“Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits.“

“Doesn´t matter how slow you go, as long as you don´t stop” - Confucius.

“Enthusiasm without knowledge has no value.”

“Dream big. Work hard. Don’t be an a**hole.” - Mike Shinoda.

“Lack of experience is not an excuse to flinch, but one more opportunity to keep learning.” - Eitan Scher Nemirovsk

"Discipline will sooner or later trump intelligence "- Yokoi Kenji

“Even when nothing changes, if I change, everything changes" - Marcel Proust

"Be more, to serve better" - Ignacio de Loyola

“Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.”- Hippocrate

“The passion of learning, the wonder at observing, the dedication to register and analyze, the joy and art of sharing, the wish to enjoy, the duty of caring, the call of service, I hope these will motivate and guide my life.”- Pedro Quiroga

"The important thing in science is not to get new data, but to discover new ways to think about them.” - William Lawrence Brag

"Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity." - Will Durant

“Becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self." - Michelle Obama

“I am a Medical Doctor from Universidad de los Andes, ex-volleyball player and National College Volleyball Champion in 2018.”

“The greatest pleasure beyond what makes us animals, is the use of reason. I try to be a great student every day, in order to one day become a great educator.” - Sebastián Gutiérrez

“Tell me, and I will listen; Teach me, and I'll remember; Involve me, and I will learn" - Benjamin Franklin

“I am a doctor passionate about ophthalmology and chronic diseases. I have strong communication, research, and public health skills. Besides medicine, I like jazz, salsa, vallenato, running, swimming, and trying new foods.”

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.” - Bertrand Russell

“Even if I am currently not very active concerning projects and publications, I care deeply for research, and I know that all that knowledge can be applied to my specialty. I continue, however, to put into practice the basic tenets of healthy living, and in this way I always remember our research group”.

"We must realize that we can die at any time, we have only the present to be alive. If we surrender to the angel of death, we shall be happy forever. Why? Because the angel of death takes with him the past, so that life may go on. From each past moment we carry the dead part, and we continue living only in the present (...). These are the happiest moments of life: When your true self emerges, when you don´t care for the past and don’t care for the future". Dr. Miguel Ruiz.

“I am a physician and researcher graduated from Universidad de los Andes, with an MSc degree in Biological Sciences, focusing on epigenetics. I am interested in the study of the mechanisms that influence the predisposition to developing metabolic diseases, especially obesity, diabetes and their complications. I am particularly interested on how these conditions disproportionately affect remote regions and aboriginal or indigenous communities. My fields of interest are cardiovascular health, epigenetics, metabolic memory, polygenic risk scores, metabolomics, genetic engineering and the maintenance of cell identity.”