Hospital ***** ***** de ***** de *****. The Hospital ***** ***** de ***** of ***** is one of the 300 worldwide medical facilities owned by the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God. The Order gives coverage to 20 million people yearly in 51 countries throughout the world.

Medical Director: (08/07 – Present)
Responsibilities:
• To be the medical leader of the organization.
• To design and to follow, along the Board of Directors, the Hospital’s Strategic Plan.
• Surveillance of the hospital workflow.
• Being the hospital medical representative to government authorities and medical academies and scientific events.
• To design projects related to the Hospital’s settings. (medical technology, informatics technology, Hospital’s master plan)
• Member of the Board of Directors

Hospital ***** ***** de ***** de *****.

Medical Manager. (01/2007 – *****)

Responsibilities:

• To make an organizational diagnostic of the hospital.
• To make a strategic plan of the facility in order to attract more patients to it.
• To plan, design, organize, and implement projects in order to fulfill the objectives delineated in the strategic plan.

Unidad de Gestión de Tecnologías de Salud (UGTS) Universidad Simón Bolívar. (*****- to date)
Responsibilities:
• Health Consultant in designing and building hospitals and health care facilities.
• Lecturer in the Clinical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Specialties. To give the medical basis to the future clinical or biomedical engineer in order to achieve a comprehensive work within a medical environment.

VWL Servicios Médicos C.A.

Project Manager. (06/2005 –*****)

Responsibilities:
• To design and implement projects related to Healthcare.
o Atención Médica Integral (AMI). Project designed and implemented to give healthcare coverage to workers in their workplace. This Project comply with the Venezuelan Occupational Health an Safety law, (LOPCYMAT) It is also designed to fulfill the international specifications related to occupational health and safety management systems.
 Coverage:
• 2005: 320 workers.
• 2006: 1560 workers
• 2007: 2700 workers.

Hospital de Niños de *****,
Cardiovascular Surgery (08/2004 – 12/2005)
*****, Distrito Capital
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Specialist

Responsibilities:
• To admit and to prepare children and their families undergoing cardiovascular Surgery.
• To follow them up after leaving the CICU and discharge them to home.
Hospital Pérez de León (09/2003 – 01/2007)
*****,, Miranda
Head of the Pediatric Emergency Department

Responsibilities:
• Managing the Pediatric Department during the afternoon Shift. Mean Coverage: 40,000 children annually.
Achievements:
• Setting up the guidelines to improve the medical care.
• To Train the medical residents in the Pediatric EM Field (BLS, APLS)
• To discuss medical cases and to exchange opinions with attendants/residents through e-mail. The beginning of telemedicine.
Hospital Pérez de León (01/2000 – 01/2007)
*****, Miranda

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:
• To lead the institutional growth according to: Demographics, populations’ needs, technology and financial reality.
Achievements:
• Radiology Replacement Project: To substitute the obsolete radiology equipment with digital radiology technology. Approved in 9/2000. Cost: US$ 907,773.41
• New Pérez de León Hospital. Leader of the Project of designing and construction of our new 107 beds Emergency Hospital. Also, the project includes the furnishing of the hospital and to acquire the medical equipment. The new hospital will be ready in March 2007. Estimated cost: US$ 22,000,000.00
Corporación de Salud del Estado Miranda (09/*****/2004)

Member of the Board of Directors

The Corporación de Salud del Estado Miranda is the health authority of the Miranda State the second populated domain in Venezuela. We are in charge of running the public health care system giving coverage to 2.4 million people.


Responsibilities:
• To direct and to manage the health care system of our state. It includes strategic planning, budget approval and health program monitoring. Annual budget: 62 million dollars
Achievements:
• The Ambulatorio Cogestionado Project: High impact project in which the local community will manage their primary care facilities. We empower them and give the managerial tools needed to run a health care facility. With this program our aim is to introduce the community into the health care system, taking care of their medical facilities and to participate in local medical programs.
• Remodeling and refurbishing the Emergency Departments and upgrading its medical equipment of the following hospitals: Victorino *****taella, Materno Infantil del Este, Simón Bolívar and Higuerote. These projects will be ready by summer 2004. Approximate cost of The Projects: US 7 Million Dollars.
• To set up the Procurement Commitee.
Corporación de Salud del Estado Miranda (04/*****/2004)
*****, Miranda

President of the Procurement Committee

Responsibilities:
• To plan and carry out the procurement process to purchase medicines, medical and laboratory consumables, medical equipments, services such as cleaning, and maintenance of medical equipment. Our goal was to acquire the best good/service at the fair market price while being totally unmistakable during the process.
Achievements:
• Setting it up for the first time in the Corporation.
• Purchasing goods/services for US$ 6,250,000 in 2003.
Hospital Pérez de León (07/*****/2003)
*****, Miranda

Physician Attendant

Responsibilities:
• To take care of severely ill children arriving at the ED. To train medical residents in the pediatric emergency medicine field. Our goal is to get trained medical staff in the basic and advanced pediatric life support skills.
Achievement:

To begin with standardization the medical care in the ED. We have written guidelines for the 80% of illnesses that arrive at our ED. These guidelines have saved lives, time and money for our hospital. Also the guidelines are used in other teaching hospitals.
Hospital Pérez de León (01/*****/2000)
*****,, Miranda

Leader of the Atención Inmediata Project

Responsibility:
• To lead the planning and acquiring of medical equipment for the Pediatric Emergency Department and Pediatric ICU.
Achievement:
Approval of the Project in 9/2000. Cost: U$ 595,107.18.

Instituto de Estu***** Superiores de Administración IESA (2001)
Degree: Program of Management of Health Care Facilities
156 academic hours program in which they provide the organizational, strategic planning, financial, logistic, legal, marketing, maintenance and ethical tools to manage a health care facility.

Hospital de Niños de ***** (*****)
Degree: Medicina Crítica Pediátrica (Pediatric Critical Care Subspecialist)
Sub-specialist in Pediatric Intensive Care. Capable of working either in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit or in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

Univesidad Central de Venezuela (*****)
Degree: Pediatría y Puericultura.
Pediatrics specialist.

Universidad Central de Venezuela (*****)
Degree: Médico Cirujano, (MD)

American Language Academy (1980)
Degree: English as a Second Language
One academic year learning to write, read and speak English

Memberships / Affiliations:
1. Science Advisory Board. Number *****. Member since June 2002.

2. Member of the International Editorial Board de Pediatric Emergency Medicine Database. See http://*****/Homepage.html Member since 2000.

3. Sociedad Venezolana de Medicina Crítica. Affiliated since February 1999.

4. Colegio de Médicos del Distrito Capital. Number 20.139. Member since January 1996.

5. Sociedad Venezolana de Puericultura y Pediatría. Affiliated since 1995.

6. Colegio de Médicos del Estado Miranda. Number 10.754 Member since September 1990.

Honors and Awards:

• Earned a place among the most important contributors to the medical profession in the Marquis "Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare" Edition *****.

• Selected as one of the “Leading Health Professionals of the World 2005” by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.

Managing healthcare for a province or state. Having the experience to manage healthcare of 2.4 million people. In there you have to apply the skills of strategic planning, managing with change, procurement processes, standardizing medicals and managing processes among others.