Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
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Carlos J 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 and Training Program Director of Guía EXARMED, a top and best-selling general medicine treatise and medical education platform, which aids in the training of medical students and primary care providers of lower- and middle-income regions within Mexico and Latin America. In 2009, a couple of years after moving to the United States, he suffered from brain cancer. This experience changed his life and encouraged him fight poverty, disparities and disease around the world. In 2014 he co-founded Global Poverty Challenge 2030 #EndPoverty203, a platform of multidisciplinary professional-led networks that promote the global exchange of ideas to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030. Currently he is a Clinical Fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Internal Medicine and Global Health Equity resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also is pursuing a master in public health and clinical effectiveness at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Gonzalez Quesada has collaborated with the Harvard Global Equity Initiative in projects related to global oncology advocacy. He focuses on improving health care delivery to underserved populations with chronic diseases in lower- and middle-income countries. He has worked in United States, Rwanda, Haiti and Mexico. Dr. Gonzalez Quesada continues conducting research in cardiovascular diseases: mechanisms of cardiovascular injury and healing, diastolic dysfunction, diabetes-associated cardiomyopathy and pulmonary embolism.
