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People Behind Puebla
Dr. Guillermo José Ruiz Argüelles
Director of HSCT Mexico-Clinica Ruiz Puebla facility
Born in Puebla, México, in 1951.
Training in Internal Medicine (1982) at the National Institute of Nutrition Salvador Zubirán / National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi.
Post-doctoral research fellow in Hematology by the Fogarty Foundation in the Department of Hematology of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA (1983).
Director General, Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Clínica RUIZ.
Director of the Teaching and Research Division of Laboratorios Clínicos de Puebla, Clínica RUIZ.
Professor of Hematology in the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla and the Universidad de las Americas Puebla.
Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology.
Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina de México – National Academy of Medicine -, of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores – National Research System, level III (highest) -, of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias – National Academy of Sciences – and of the Comisión de Investigación en Salud de México – Mexican Health Research Committee .
President of the Mexican Society of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
Past-president, Asociación de Medicina Interna de México – Mexican College of Physicians – (1989) and of Agrupación Mexicana para el Estudio de la Hematologia – Mexican Society of Hematology – (1993-1995).
Past-president of the Mexican Chapter of the Mayo Alumni Association (2008-2013).
Member of the Board of Directors of the Mayo Alumni Association (2009-2015).
Secretary General of the Interamerican Division of the International Society of Hematology (1996-2005).
Chair of Council of the International Society of Hematology (2010-2012)
Member of the Committee on Educational Affairs (1999-2002) and of the ad hoc Committee on International Outreach of the American Society of Hematology (1998-2001).
Fellow of the American College of Physicians, of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the American Society of Hematology .
Awards: “International Fogarty Fellowship 1982”, “Luis Sánchez Medal” 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014, the “Jorge Rosenkranz 1987”, “Estacio Gonzaga 1987”, “Aida Weiss 1987, 1989 and 1995”, “Everardo Landa 1988”, “Hector Labastida 1992”, “México Region Laureate Award 1996”, of the American College of Physicians, “Premio en Ciencias Médicas 1997”, of the V Festival Palafoxiano de Puebla, of the “Premio Carso-Funsalud” 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007 in the area of organ transplantation, the “Ruy Pérez Tamayo 2000”, the “Premio Nacional de Oncología 2004” the “Duc in altum” 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 by the Universidad Popular Autónoma de Estado de Puebla, the “Eduardo Liceaga 2006” by the Academia Nacional de Medicina, the “Miguel Otero Arce 2007”, delivered by the president of the country in the name of the Consejo General de Salud – General Health Council – , the Ignacio Zaragoza Medal, by the Puebla City Major and the “Premio Roberto Kretschmer Schmidt 2012” by the Academia Nacional de Medicina.
Elected Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumnus in October 2011 and elected Master of the American College of Physicians in April 2013.
Author of 683 papers in international and domestic peer-reviewed journals: 352 papers in full, 75 letters to the editor and 337 abstracts.
Author of 48 chapters in books, editor of seven books and co-editor of four.
Editor-in-chief of the Revista de Hematologia (México), member of the editorial board of peer-reviewed journals, both domestic (Revista de Investigación Clínica, Medicina Interna de México, Medicina Universitaria, Revista Médica del IMSS, Gaceta Médica de México and De Medicinis Expertis) and foreign (The Lancet Haematology-England, HemOnc Today-USA, International Journal of Hematology-Japan, Acta Haematologica-Switzerland, Biología & Clínica Hematologica-Spain, Revista Brasileira de Hematología e Hemoterapia – Brasil, Revista de Oncologia-Spain, Hematology / Oncology Stem Cell Therapy-Arabia and Hematology-England).
Dr. Guillermo José Ruiz Delgado
FACP. Medical Doctor. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de La Salle, Mexico City.
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENCY. Hospital Médica Sur / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México, D.F.
HEMATOLOGY FELLOWSHIP. Hospital Universitario. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon. Monterrey, N.L.
FELLOW: American Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation. Transplant Clinical Research Training Course.
POST-DOCTORAL Fellow. Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN. USA
MEDICAL DIRECTOR. Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna. Clinica Ruiz
PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE. HEMATOLOGY. Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla.
MEMBER. American Society of Hematology, USA; International Society of Hematology, ISH; Agrupación Mexicana para el Estudio de la Hematologia.
Certificate of National Board of Hematology. Consejo Mexicano de Hematologia. CONACEM.
Fellow American College of Physicians. ACP. USA.
Fellow Member. Academia Nacional de Medicina de México. Advisory Board of the Mexican Federal Government.
National Researcher Level II. Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia.
Dr. Juan Carlos Olivares-Gazca
Training in Medicine at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla.
Master in Public Health at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla.
Master in Hospital and Health Services Management at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla.
Internship training in the Methodist Hospital Houston, Memorial Hermann Houston.
Transplant coordinator, Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Clínica RUIZ.
President of the bioethics committee of Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Clínica RUIZ.
Researcher associated in Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Clínica RUIZ
Chair of the scientific committee of the Sociedad Mexicana de Terapia Celular y Trasplantes de Médula Ósea.
Review editor for Frontiers in Immunology and Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy
Author of 65 papers in international and domestic peer-reviewed journals.
