Ana Catalina Alvarez-Elías, MD, MSc, PhD.Sc
Ana Catalina graduated from pediatric nephrology, followed by a master’s and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She completed a fellowship in pediatric kidney transplantation at the Transplant & Regenerative Medicine Centre in the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, continuing with a combined clinical/research training in nephrology dialysis and transplantation at the same institution.
She is currently a Research Scientist at the Translational Clinical Research in the Renal Research Institute; an international Associate Professor of Pediatric Nephrology and Research in the Dirección de Invetigación Clínica at the Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gómez; and an invited international professor in the Pediatric Nephrology fellowship program and Centro de Investigaciones Renales at the Fundación para el Niño Enfermo Renal (FUNDANIER), Hospital Roosevelt in Guatemala. She is the Co-Chair of Clinical and Epidemiological Research at the Asociación Latinoamericana de Nefrología Pediátrica (ALANEPE) and an active communications/social media committee member. Ana Catalina is also working to obtain a clinical epidemiology doctoral degree at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto. Her research has focused on pharmacogenetics, pharmacoepidemiology, chronic kidney disease, kidney replacement therapies, and healthcare transition readiness to adulthood, targeting personalized medicine, developing translational research, and testing complex statistical models.
Ana Catalina aims to improve healthcare, academics, and research on patients and families dealing with kidney conditions, focusing on the disadvantaged population by building local capacities and dynamic, affordable tools for targeting equitable precision medicine.
