UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

Elementary and secondary school, St. Louis School of Lima, Peru: 1954-1966
Degree: Bachelor in Humanities

MEDICAL EDUCATION:

Bachelor in Medicine
San Marcos School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, 1967-1968

Doctor of Medicine
Cayetano Heredia School of Medicine, Lima, Peru, 1969-1973

INTERNSHIP:

Lutheran Hospital of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 1973-1974
Medicine - 3 months; Surgery - 3 months; OB-GYN - 3 months

RESIDENCY:

General Surgery
University of Rochester surgical Program
New York (with rotations through St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester General Hospital and Gennesee Hospital), 1974-1975.

Neurological Surgery
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, 1975-1980 (with the following rotations)

Clinical Neurosurgery
University of Missouri Medical Center - VA Hospital
Columbia, Missouri, 1975-1976

Neuropathology
Barnes Hospital at Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri, July to October 1976

Neurology
Barnes Hospital at Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri, October 1976 to July 1977

Clinical Neurosurgery
St. Luke’s Hospital (an affiliate of the Neurosurgical Program of University) Columbia, Missouri, July 1977 to December 1978

Senior Resident
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children’s Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham Neurosurgical
Program, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, January 1979 to July 1979

Chief Resident
University of Missouri Medical Center - VA Hospital
Columbia, Missouri, July 1979 to June 1980

LICENSURE:

Missouri, #35730, 1977
Texas, F8395, 1980

CERTIFICATION:

ECFMG - January 1973
FLEX - December 1976
American Board of Neurological Surgery, 1983

PRIVATE PRACTICE:

Neurological Surgery, Nacogdoches, TX, 1980-1982
Neurological Surgery, San Antonio, TX, 1982-1995 Neurosurgical Associates of San Antonio, P.A.
July 1, 1995 to present

STAFF APPOINTMENTS:

Chief of Neurosurgery
Baptist Memorial Hospital System, 1987

Chief of Neurosurgery
Santa Rosa Medical Center, 1987-1988

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX, 1982 to present

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS:

Methodist Hospital
Metropolitan Methodist Hospital
Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital
The Spine Hospital of South Texas

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Bexar County Medical Society
Texas Medical Association
Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
North American Spine Society
Latin-American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Hispanic Medical Society

APPOINTMENTS:

Vice-President
Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons
1999-2000

Program Chairman
Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons
1999-2000