Carlos Gonzalez Quesada, MD

Carlos Gonzalez Quesada earned his MD from Universidad De La Salle (Mexico City) in 2007. As a medical student he trained in the National Health Institutes, a group of public hospitals that provides tertiary and quaternary health care to the most underserved populations in Mexico. During his training he also worked in the Department of Interventional Cardiology of the National Institute of Cardiology (Mexico City) where he conducted genetic research on heart disease in the Mexican population. After medical school he attended Baylor College of Medicine to study the mechanisms responsible for orchestrating the healing response of cardiac injury during events such as myocardial infarction, hypertension, diabetes and obesity. He continued his research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, exploring the therapeutic targets for attenuation of adverse remodeling following cardiac injury to avoid the development of heart disease. Currently, Dr. Gonzalez Quesada also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Guía EXARMED, a top general medicine treatise which aids in the training of medical students and primary care providers of lower- and middle-income regions within Mexico and Latin America. As a Global Health Equity resident, he will focus on improving health care delivery to underserved populations with chronic diseases in lower- and middle-income countries.