Research Fellow in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology
Aldo Castaneda Foundation at UNICAR Hospital Guatemala
Sep 2003 - Jun 2005 (1 year 10 months)
The Aldo Castaneda Foundation, a non-profit organization, created the only dedicated pediatric cardiac center in Guatemala, located at the national heart institute (UNICAR) in Guatemala City. Here I worked under the mentorship of Dr. Aldo Castaneda, MD, PhD, former chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at Children's Hospital Boston, and William E. Ladd Professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. My main project was the creation of an electronic database to characterize in hospital mortality of all patients with congenital heart disease operated upon between 1997-2004. This data is the basis of a first author paper published in Circulation in 2007. I implemented the use of Epi-Info, an open-source statistical software from the Centers of Di