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Fallen in the Face of COVID-19:
Graduates of Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)
https://doi.org/10.37757/MR2020.V22.N4.13

The 2020 fall semester at Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) began on an especially somber note: honoring 17 of its alumni felled as they battled COVID-19 in their home countries and beyond. A few were recent graduates among the 30,047 from 118 countries who received scholarships from Cuba to study medicine at ELAM. Others were members of its first graduating class in 2005.

Their service on the front lines during the pandemic reflects the school’s mission to train low-income students the world over who pledge to care for communities and their patients, irrespective of ability to pay…and often in public health facilities at no charge.

MEDICC Review joins fellow ELAM graduates, students and faculty in paying tribute to the service of these talented, dedicated young health professionals, and expresses our deepest condolences to their families, friends, colleagues and mentors.

Many of the pictures in this photo-feature are not publication quality. That’s not why they were taken. Rest in peace, service, and confidence in the fact that health for all is possible.

Dr. Ericka Julissa Flores Torres
(1981–2020)
Peru
ELAM Class of 2005
Dr. Yessenia Herrera Ruiz
(1981–2020)
Panama
ELAM Class of 2005
Dr. Orlando Julio Isacc King
(1979–2020)
Venezuela
ELAM Class of 2005
Dr. Luis Fernando Orozco Andrade
(1977–2020)
Guatemala
ELAM Class of 2005
Dr. Ambrosio-Moyo Ondo Ayecaba
(1974–2020)
Equatorial Guinea
ELAM Class of 2007
Dr. Roger Layme Salgueiro
(1984–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2011
Dr. José Humberto Paredes Abanto
(1988–2020)
Peru
ELAM Class of 2011
Dr. Edgar Patricio Aynaguano Uño
(1984–2020)
Ecuador
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Mariano Luis Barrios Lijerón
(1989–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Sara Chambi Méndez
(1988–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Nemecio Choque Niño
(1983–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Martín Adolfo Morales Figueredo
(1986–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Juan Orellana Cardenas
(1986–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Hebert Ortuño Vallejos
(1985–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Job Gerardo Villanueva Núñez
(1987–2020)
Honduras
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Jhonny Josué Nilton Villegas Atora
(1986–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2012
Dr. Alberto Arteaga Jiménez
(1985–2020)
Bolivia
ELAM Class of 2013

Reed GA. Fallen in the face of COVID-19: graduates of Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM). MEDICC Rev. 2020 Oct;22(4):27–8. Available at: http://mediccreview.org/fallen-in-the-face-of-covid-19

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