MD degree from Universidad Cayetano Heredia in 2000. Master in Public Health in 2001, Harvard School of Public Health.  Pediatric Internship and Residency at Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham. Critical Care Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Piladelphia.  Have been working at UAB/Childrens of Alabama since 2007.   Initially both the cardiac ICU and the PICU, now only the cardiac unit.  Medical Director and Section Chief of Cardiac Critical Care since 2017.  
Current academic ranking of Professor of Pediatrics. Donald M James Chair of Cardiac Critical Care.