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About the Faculty of
About the Faculty of
We are an academic unit that is focused on preparing highly qualified professionals in the different fields of the health sciences. Our commitment towards excellence and world-class facilities ensure that studying at the School of Medical and Health Sciences provides an outstanding and gratifying experience.
The integral development of health professionals with the competencies that differentiate them:
As the most qualified for the practice in the national and international professional markets. With the leadership supported by ethical and humanistic principles, commitment and spirit of service.
Through an educational methodology of excellence focused on the student that allows them to assume:
The efficient management of health resources. To contribute to the transformation of the health conditions of the country, the well-being and quality of life of the population.
To be recognized as a leader in the development of a transformational mindset in health. To be acknowledged as one of the best Schools of Medical and Health Sciences both nationally and internationally.
To be recognized as a model of excellence for sustainable and integral professional formation where the educational community enjoys the best and most stimulating environment possible, and as a Faculty that takes advantage of the latest technological resources.
To educate health professionals with a high level of performance, scientific, academic and technological excellence, in order for them to make decisions, solve problems, update their knowledge and become guides for the integral development of the human being in all areas.
To develop scientific research oriented to the knowledge generation, solution of health problems and the specific developments that each discipline requires.
To train professionals with a service attitude, humanistic mysticism and ethics, recognizing the strong social commitment with the population.
To facilitate the development of professionals from the health sector and other fields, through a process of professional enhancement and development, in order to offer a service with equity, efficiency, effectiveness and quality in Guatemala.
To achieve an educational community that is characterized by a participative, efficient and effective management with equality and gender focus; visionary, creative and innovative leadership, committed, competent and satisfied work team, with adequate physical-environmental conditions and using appropriate technology in all its activities.
Services of
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Wellness Clinic for Faculty Students, providing medical services and psychopedagogical support
Dean’s
Future health professionals, it is with great enthusiasm that I address you as Dean of the School of Medical Sciences to make a noble call to serve society through dedication and excellence by embracing your vocation in the health sciences.
Our faculty is home to the School of Medicine, the School of Nutrition, the School of Nursing, the School of Physical Therapy and our recent addition, the School of Veterinary Medicine. Each one of these schools is a fundamental pillar in the health care network, and together, they form a community of academic excellence, with presence and recognition in six regions of our country.
It will be an honor to count on your presence and a privilege to accompany you at every stage of your training; remember that every diagnosis you make and every compassionate care you offer, have the potential to transform lives.
Our
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Physician and Surgeon, graduated from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.
General Surgeon at Baylor College of Medicine, Cardiovascular Surgery Baylor College of Medicine, PhD Rice University by Baylor College of Medicine.
Cardiovascular Surgeon and founder of Cardiovascular Surgery Unit of Guatemala (UNICAR) - Guatemala.
Vice President of the Republic of Guatemala 2008-2012.
Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Mariano Galvez University.
Dr. Rafael Espada
Physician and Surgeon, with postgraduate degree in Psychiatry and Master in Education in Health Sciences.
Vice-Dean of the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Mariano Galvez University.
Coordinator of the Teacher Training Program for professors of Medicine, Nutrition and Veterinary Medicine.
Coordinator of Curricular Development in the different fields of the Medicine career.
Teacher of the Mental Health course in the postgraduate of Medical Specialties.
Dra. Edna Patricia Salazar
Physician and Surgeon graduated from the University of San Carlos de Guatemala, Specialist in Child Health, Diploma in Clinical Administration and Bioethics.
Undergraduate and graduate professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University, Mariano Galvez.
Member of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medical Sciences and Health at the Mariano Gálvez University.
Member of the Latin American Bioethics Network.
Dra. Sara Guerra Vivar
Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition. Master's degree in Public Health with emphasis in Epidemiology and Management.
Diploma in Adolescent Medicine.
Diploma in Food Rights and Public Policies.
Master's Degree in Health Sciences Education at Mariano Galvez University of Guatemala (closed curriculum).
PhD in Nutrition (FUNIBER thesis work). University professor at undergraduate and graduate level in Nutrition and Health Sciences since 2002 in private and public universities in Guatemala.
Member of the Association of Nutritionists of Guatemala -ANDEGUAT-, College of Pharmacists and Chemists of Guatemala, Observatory of the Right to Food in Guatemala and Latin America and Latin American Society of Nutrition -SLAN.
Lcda. Lorena López Donado
Master in Industrial and Service Business Administration at University San Carlos de Guatemala.
Maestría en Administración Industrial y de Empresas de Servicios por la Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala.
Master in Animal Nutrition Tech Institute Universidad Tecnológica España.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine graduated from University San Carlos de Guatemala. Pork Farm 3508-1 Morphy Brown LLC.
Brown LLC Internship (The Ohio Program, Ohio State University) Jones County, North Carolina, United States of America, Professor at the Mariano Galvez of Guatemala University.
Dr. Rudy Castañeda
Lcda. Guadalupe Desireé López
Dra. Lisbeth Santizo
Lcda. Karen Dubon
Dra. Patricia Figueroa
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