NOSOTROS

Dra. Adriana Valverde Zúñiga

Neumóloga

Proyecto de investigación actual

  • Post-Lung Transplant Outcomes By DQ Mismatch Risk Stratification. Tutor: Meghan Aversa. Toronto, Canada

Licencia

  • Costa Rica Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica Since 2016
  • Ontario, Canada College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario 2022-2023

HORARIO

Miércoles: 3:30pm – 8:00pm 

Idiomas

  • Spanish (Native Speaker)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Italian (Intermediate)

Citas hospitalarias y tareas docentes

  • Toronto General Hospital. Toronto, Canada. Clinical Associate in The Lung Transplant Program. 2023
  • Hospital Calderón Guardia. San José, Costa Rica. Pulmonologist and Co-director of the Lung Transplant Program. 2021
  • Academic professor of the Department of Internal Medicine with focus on Pulmonology, School of Medicine Universidad Latina. San José, Costa Rica. 2021
  • Academic professor of the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine University of Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica. 2016
  • Academic Medical Internship San José, Costa Rica. Boston, USA. 2015

Reconocimientos y premios

  • Best average of all the postgraduate medical trainers in Costa Rica University of Costa Rica. 2020
  • Honor Graduation | Bachelor’s degree of Medicine and Surgery at University of Costa Rica. 2016
  • Internship in Harvard Medical School. Distinction with High honors. Boston, Massachusetts. April- May 2015
  • Best average course in Pediatrics and Genetics, excellence award. Dr. Yadira Estrada | School of Medicine, University of Costa Rica. 2014
  • Honors Scholarship for Academic Excellence | University of Costa Rica. 2012-2015

Preparación Académica

  • MD Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Doctor of Medicine.
    Graduation with Honors
    2010-2012
  • BS Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Bachelor of Medical Sciences
    Graduation with Honors
    2013-2016

Reuniones y cursos

  • ISHLT Denver, USA April 2023
  • ERS Congress Barcelona, Spain Sept 2022
  • ISHLT Boston, USA April 2022
  • Update in Pulmonary Hypertension. Prof Nazzareno Galié Virtual Course. May 2022.
  • ALAT Virtual Congress. Dec 2021
  • ERS Virtual Congress Sept 2021
  • Pulmonary Hypertension ERS course Laussane, Switcherland Feb 2020
  • ERS congress Madrid, Spain Sept 2019
  • ALAT congress Panama July 2019
  •  Pulmonology Latin American Congress Costa Rica March 2017
  • ENT Emergencies Course 2016
  • Medical update in the management of COPD June 2016
  • National Institute of Anatomy: Module II: Thorax
  • Santa Paula University, Costa Rica` 2016
  • INEMEC: Principles of Internal Medicine 2016
  • BLS: Basic Life Support, Canada 2023
  • ACLS: Advance Life Support, Canada 2023

Carteles y presentaciones orales

  • Valverde A, Aversa M. The Mysterious Enemy: Beyond A Few Episodes of Sudden Death Events. To be presented in Denver, ISHLT 2023.
  • A. Valverde Zuñiga1, J. Kiernan2, T. Martinu3, L. Singer4, R. Ghany2, J. Yeung2, M. Cypel4, S. Keshavjee5, K. Tinckam4, M. Aversa2. Risk Stratifying by DQA and Risk Epitope Mismatches in Lung Transplantation. To be presented in MINI ORAL SESSION: A NEW HOPE: Lung Transplant Candidate Selection in Denver ISHLT 2023.
  • Valverde A, Ramirez B, Jiménez M. Phenotyping Pulmonary Hypertension in Costa Rican population: Epidemiology and treatment response. ERS 2022, Barcelona
  • Valverde A, Ramirez B, Alvarado K, Jiménez M, Mora S, Rojas B. Hipertensión pulmonar en el contexto de Síndrome de Poems y enfermedad de Castellman: a propósito de un caso. ALAT. July, 2019
  • Valverde A, Ramírez B, Campos C, Camacho S, Camacho N, Alvarado D, Jimenez. Déficit de Alfa-1 Antitripsina, causa de Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica temprana: a propósito de una familia caso. ALAT. July, 2019

Posgrado y formación de especialidad

  • Toronto General Hospital. Amjera Transplant Center Toronto, Canada Clinical Fellow Lung Transplant. Jan 2022- Dec 2022
  • Pulmonary Hypertension elective. Toronto, Canada. Oct 2022
  • HLA Transplant immunology elective. Toronto, Canada.   Aug 2022
  • Hospital Calderón Guardia. San José, Costa Rica. Pulmonology Residency. 2019-2021
  • Hospital Calderón Guardia. San José, Costa Rica. Internal Medicine Residency. 2017-2019
  • Toronto General Hospital 2019. Amjera Transplant Center. Toronto, Canada. Clinical Observership in Lung Transplant

Publicaciones revisadas por pares

  • Solera JT, Arbol BG, Ferreira VH, Hu Q, Ierullo M, Valverde Zuniga A, Raslan I, Nasir A, Grizales C, Kurtesi A, Gingras AC, Humar A, Kumar D. Differential Serum Neutralization of Omicron sublineages in Patients Receiving Prophylaxis with Tixagevimab/cilgav mab. Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Mar.
  • Valverde A, Zamora M. Papilomatosis respiratoria: Nuevas terapias adyuvantes. Revista Clínica. Escuela de Medicina UCR-HSJD. 2016; 6(1) 81-86.
  • Arce I, Chaverri R, Valverde A. Intoxicación con salicilatos Revista Clínica Escuela de Medicina UCR- SJD. 2016; 6(1) 144-151.
  • Chaverri R, Arce I, Valverde A. Intoxicación con salicilatos. Revista Clínica Escuela de Medicina UCR HSJD. 2016; 6(1) 152: 158
  • Arguelles A, Valverde A. Cirugía Bariátrica: generalidades. Medicina Legal de Costa Rica, edición virtual. 2016; 33(1).
  • Salazar N, Villalobos M, Valverde A, Arroyo G. Corticoesteroides en shock séptico ¿Cuándo utilizarlos? Revista Clínica Escuela de Medicina UCR-HSJD. 2016;6(2) 11-18