Erika Quishpe, M.D.     

 EKQUISHPEN@puce.edu.ec

Research group: 

Areas of research: Infectious, immunological and chronic diseases. 

   Current research:  

• Diabetes
• Chronic diseases

   Education:

• Ongoing. Ph.D. in Public Health. Facultad de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, de la Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. 
• 2007. Specialist in Family Medicine. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
• 1999. Specialist in Tropical Medicine and Disease Control. Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba, Bolivia. 
• 1997. Doctor in Medicine. Universidad Central del Ecuador.

  Current position: 

• Adjunct investigator to the group of Dra. Verónica Páez at the Center for Research in Health in Latin America.
• Undergraduate and Graduate Professor of the School of Medicine. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

  Recent publications: 

• Dueñas Espin, I. , Quishpe, E & Montalvo, H. (2021). Guía de evaluación auditiva en atención primaria. https://edipuce.edu.ec/guia-de-evaluacion-auditiva-en-atencion-primaria/ 

• Guerrero, A. C., Fernández, H. A., León-Cáceres, Á., Armijos-Acurio, L., Erazo, C., Jimbo-Sotomayor, R., ... & Dueñas-Espín, I. (2021). To what extent is the altitude at which we live associated with 10-year cardiovascular risk?. medRxiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.22.21255947 

  Orcid:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7576-1168 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erika-Quishpe