Eduardo García Luna Martínez, Vice President of Health Sciences, was elected to be part of the board of directors of the Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina (ALAFEM – The Association of Medical Schools of Latin America and the Caribbean).

One of ALAFEM’s aims is to attain better, higher-quality medical education processes in Latin America, thus adapting to the social needs of each region in order to achieve better service for patients.

The Roberto Garza Sada Pro Magistro Award is an honor that UDEM grants each year to faculty members who have distinguished themselves for their excellence and promotion of values, as well as for the impact of their work on the university community and on society.

The University’s president acknowledges teachers receiving this award as the “heart of the Institution” and the “University’s neurons” since they are the main resource for the generation of knowledge, and they infuse vitality and dynamism as they convey it to students.

The Health Sciences Division at the Universidad de Monterrey has become the eighth Cardiovascular Tissue Bank nationwide and UDEM is the first university to obtain this distinction bestowed by the Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios (COFEPRIS – Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks).

Out of a total of 498 Tissue Banks registered with the Centro Nacional de Transplantes (CENATRA – National Center for Transplants), at present only seven Heart Banks operate in the country and one of them has partial registration, just for heart valves.

The Clinical Simulation Laboratory of the Universidad de Monterrey has been officially established as an American Heart Association (AHA) International Training Center. Thus, UDEM has obtained authorization to teach the courses in the Emergency Cardiovascular Care program, as it is now part of the AHA Training Center Network.

El Dr. Román Vidal Tamayo, profesor e investigador de la UDEM, y el equipo de la Dra. Viviana Zomosa, de la Facultad de Medicina de la UANL, descubrieron una variante que puede ayudar a revertir el proceso de la enfermedad de Alzheimer.

El alzhéimer es una enfermedad cognitiva, pues se caracteriza por problemas de memoria y razonamiento; degenerativa, ya que una vez que empieza el paciente empeora; e incapacitante, pues va a llegar un momento en el que este no va a poder llevar a cabo sus actividades habituales.