It was my intellectual curiosity that brought me to medicine and later to the exciting field of surgery. Growing up in a family of Medical Doctors, everything started as a young child in Cuba. When I was six years old, my mother took me into the Operating Room and, unexpected, a few minutes later I was watching a newborn baby coming into our word. Through the years my interested and love of learning allow me to know that the practice of Medicine would fulfill my thirst for knowledge and my desire to give the others the wonderful gift I have received throughout my academic life.
During my medical school years in Cuba, I spent many happy hours in the Operating Room Department. I found this experience to be compatible with my need for both intellectual and physical challenge. I greatly admired the way the practice of Medicine and Surgery balances art with science. This led me to get into the General Surgery Residency Program.
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I tend not to let things happen for me, or assume they will get done, but rather I enjoy making changes and moving forward. Four years after that I had completed the program and graduated as a General Surgical Attendant and a few months after my fellowship in Cardio-Thoracic Surgery had begun, my family and I had the unexpected opportunity to flee the island of Cuba to Brazil, where I practice General Medicine and General Surgery for 3 years before moving to the United States of America.
I was fortunate enough to find a position as a Research Assistant at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. One year later I left the molecular/research lab at Columbia, to join Saint Michael Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, first as a phlebotomist and later as a Surgical Technician. I considered this to be my golden opportunity. I worked during a year in General Surgery and for 2 years in Cardio-thoracic Surgery. After that I was accepted into the Seton Hall University Internal Medicine Residency Program, which was completed, and I became an American Board-Certified Physician in the field of Internal Medicine. This makes my hopes and dreams fulfilled once again. So, since that, 2009 I had been practicing General and Internal Medicine in United States of America.
