Dr. Julio Enrique Ospina
Executive Director, Asociación Colombiana de Facultades de Medicina (ASCOFAME)Santafé de Bogotá
COLOMBIA
EDUCATION
1953 High School, Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Seńora del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
1958 - 1960 Pathology Monitor, University of Brazil, Medical School,Rio de Janeiro
1960 Medical Doctor, University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
1960 Pathology Intern, Hospital Santa Clara de Misericoordia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1961 - 1963 Pathology Resident Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medical School
1963 - 1964 Pathology Instructor Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medical School
1964 - 1968 Resident in Pathology Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., USA, and Post-Doctorate Cancer Research Fellow, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., USA
1968 - 1969 Scientific Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia.
1969 - 1970 Chief of the Electron Microscopy Department National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia
1969 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Pathology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Two terms)
1970 - 1974 Chief of Experimental Biology National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia
1972 - to date Chief of Pathology, Clinica Palermo Pathology Lab. Bogotá, Colombia
1974 - 1986 Director of the National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, Colombia
1987 - 1988 Director of the San Juan de Dios University Hospital, Bogotá, Colombia
1988 - 1989 Director of the Escuela Colombiana de Medicina Research Center, Bogotá, Colombia
1988 - 1991 Scientific Coordinator of the National Hospital Center Project, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
1992 - 1993 Director of the Universidad de la Sabana School of Medicine Project, Bogotá, Colombia (Jan. - July)
As of Oct 1992 Executive Director of the Colombian Association of Medical Schools, ASCOFAME.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
International Academy of Pathology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Latin American Society of Electron-Microscopy
Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science
Colombian Society of Pediatrics
Colombian Society of Pathology
Mexican Society of Oncological Studies
Spanish-American Society of Cell Biology
Colombian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Colombian Cancer Society
Pathology Society of Bogotá
Latin American Federation of Cancer Societies
International Union Against Cancer, Geneva, Switzerland
Member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, 1997
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
A Montejo, Colombia Medicine Award, 1976, Liver Vein Occlusion Disease Ultrastructure
National Medicine Award, Colombia, 1977 Phosphorus Poisoning, Ultrastructure.
First Latin American Award of the Pan-American Pathology Event, Best Experimentar Work. Liver Intoxication, Medellín, Colombia, 1988.
DISTINCTIONS
Diploma of the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, 1965, Evanston, Ill. USA.
Distinguished Visitor, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1971
Founder Member, International Physics Center. Bogotá, 1980
Founder Member Association of Graduates of the National Cancer Institute, Bogotá, 1986
Founder Member Association of Yale University Graduates, Bogotá
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC NOMINATIONS
Delegate of the Latin American Society of Electron Microscopy to Colombia 1972 - 1978
President of the Latin American Society of Electron Microscopy, 1978 - 1985
Vice President of the Latin American Cancer Institutes Association 1981
Executive Director, National Direction of Hospitals and Public Health Institutions, 1980
President of Latin American and Spanish American Congresses of Electron Microscopy and Cell Biology, Bogotá, Colombia, 1988
Member of the Steering Council of the Spanish American Society of Cell Biology, 1981
Vice-President of the Latin Americana Federation of Cancer Societies, 1981
Director of the Latin American Oncology School of the Latin American Federation of Cancer Societies, 1986
Cancer Expert Advisor, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Institute for International Medical Education.
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