Joint Academic Council
The Council is a MEDICC advisory body and includes both
the MEDICC, Inc. Board of Directors and the following Cuban colleagues:
Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate DSc PhD
Co-Chair, MEDICC Joint Academic Council
Director, National School of Public Health, Havana
Chair, Cuban Council of Scientific Societies in Health
Madelyn Montes de Oca Día MD MS
Secretary, MEDICC Joint Academic Council
International Relations Group, National School of Public Health
Tania Aguilar Guerra MD MS
Chief Consultant,
MEDICC Gateways Travel Services
Rubén García López de Villavicencio MD
Associate Professor
Health Leadership Division
National School of Public Health
Raúl Herrera Valdés DSc PhD
Full Professor
Medical University of Havana
National Institute of Nephrology
Beatriz Marcheco Teruel MD PhD
Director, National Medical Genetics Center
Full Professor, Medical University of Havana
Member, Ministry of Public Health Task Force on the Human Genome Project
Pedro Más Bermejo MD PhD
Full Professor and Distinguished Researcher
Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute
Full Professor, National School of Public Health
Guillermo Mesa Ridel MD PhD
Principal Professor and Coordinator, International H.E.L.P. Public Health Courses on Management of Humanitarian Aid, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Professor and Director of Public Health in Special Situations, National School of Public Health
Ileana Morales Suárez MD MS
National Director, Science and Technological Innovation, Ministry of Public Health
Chair, National Medical Education Quality Assurance Commission
Yoandra Muro Valle MD MS
Rector, Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)
Eduardo Ojito Magaz MS Ch.E.
Director, Molecular Immunology Center (CIM), Havana
Manuel Raíces Pérez-Castañeda PhD
Molecular Biologist
Consultant to the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB)
Sonia Resik Aguirre MD MS PhD
Chair, Virology Department and Director, Polio Laboratory Network
Full Professor and Senior Researcher
Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute
Salvador Tamayo Muñiz MD
Director, National Program for Prevention & Control of Non-communicable Disease, Ministry of Public Health
María Luisa Zamora Rodríguez MS PhD
Director, Scientific and Technological Potential
Ministry of Science, Technology & the Environment