Jorge  Lazareff

Professor Emeritus
Department: School of Medicine
jlazareff@mednet.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Latin America, Medicine

In 2014, Professor Lazareff developed a program to foster clinical research by introducing to medical students and graduates the fundamentals of Critical Thinking applied to interpreting clinical evidence. The program runs in Medical Schools in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and El Salvador, and is currently active in Peru and Nicaragua. The course consisted of seven lectures delivered in Spanish via the Internet. In 2019 received an Honorary Degree in Medicine from UNAN-Managua. In 2022 appointed Docente Extraordinario by the Universidad Científica del Sur (Lima, Peru).