ALBERTO PEÑA, M.D., FAAP, FACS, FRCS (England), FRCS (Edinburgh)
Revised: 08/17/2016
ACADEMIC TITLE AND ADDRESS
Director International Center for Colorectal Care
Children's Hospital Colorado
Professor, University of Colorado
Division of Pediatric Surgery, 13123 East 16th Avenue, Box 323, Anschutz Medical Campus. Aurora- CO Phone (720) 777-9448, e-mail :
PERSONAL DATA
Date and place of birth: August 16, 1938, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
LICENSURE: NEW YORK 166409-1 (active)
OHIO 35-087432 (active)
COLORADO DR.0056140 (active)
EDUCATION: M.D. Degree Military Medical School, Mexico City, January 1957 to December 1962
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
January 1963 to December 1966:
Internship and Surgical Residency, Central Military Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico
February 14, 1968:
ECFMG Examination #098-562
February 1969 to October1969:
Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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November1969 to October 1970:
Assistant Resident in Surgery, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
November 1970 to December 1971:
Senior Resident in Surgery, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
January 1972 to June 30th, 1985:
Surgeon-in-Chief, National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico and
Professor of Pediatric Surgery, University of Mexico
July 1985 to May 2005:
Chief, Pediatric Surgery, Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish, North Shore Health Systems, New York, New York and Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, StonyBrook University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York
June 2005 to July, 2011:
Director, Colorectal Center for Children, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
July 2011 to December 2015:
Founder Director, Colorectal Center for Children, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
February 2016 – present
Director, International Center for Colorectal Care, Children's Hospital Colorado
Professor, University of Colorado
DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
2008 LADD Medal Award Recipient – American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. Boston, Massachusetts
2002 COE Medal Award. Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons, San Diego, California
2015 REHBEIN Medal – European Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Slovenia
1985 ROBERT E. GROSS Award 7th Annual. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas
2002 Award to Academic Excellence presented at the Pan-American Congress of Pediatric Surgery, Acapulco, Mexico.
2001 ROBERT E. GROSS Thirteenth Annual Memorial Lecture. Children’s Hospital Boston.
2010 Awarded the Merit Melitensi – Order of Malta
1971 Meyer Award given to distinguished foreign residents. The Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
1991 Third Prize for videotape "Transanorectal Repair of a Urogenital Sinus,” presented at the American Urological Association in Toronto, (co-authored with Dr. R. Bruce Filmer)
2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ronald McDonald House. Cincinnati - OH
1962 Award Jesus Lozoya to the Best Medical Student in Pediatrics. Military Medical School. Mexico
1978 Award for the best paper "Research in Mexican Pediatric Surgery," XI National Meeting of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico.
1978 Award for the best surgical movie "Esophageal Replacement," XI National Meeting of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico.
1978 General Award for the best paper on Congenital Malformations, "Deformities of the Anterior Chest Wall,” XI National Meeting of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico.
1982 Award to the Best Clinical Case "Pancreatectomy in the Newborn,” XII National Meeting of Pediatric Surgery. Mexico.
1982 General Award to the Best Clinical Case "Rectocloacal Fistula,” XV National Meeting of Pediatric Surgery. Mexico.
1985 Annual Award of the Mexican Academy of Surgery for the paper "An Original Treatment for Anorectal Malformations.” Mexico.
1988 First Prize for Best Paper "Persistent Cloaca,” XXI Congress of the Mexican Association of Pediatric Surgery, Tabasco, Mexico.
1989 Honorary Guest, XXII National Congress of the Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgeons, Puebla, Mexico.
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1990 Rudolfo Nieto Award. 9th Meeting of Pediatrics Hospital del Niño, Tabasco, Mexico
1992 First Prize for Best Paper "Funcíon rectal despues del abordaje sagital posterior Estudio Manométrico" presented at the 25th National Congress of Pediatric Surgery Mazatlan, Mexico.
HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS
Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgeons.
Brazilian Association of Pediatric Surgery.
Serbian Association of Colorectal Surgeons, Belgrade.
The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Scotland.
Brazilian Academy of Pediatric Surgeons, Brasilia, Brazil.
Cuban Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Colombian Society of Pediatric Surgeons
Equatorian Society of Pediatrics
Greek Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Guatemalan Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Israel Society of Pediatric Surgery
Peruvian Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Philippine College of Surgeons
Polish Association of Pediatric Surgeons
University de la Frontera Temuco, Chile
ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES:
· American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Fellow
· American College of Surgeons, Fellow
· American Pediatric Surgical Association, Member
· American Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons, Fellow
· Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Member
· British Association of Pediatric Surgeons Council, Overseas Member
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· Chilean Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Corresponding Member
· Mexican Academy of Pediatrics, Academician of Number
· Mexican Association of Professors of Pediatrics, Member
· Mexican Academy of Surgery, Academician of Number
· Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgeons, Member and ex-President (1984-1986)
· Panamerican Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Founding Member
EDITORIAL COMMITTEES
· Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Associate Editor
· Pediatric Surgery International, Editorial Committee
· Techniques in Coloproctology, Member, Editorial Board
· Boletin Médico del Hospital Infantil de México, Editorial Committee
· Research in Surgery, Scientific Committee
· TEF/VATER National Support Network, Medical Advisory Board
· Pullthrough Network, Medical Advisory Board
· Colorectal Club, Scientific Committee
· Journal of the Ecuatorian Society of Pediatrics
COURSE TEACHING
Director and Instructor of Biannual 3 day intensive workshop and teaching course with live surgery demonstration on the Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Problems in Children (61 courses).
