Pedro ordúñez, MD, director, gustavo aldereguía lima provincial teaching hospital, cienfuegos.

Dr Pedro Ordúñez, a leading public health expert and internist, is Director of the Cienfuegos Provincial Teaching Hospital and Associate Professor at the National School of Public Health in Havana. Dr Ordúñez has published extensively in Cuban and international peer-reviewed journals, most recently in the American Journal of Epidemiology, as co-author of Impact of Energy Intake, Physical Activity, and Population-wide Weight Loss on Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Mortality in Cuba, 1980-2005.[1] In 1994, he was selected as a Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) post-graduate fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Thereafter, he obtained a Doctorate in Health Sciences from Cuba's National School of Public Health. Dr Ordúñez has traveled throughout the Americas as a chronic disease consultant for PAHO and has served locally in the PAHO-coordinated CARMEN Network, which focuses on the integrated prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases and their risk factors. He is a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and has received the nationalhealth award on several occasions. Dr Ordúñez sat down with MEDICC Review for an exclusive interview to discuss his insights into the complex relation between poverty, development, and chronic disease.