RamonGarcia Trabanino San SalvadorEl Salvador

Ramón García-Trabanino is a nephrologist from El Salvador. He has provided care to Mesoamerican endemic Nephropathy CKDu patients since 1999 when his team first described the disease and has published over 30 papers related to CKDu. His discovery and dedication have earned him the Salvadoran National Award for Medical Research and the SLANH Award of the President. Trained in Barcelona, Spain, works at Centre of Haemodialysis in San Salvador, as a volunteer nephrologist for the Emergency Social Fund for Health of Tierra Blanca -a community organization at the Bajo Lempa region- and as a Research Collaborator of the Boston University School of Public Health’s CKDu research group. He is the Vice President of SLANH, Chair of the SLANH Committee for Mesoamerican Nephropathy, and Board member of the SLANH Continuing Medical Education Institute (IFC SLANH).