A CU Medicine provider.
I am a passionate person. When I am taking care of a patient, I devote all my care, senses, knowledge and compassion and respect to them. I treat my patients as if they were members of my own family.
I have two little kids, a girl and a boy, most of my time, when I am not working, is dedicated to enjoy them. I also enjoy doing Zumba.
Locations
720.848.0000Qualifications and experience
- Specialties
- Anesthesiology
- Gender
- Female
- Languages spoken
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English
Spanish
- Education
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Fellowship
University of Colorado (2012)
- Clinical interest for patients
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My many clinical interests include anesthesia for neurosurgical patients including surgery for Parkinson's disease. I also enjoy taking care of patient who need spine surgery and abdominal surgery.
- Research interest for patients
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My early scholarship focused on pharmacokinetics and advanced bioanalytical assay development using LC-MS/MS methodologies. I contributed to the development and validation of highly sensitive assays for opioids, immunosuppressants, and other therapeutic agents in plasma, whole blood, and dried blood spots, supporting advances in therapeutic drug monitoring and pediatric pharmacology. This work evolved into clinical pharmacology investigations examining opioid metabolism, intranasal fentanyl for breakthrough pain, extended-release epidural morphine, methadone quantification, and ondansetron pharmacokinetics in pregnant women and neonates.
My research portfolio subsequently expanded to perioperative outcomes and neuroanesthesia, with particular emphasis on spine surgery, intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM), and patient safety. I have contributed to consensus guidelines optimizing anesthetic management for transcranial motor evoked potential monitoring in complex spine surgery and have led or collaborated on studies examining toxicology screening in spine patients, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, obstructive sleep apnea and surgical risk, standardized neuromonitoring protocols, and intraoperative hemodynamic optimization. More recently, my work has incorporated systems-level and equity-focused research, including language proficiency and postoperative pain management. - Volunteer activities
I have had the opportunity of serving under privileged rural communities in my country Colombia. I also joined red cross for a medical mission in Colombia in 1999 after a earthquake devastated a whole State. I became an official Spanish medical interpreter for University of Colorado Hospital to be able to communicate with Spanish speaking only patients in a better way and to break the language barrier when they are approaching the operating room.
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