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LÓPEZ-GATELL AND BIOE THIC S IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC Diana Jacqueline Anguiano Castro Graduated in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara. In 2018 she participated as a speaker in a colloquium held by the same university. In 2020 she took a diplomated in editorial design from the CAAV (University of Audiovisual Media). He works in the teaching area from 2017 to date. Recently, he started to support in several processes about the edition of a next philosophy and literature magazine.
In this way, treatments have been developed in various branches of medicine to help us combat everyday illnesses and diseases. Clinical research goes beyond experimental studies, however, since the roles played by both patients and researchers are of vital importance. It is on this last point that the present text will focus.
Clinical trials were designed to diagnose, prevent, or offer treatments for various illnesses. In some cases, the researchers themselves have served as volunteer subjects in order to learn how a substance functions and what reactions it has on the human body.
López-Gatell Ramírez was born on 22 February 1969 to Dr. Francisco López-Gatell Trujillo and his Mexican wife Margarita Ramírez Duarte, a nurse. His father, born in Tarragona, Spain, in 1925, studied chemistry before becoming a surgeon, specializing in urology, through the Massachusetts General Hospital. Hugo LópezGatell attended the medical school of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), graduating in 1994. Six years later he specialized in internal medicine at the Instituto
PROFILE
At different moments in the history of the world there have existed people dedicated to saving lives. People who act only after acquiring knowledge that is typically described as “errorfree.” Which implies that behind every triumph there are countless errors that have been gradually corrected until the desired goal is achieved, to which many minds, bodies, and opinions have contributed.
Over the past year, the health of human beings has been gravely affected by the Covid-19 virus. In Mexico, a public health expert has undertaken to disseminate the most relevant information regarding the virus, but before the pandemic, he was little known on the international stage and even lacked recognition in his own country, in spite of being a public figure. That has all changed now for this epidemiologist, researcher, academic, and public servant, Hugo LópezGatell Ramírez, who has occupied the post of Under-Secretary for the Prevention and Health Promotion since December of 2018.
