Professional experience

Founder

EpiGene Rejuvenation L.L.C. · Houston, Texas

• AgePace — a physician-authored protocol built from this surgical and scientific training: clocks, biomarker tracking, and referrals to partner recovery facilities. Not a brick-and-mortar clinic.
• Fifteen-plus years of research in aging biology, integrated with three decades of orthopedic science — not a wellness résumé.

Current

Surgical First Assistant, M.D.

Memorial Hermann Memorial City · Leading Surgical Assistants · Houston, Texas

• Full-time and on-call first assist across joint reconstruction, sports medicine, spine, neurosurgery, hand and microsurgery, trauma, foot and ankle, general surgery, and OB/GYN.
• Assigned to the joint reconstructive unit. Certified on the da Vinci Xi robotic platform.

Medical writer and consultant

Orthofix · Remote

• Health hazard evaluations, CERs and MDRs, SOP and medical-information review, and medical-education support for external partners.

Surgical First Assistant, M.D.

University of Miami Hospital · Miami, Florida

• Multispecialty first assist with emphasis on joint reconstruction and robotic surgery (da Vinci Xi).

Surgical First Assistant, M.D.

Mercy Hospital, Kendall Regional, Aventura Medical Center · SpecialtyCare · Miami, Florida

• Added cardiovascular and thoracic experience, including endoscopic vein harvest training (Maquet EVH, Terumo EVH).

Licensed Surgical First Assistant, M.D.

Universal Surgical Partners and independent placement · Houston, Texas

• Memorial Hermann, Houston Methodist, HCA, and other Houston operating rooms. Robotics, EVH, and high-volume reconstructive work.

Clinical Specialist, Sports Medicine & OrthoBiologics

Arthrex, Inc. · Asia-Pacific, Caribbean, and Latin America

• Surgeon education, cadaver labs, product training, and surgical-technique authorship. Wrote and translated techniques, manuals, and video scripts into Spanish and Portuguese.
• Built a global hyperlinked med-ed resource for instruments, animations, and competitive comparison.

Orthopedic consultant and clinical educator

Fraser Health · Burnaby Hospital · BD · Vancouver, British Columbia

• Cast clinic and ER fracture care. Redesigned scheduling and materials, cutting cost ~20% and lifting clinic income ~80% while quadrupling patient throughput.
• Hospitalist support for nine staff orthopedic surgeons. In-service training on BD devices across Fraser, Vancouver Coastal, and Island Health.

Partner and director · Orthopedic surgeon

Sports Clinic Lomas · Mexico City

• Reconstructive joint surgery and sports medicine in a private clinic dedicated to integral orthopedic care.

VP Marketing, Medical Science Liaison, Medical Affairs

Millennium Technology Inc. · Latin America and Spain

• Opened the Latin-American market for the first open MRI on the global market. Negotiated EDC and Royal Bank of Canada credit structures for Mexico and stood up local operations.

Medical Science Liaison and clinical fellow

Cambie Surgery Centre · Dr. Brian Day · Vancouver, British Columbia

• Sports medicine and arthroscopy under Dr. Brian Day, later president of the Canadian Medical Association and AANA.
• Implemented a digitally integrated OR system with ConMed/Linvatec across six rooms in Canada’s first private hospital of its kind. Device development with Delfi Medical (James McEwen).

Pediatric orthopedic surgeon

IMSS Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI — Pediatric Hospital · Mexico City

• Third-level national referral: bone cancer, hemophilia, congenital spine and limb disease, microsurgery, and hand surgery.
• Led the institution’s first pediatric limb salvage for bone cancer, a mother–child homologous bone transfer protocol, and a national protocol for hemophilic hemarthrosis that cut first-year treatment cost substantially.

Partner · Orthopedic surgeon

Ortopedistas Asociados, Hospital Ángeles de las Lomas · Mexico

• Private orthopedic and traumatology practice for children and adults.