Pediatric resident
Universidad Libre, Cali. Colombia.
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Juliana Mejía-Mertel, M.D. Pediatric Resident "Universidad Libre, Seccional Cali".
PERSONAL:
Born in Cali, Colombia
Other nationalities: German
Visa Status: Visa Waiver Program (German citizen)
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Bachelor’s degree, Eudora High School, 2009. Eudora, KS, USA.
M.D. National University of Colombia, School of Medicine, 2015. Bogotá, Colombia.
POSITIONS:
2014- 2015 Medical Intern, San Vicente de Paul Hospital / National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
2016- 2017 Physician, attending outpatients. EPS (Basic Health Insurance) Sura, Medical Center La Flora. Cali, Colombia.
Description: Attending outpatients and priority attention patients. Monitoring of growth and development in children. Minor procedures (cast and splint immobilization, small surgical sutures, onychectomy, wart cauterization)
2017- 2018 Attending physician, Emergency department and inpatient services. Fundación Hospital la Misericordia (Pediatric Hospital). Bogotá, Colombia.
Description: night shifts as general practitioner in the pediatric emergency department attending triage II and III. Follow up inpatient services.
2018- 2019 Pediatric Resident, Universidad Libre, Seccional Cali. Colombia.
SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS:
2009-2015 Programa PAES (Best High School Graduate´s Special Admission Program) Scholarship during the entire medical studies. National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
2019 Second best research poster, clinical trials category, CARE in pediatrics conference, Boston Children´s Hospital (II Conferencia de las Américas).
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
2018 GRINPED (Investigation Group in Pediatrics)
ABSTRACTS/PUBLICATIONS:
1. Acevedo- Roa G, Astudillo -De Haro E, Mejía- Mertel J, Mejía- Zapata L, Gómez- Urrego JF. (2019). Pediatric Patients with Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Fundación Clínica Infantil Club Noel, Cali, Colombia. Case series report. 2000- 2018. Awarded in the International Congress Care in Pediatrics II, Boston Children´s Hospital (II Conferencia de las Américas), as case series.
2. J. Mejía-Mertel, et al. Clinical profile of human Tlymphotropic virus type I: a forgotten infection in pediatrics. Infectio 2021;
25(1): 28-32.