Main discoveries and innovations 

  • Complications of cirrhosis such as ascites, acute bacterial infection and mainly, acute on chronic liver failure

Affiliations

Bolivian Society of Gastroenterology (SBG)
Honorary member

Brazilian Society of Hepatology
Honorary member (2006)

Academic Nacional de Medicina (Brazilian National Academy of Medicine)
Honorary member

Awards & Honors

Real Academia de Medicina de Canarias
1975, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Mauricio Roier, Sociedad Argentina de Gastroenterología
1995, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sociedad Catalana de Obstetricia
1997, Barcelona, Spain

Fundación Ciencias de la Salud
2000, Madrid, Spain

Hilfenhaus Award
2005

Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association
Prague

Recognition Award, European Association for the Study of the Liver
2011

Recognition Award, Asociación Española para el Estudio del Hígado (AEEH)
2016