Category: Local POC FELAEN

Dr. Hernán Tala, Endocrinologist, especialist in thyroid cancer, chief of Thyroid Center at Clínica Alemana, Santiago, Chile, profesor of endocrinology in Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile, past president of Thyroid study group of the Chilean Endocrine Society.

Msc FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine.
Head of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit.
Director of the Research Center EPICYN.
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.
University of La Frontera, Chile.
Past President of the Chilean Society of Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Dr Mercedes Piñeyro graduated in medicine from the Universidad de la República, School of Medicine, Uruguay. She then did her medical residence in Internal Medicine in Pasteur Hospital, Uruguay.

She continued her fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism in the Endocrinology Department at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA.

She is currently working as Professor (Grade 4) in the Endocrinology and Metabolism Department, Hospital de Clínicas, School of Medicine, Uruguay.

Her main fields of interest are Pituitary Disease.

She is a member of several societies including: The Endocrine Society, The Pituitary Society, The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), Sociedad Uruguaya de Endocrinología y Metabolismo (SUEM).

MD, FRCP(C)

Graduated from The Faculty of Medicine of National University of Mexico. Completed residency training in internal medicine at The Montreal General Hospital, McGill University and subspecialty training in endocrinology and metabolism at Center for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine of The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, as well as a postdoctoral in molecular endocrinology at the same institution. He is currently the director of the Experimental Endocrinology Unit at National Medical Center in Mexico City, as well as professor of medicine at National University of Mexico. His research focus is in pituitary diseases, particularly acromegaly, Cushing’s disease and non-functioning adenomas.

MD, MSc, PhD.
Professor of Endocrinology at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Endocrinology internist.
Scientific Director of ENDOCARE Research Institute in Endocrinology and Metabolic Risk.
Full Professor at the Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.
Former President of the Colombian Association of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Chief of the Endocrinology Department FUNDACION CLINICA VALLE DEL LILI Cali, Colombia
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Endocrinology Profesor CES University Cali, Colombia
Endocrinology Profesor ICESI University Cali, Colombia
Past president Asociacion Colombiana de Endocrinologia
Past president Colombian Chapter AACE

General Practitioner UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE Cali, Colombia
Internal Medicine UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE Cali, Colombia
Endocrinology UNIVERSIDAD MILITAR NUEVA GRANADA Bogota,
Colombia
Fellow of American College of Endocrinology

Research activities of the cGMP Facility and Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the Cell Transplant Center, DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DRI) University of Miami School of Medicine, May 2003; February 2018
Diploma in Research Methodology and Clinical Epidemiology, INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES CLINICAS , FUNDACION VALLE DEL LILI, December 2005

Publications in Books and research articles and Book editor
Member of the editorial committee of medical journals

Endocrinologist-Internal Medicine.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Luis Razetti School, University Hospital of Caracas, Central University of Venezuela.
Vicepresident of Venezuelan Society of Endocrinología and Metabolism (SVEM).
Director of Latinoamerican Federation of Endocrinology (FELAEN).