The predominance of women in the world is an uncontested reality that is causing changes in different aspects of daily life. In the world of interventional cardiology, the number of women compared to men has always been very low. However, this process is slowly beginning to change because more and more women are showing their…
SOLACI SOLidario: The Program Helping Those Who Need It the Most
In Latin America and the Caribbean, thousands of people lack medical insurance and economic resources to obtain access to a diagnostic cardiovascular procedure and/or percutaneous therapy should they need it. The primary purpose of SOLACI’s SOLidario (which means solidary in Spanish) program is to grant these patients access to these procedures in renowned medical…
Martínez Ríos: “SOLACI Went from a Dream to a World-Renowned Society”
Dr. Marco Antonio Martínez Ríos comes from a family of physicians. “Studying Medicine was the most natural thing in the world for me,” admits Martínez Ríos, who in 1993 became president of the Latin American Group of Interventional Cardiology (Grupo Latinoamericano de Cardiología Intervencionista, GLACI), the seed that would grow to become SOLACI in 1994. …
Hugo Londero: “The arrival of interventional cardiology has changed many physicians’ personalities”.
He grew up in the 40s, surrounded by cap screws, dental crowns and damp from the Paraná River. His father, mother and two brothers, were dentists. Years later, his daughter and niece would also become dentists. But since his early years, Hugo Londero had known he would become a physician. He was certain his greatest…
Ricardo Lluberas: “My greatest concern is that the next generations of cardiologists be guided by ethical principles”.
Professor for over 40 years, an Uruguayan born in Paris, but proud of being “charrúa”, and passionate about cardiology since very young, Dr. Ricardo Lluberas is today the president of SOLACI not by mere chance: he has nurtured his career and his relationship with this institution with true love, even before SOLACI took its first…