invited by Ecuador’s government to teach there after winning the First Prize in the piano competition at the Paris conservatory of Music in France. Following this musical education, Gabriela was awarded a scholarship to study at Whittier College in California, U.S.A., where she earned her Bachelor of Art’s degree. Later, Gabriela graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in Mexico with a doctorate in medicine. There, during her final three years, she was elected Medical School Class President. She then completed her internship with the New Jersey School of Medicine. Following this, she pursued residencies in surgery and radiology at New York City's Lenox...