I am a member of the School of Medicine San Fernando, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Class of 1973 (UNMSM). I completed my training in Internal Medicine at Hospital Guillermo Almenara and in Rheumatology at the Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social. My mentors were the late Dr. Gregorio Mintz (Mexico) and Enrique Robles (Perú). The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico granted me the title of specialist in Rheumatology, revalidated by the School of Medicine of San Fernando, UNMSM. Upon return to Perú in 1982, I went back to the Almenara Hospital where I performed different functions and responsibilities, as Head of the Education and Research Unit, Head of the Department of Medicine III, Medical Director and finally Head of the Rheumatology Department until my retirement in 2010. Years before (1978) I began teaching in San Marcos and was promoted years later as Associated Professor (Profesor Principal). During this time I cooperated in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching as well as in the training of resident physicians of the specialty until my retirement. Since 1984 until 2010, our department formed 26 new peruvian rheumatologists within the medical residency program in rheumatology, G. Almenara Hospital, ESSALUD. Lima Perú. During mine academic and service professional career, I have been honored with several distinctions, particularly for research work in the field of Clinical Rheumatology and by my care work at the Almenara Hospital, a hospital that is part of the Social Security system of Perú - ESSALUD.