Education:

• 1997 – Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, Stanford.
• 1994 – Specialty in Infectology, INNSZ.
• 1991 – Specialty in Internal Medicine, INNSZ.
• 1987 – Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Academic appointments:

• Head, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán.
• Researcher in Medical Sciences E, INCMNSZ.
• National System of Researchers, Level III.
• Advisor to the Tuberculosis Control Program in Mexico
• Member of the STOP TB Committee in Mexico
• Undergraduate professor at the Universidad Panamericana School of Medicine
• Visiting professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM
• Professor of the specialty of Infectology, masters and doctoral tutor at UNAM.

Research interests:

• Tuberculosis.
• Molecular Epidemiology.
• Bacterial resistance.
• Invasive Fungal Infections.

Featured projects: 

• He has coordinated various research groups to study tuberculosis in conjunction with the INSP, INER, UNAM, and more than ten foreign universities and graduated  Ph.D. students in the area of ​​tuberculosis.