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• Specialty in Internal Medicine. Universidad de Costa Rica.
• Specialty in Cardiology. Universidad de Costa Rica.
• Master of Medical Management. Tulane University School of Medicine.
• Specialty in Interventional Cardiology. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
• Specialty in Interventional Cardiology and Hemodynamics. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• General medicine. Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica.

• Interventional Cardiology and Hemodynamics - Vall d `Hebron Hospital, Autonomous University of Barcelona

• Interventional Cardiology and Hemodynamics - Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

• Technician Degree

  Technician: Radial access catheterization, complex catheterization, complex angioplasty of total chronic occlusions, Peripheral Angioplasty and Percutaneous Valvular Interventions

• Technician Degree

  Certified Operator Percutaneous Aortic Valves Edwards and Medtronic Evolut

• Technician Degree

  Certified Operator Watchman Lug Closure Device

• Technician Degree

  Certified Operator of Mitraclip device for Mitral Valve insufficiency

• Technician Degree

  Certified Operator of Amplatzer Interatrial Septum Defect Closure Devices

• Technician Degree

• Physicians and Surgeons College of Costa Rica cod. MED3713Active

  Medic and Surgeon - Costa Rica

• Spanish Society of Cardiology

• Head of service and Hemodynamics HCG, CCSS.

• 80 Congreso médico Nacional 2018, Expositor Academico , De la anticuoagulación al cierre de percutáneo de la orejuela en la Fibrilación Auricular.
• Congreso internacional de Cardiología Avanzada, basado en Medicina de Evidencia Co-organizador y expositor, Colegio de Médicos de Costa Rica , Agosto , 2018.
• EURO PCR 2016 Paris, Francia, Oral clinical case presentation 855. Rescue PCI of 100% left main on STEMI by bilateral radial approach.
• EURO PCR 2016 Paris Francia, Oral clinical case presentation 693. Percutaneous Closure of a Giant ascending Aortic Pseudoaneurysm leak.
• EURO PCR 2014 Paris Francia, Oral case presentation, PCI of Giant Aneurysm lesions on STEMI by Radial Approach
• TCT 2012 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Miami Beach Convention Center Miami Fl. Challenging case Video presentations Session III. CoronaryTCT-1171 PCI of Giant Aneurysm lesions on STEMI by Radial Approach.
• Solaci 2011 Sociedad Latinoamericana de Cardiología Intervencionista, Chile Agosto 3-5 , 2011, Acceso Radial Bilateral en Oclusión crónica Total. Presentación oral de casos clínicos.
• Lower levels of in-stent late loss are not associated with the risk of stent thrombosis inpatients receiving drug-eluting stents. Eurointerv.2008:4:124:132.Beneficio de los DES sobre TS-BMS Meta-análisis de 9 estudios aleatorizados.Presentación mini –oral Congreso SEC 2008. Bilbao, España.
• Transmural crossover of myocardial fibers in the postero-lateral wall of the left atrium; implication for the fibrillatory process of atrial fibrillation. Abstract. (ESC) European Society of Cardiology Congress 2008, Munich, Germany.
• Implications for endocardial ablation of atrial fibrillation. AbstractThe muscular connections between the left atrial appendage and pulmonary veinsESC)European Society of Cardiology Congress 2008, Munich, Germany.
• How close are the atrial arteries to the pulmonary veins? A potential cooling effect with implications for catheter ablation of patients with atrial fibrillation.Abstract (ESC) European Society of Cardiology congress 2008. Munich, Germany.
• Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions with a novel dedicated stent procedure andclinical follow up. E- Poster TCT Congress 2007. , Washington, DC, USA.
• Evaluación de trombosis tardía del stent farmacoactivo con CT scan , Abstract . Congreso de lasociedad catalana de cardiología. 2007.
• Experiencia de cierre percútanea de fugas periprotésicas en el Hospital Vall d’Hebron Abstract .Congreso de la sociedad catalana de cardiología, 2007.
• Revascularización coronaria en el paciente diabético, Revista Española de Cardiología.Sup. 2007; 7:43H.
• Intolerancia a la Glucosa como factor de riesgo para Accidente Vascular Cerebral , 1994Revista Medica Nacional. 2000, 18 (2).( Impaired Tolerante of Glucosa as a risk factor for Stroke).
• Casos de Feocromocitomas registró. Hospital México, Congreso Medico Nacional. 1992.(Revista Médica Costarricense.)