External links
Link to Pub Med list of publications
  | This biographical article related to medicine in Peru is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Humberto Guerra Allison (born 1940), is a physician and scientist. He graduated from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (MD) and Baylor College of Medicine (PhD in Microbiology). With Hugo Lumbreras, he co-founded a Tropical Medicine Institute at Cayetano Heredia University, the Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt at Lima, Peru. Guerra later directed the Institute.
Guerra's research focuses on the pathogenesis and immunology of bacterial diseases including brucellosis, leishmania and tuberculosis. He is the head of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at the IMT AvH.j
The Peru Report's Guide to Top People in Peru. Vol 1, p 303, 1992
Link to Pub Med list of publications
| | This biographical article related to medicine in Peru is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Carlos José Bustamante is a Peruvian scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases. At the time, his strategy was greeted with considerable skepticism and opposition to such hygiene measures. However, the measures he put into practice as the head of the Panama Canal Zone Sanitation Commission saved thousands of lives and contributed to the success of the Canal's construction.
San Martín de Porres (SMP) is a district in Lima, Peru, located in the area known as Cono Norte. It is bordered by the district of Callao on the west; Los Olivos on the northeast; and the Rímac and Independencia districts on the east. The Rímac River marks its natural border with downtown Lima and Callao province's district of Carmen de la Legua Reynoso on the south; while the Chillón River, on the north, marks San Martín de Porres' border with Ventanilla, also in Callao, and Puente Piedra.
Cayetano Heredia was a Peruvian physician, born in Catacaos, Piura, northwestern Peru. He studied medicine at the National University of San Marcos. Together with Hipólito Unanue, he was one of the two greatest Peruvian physicians of the 19th century. He happened to live through the tense period of the struggle for independence of Peru from Spain, and his participation in political life was as intense as the time and effort he devoted to medicine. He died in Lima on 1861.
Cayetano Heredia University is a private nonprofit university located in Lima, Peru. It was named in honor of Cayetano Heredia, one of the eminent Peruvian physicians of the 19th century. The university is overseen by a board of trustees (patronato) and is not owned by any private or state entity. It is considered one of the top medical schools in Peru, along the Faculty of Medicine "San Fernando" of National University of San Marcos), and is currently one of the major producers and publishers of scientific research in the country.
Alejandro Aurelio Aguinaga Recuenco is a Peruvian physician and fujimorist politician. He has been Congressman, representing Lambayeque, since 2006.
Cayetano is a Spanish name related to the Italian name Gaetano, both from Latin Caietanus, meaning "from Gaeta". It is a common given name in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and the Philippines. As a surname, it is also found predominantly in those countries, as well as Peru. The feminine version of the name is Cayetana.
Juan E. Mezzich, M.D., Ph.D. was the president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) from 2005 to 2008. He currently works as the Professor of Psychiatry and Director at the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University.
The Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH) is a tropical medicine institute at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1968, under the direction of Prof. Hugo Lumbreras Cruz, a distinguished Peruvian doctor and parasitologist. His work as Director was continued by Dr. Humberto Guerra Allison and later by Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo Herencia. The Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt has ongoing investigations in tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, malaria and HIV, both in its site in Lima and in several field sites such as Iquitos, Cuzco and La Merced.
Carlos Santiago Vallejos Sologuren is a Peruvian physician and politician. He is a member of Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana. Since July 28, 2006, he has been the Peruvian Minister of Health.
The Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility assay (MODS) is a culture method shown to be more sensitive, faster and cheaper test than current culture-based tests for Tuberculosis. The Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility assay (MODS) involves direct observation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and simultaneously yields drug-resistance.
Mirta Roses Periago is an Argentine epidemiologist who served as Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) from 2003 until 2013.
Carlos Carrillo Parodi, medical microbiologist, professor and founder of the University Cayetano Heredia, was National Coordinator of the Global Programme of eradication of smallpox in Peru in 1972, founding member of the Society of Infectious Diseases in 1978, and Head of the National Institute of Health in two periods. In 1992 he was National Coordinator of the programme for the eradication of cholera in Peru. Recognized as an expert in National Public Health and Climate Change in 1999/2001. In 2003, is incorporated as Academic number by the National Academy of Medicine, with more than 70 publications in national and international journals. Credited with the IDSA's Award Kass in 2004, in Boston and appointed Member of the Consultative Council of the Foundation Institute Hipolito Unanue in 2006.
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) is a postgraduate award, given after a prescribed period of instruction followed by an examination consisting of three parts; (a) a written examination (b) a practical laboratory examination and (c) an oral examination. In some schools, a fourth part consisting of a clinical bedside examination may be required.
The Iquitos Satellite Laboratory (IQTLAB) was established in 2002 in the city of Iquitos, Peru by doctor Margaret Kosek, biologist Maribel Paredes Olortegui, and nurse Pablo Peñataro Yori, with the collaboration of the Dr. Robert Gilman working group in Lima, Peru and the US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6).
Javier Mariátegui Chiappe was a renowned Peruvian intellectual and psychiatrist. He was the last of the children of José Carlos Mariátegui and Anna Chiappe. Studied at the University of San Marcos where he also started teaching; he was also a founder of Cayetano Heredia University. He was also the founding director of the National Institute of Mental Health “Honorio Delgado - Hideyo Noguchi”. He died in Lima.
Stefan Hugo Ernst Kaufmann is a German immunologist and microbiologist and is one of the highly cited immunologists worldwide for the decade 1990 to 2000.. He is amongst the 0.01% most cited scientists of ca. 7 million scientists in 22 major scientific fields globally.
Ramiro Castro de la Mata was a physician, scientist, pharmacologist, professor and founder of the University Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He was recognized internationally as an expert in drug addiction.
Javier Alberto Barreda Jara was a Peruvian sociologist, writer and public administrator. Born in Lima, he was educated at Cayetano Heredia University and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He served as the Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment for four months, from January to April 2018.
Dionicia Gamboa is a Peruvian parasitologist and associate professor at Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Cayetano Heredia University. Her research focusses on Plasmodium vivax, a major malaria parasite species in South America.