Best longevity and wellness specialists in Monterrey: TOP 2 doctors

Dr. Lara is a passionate Honduran-born medical doctor with a Mexican heart. She earned her MD at the Catholic University of Honduras and has an Obesity Medicine post-graduate degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She continued into a Masters in Applied Nutrition with a focus on research at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City where her commitment to staying up-to-date and her passion for evidence-based medicine grew fonder.

She is member of the International Society for Cell Application, SCOPE certified by the World Obesity Federation, and certified for Sport’s and Exercise Nutrition.

Besides her clinical experience within multiple hospital ER’s and private practice, Dr. Lara has vast experience within the Regenerative Medicine area, where her biggest determination is to positively impact lives of her patients. She has also experience in administrative areas within Mexico, where besides overseeing treatments, she is up-to-date with Mexican regulatory laws (COFEPRIS). Her passions involve medicine and sports where she has managed to combine both, in her professional world as well as within her personal life.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Medical Doctor graduated from the University of Monterrey
• Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Mexico City, at the 20 de Noviembre Medical Center, ISSSTE – National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Prolotherapy at the University of Wisconsin
• Professor at the Annual Prolotherapy Course, University of Wisconsin and Hackett Hemwall Foundation
• Former professor of the Traumatology, Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation course at the Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine (ITESM)
• Attendance at National and International Congresses
• Diploma in Cardiac Rehabilitation from the Spanish Society of Rehabilitation
• Diploma in Cardiac Rehabilitation from COMEFYR

CERTIFICATIONS

• Medical Doctor, Registry with the Directorate General of Professions SEP: 432048
• Medical Doctor, Registry with the Ministry of Health: 54924
• Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, DGP, SEP: 4111184
• Certified and Recertified by the Mexican Board of Rehabilitation Medicine A.C. 0147

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Preparatoria Biology Professor, University of Monterrey. Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Monterrey (1982-1985). Instructor in Biology, Biophysics, and Physiology
• Founding Director of the Rehabilitation and Special Education Center of the DIF System (15 years)
• Founding Director of the Obispado Rehabilitation Center
• Director of the Hoga Rehabilitation Center
• Director of the Monterrey Physiatric Center
• Director of the Rehabilitation Specialty Centers Fisiomedix (2000) and Rehabilita (2010)
• Practicing specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Center at Hospital San José (1995-2015)

SOCIAL ASSISTANCE EXPERIENCE

• Collaborator, advisor, and council member of the Spina Bifida Association of Nuevo León A.B.P. from 1993 to the present (altruistic work)
• Design, organization, and implementation of care for people with disabilities in the Nuevo León DIF System (1985-1990)
• Collaborator with the Think First organization (altruistic work)
• International collaboration with the Hackett Hemwall Foundation, assisting and donating time and knowledge in altruistic medical missions in Guadalajara and Honduras from 2005 to the present
• Prolotherapy brigades from 2002 to the present (over 50)
• Director of the Prolotherapy Institute, academic director

MAIN DISTINCTIONS

• Honorary Mention in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency, 20 de Noviembre Medical Center. ISSSTE
• Chief Resident – Specialty in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 20 de Noviembre Medical Center. ISSSTE
• Secretary of the Traumatology and Orthopedics Society of Nuevo León
• Founding President of the Mexican College of Rehabilitation Medicine of Nuevo León
• State Delegate of the Mexican Board of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Certified and Recertified by the Mexican Board of Rehabilitation Medicine 0147
• Specialty License No. 4111184
• Member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Member of the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
• Member of the American College of Sports Medicine
• Member of the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine
• Member of the College of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine of Nuevo León
• Member of the Mexican College of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
• Hackett Hemwall Foundation
• Institute for Innovative Medicine (Munich, Germany)
• Mexican College of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine COMEFYR