2 – 3 similar courses per year in different countries (more than 100).
GUEST SPEAKER/PROFESSORSHIP NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL 474 times - see attachment A
BOOKS
1. Peña A: The Acutely Ill Child. IMAN Publications, Mexico, D.F., 1976
2. Peña A: Therapeutic Decisions in the Acutely Ill Child. Ed Inter-americana, Mexico, D.F., 1983.
3. Peña A: Atlas of surgical management of anorectal malformations, Springer-Verlag, Inc., New York, 1989
4. Peña A: Monologues of a Pediatric Surgeon, Book Masters, Ohio-USA, 2011.
5. Peña A, Bischoff A: Surgical Treatment of Colorectal Problems in Children, Springer Switzerland, 2015.
BOOK CHAPTERS / MONOGRAPHS: 87 - see attachment B
ARTICLES: 207- see attachment C
VIDEOS: 15 – see attachment D
ANIMATIONS: 27 - see attachment E
ATTACHMENT A – Guest Speaker/Professorship (474 times)
1. Visiting Professor and Guest Speaker, Mexican Societies and Hospitals 341 times, prior to
1985.
2. Visiting Professor, Children's Hospital Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts, Jan.8-9, 1986
3. Visiting Professor, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New
York, Jan. 14, 1986
4. Visiting Professor, Hartford Hospital, Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, Jan. 17, 1986
5. Visiting Professor, The Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Feb. 20-21, 1986.
6. Visiting Professor, Children's Orthopedic Hospital & Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 24-28, 1986.
7. Visiting Professor, Henrietta Engleston Hospital for Children, Atlanta, Georgia, March 12, 1986.
8. Visiting Professor, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, March 17, 1986.
9. Guest Speaker, Pediatric Urology for the Practicing Urologist, Schneider Children's Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, April 5-6, 1986.
10. Visiting Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 16-19, 1986
11. Visiting Professor, The Albany Medical College of Union University, Albany, New York, May 25-26, 1986.
12. Visiting Professor, Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California, June 15-18, 1986.
13. Visiting Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, August 8, 1986.
14. Visiting Professor, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1986.
15. Visiting Professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Aug.19, 1986.
16. Visiting Professor, National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico, Sep. 8-12, 1986.
17. Guest Speaker, Presidential Address. Annual Meeting of the Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico, Sep. 11-17, 1986.
18. Poster Presentation, American Urological Association, New York City, New York, May 20, 1986.
19. Guest Speaker, General Surgery Update, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, July 8-12, 1986.
20. Guest Speaker, 19th National Congress of Pediatric Surgery, Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgeons, San Luis, Mexico, Sep. 12-16, 1986.
21. Visiting Professor, Henrietta Engleston Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 9-11, 1986.
22. Guest Speaker, The Douglas Stephens International Symposium on Anorectal and Urological Anomalies, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 14-16, 1986.
23. Guest Speaker, State University of New York, Syracuse, New York, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1986.
24. Visiting Professor, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 4-6, 1986.
25. Guest Speaker, 7th Annual Medical Congress of the Southwest Association of Hispanic
American Physicians, Nov. 7-10, 1986.
26. Guest Speaker, International Course on Gastrointestinal Medicine in Surgery, British American Cowdray Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 10-14, 1986.
27. Visiting Professor, the Prince of Wales Children's Hospital, Randwick, Australia, Nov. 24-26,
1986.
28. Visiting Professor, Mater Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, Nov.27-29, 1986.
29. Visiting Professor, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, Dec.10-12, 1986.
30. Visiting Professor, Milwaukee Children's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jan. 14-17, 198.7
31. Visiting Professor, National Institute of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 9-18, 1987.
32. Visiting Professor, Children's Hospital of British Colombia, Vancouver, British Colombia, Feb. 24, 1987.
33. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Westchester County Medical Center, Valhalla, New York, March 5, 1987.
34. Visiting Professor, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, England, March 20-25, 1987.
35. Visiting Professor, Institute of Child Health, University of London, London, England, March 27, 1987.
36. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, Huntington Hospital, Huntington, New York, April 7, 1987.
37. Visiting Professor, Vancouver Children's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 23-25, 1987.
38. Guest Speaker, Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Seattle, Washington, April 25- May 2, 1987.
39. Visiting Professor and Guest Speaker, Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons, Kobe, Japan, May 24-June 3, 1987.
40. Visiting Professor, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, July 10-11, 1987.
41. Visiting Professor, Course on Anorectal Malformations, Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Saltzburg, Austria, August 1-10, 1987
42. Visiting Professor, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., August 21, 1987.
43. Visiting Professor, Cali, Colombia, South America, September 5-12, 1987.
44. Visiting Professor, National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico, September 13-16, 1987.
45. Guest Speaker, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Oct. 1-3, 1987.
46. Visiting Professor, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 4-9, 1987.
47. Visiting Professor, 7th Congress of Asian & Pacific Federations of ACS, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 3-8, 1987.
48. Visiting Professor, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel, Jan. 18-24, 1988.
49. Guest Speaker, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Feb. 2, 1988.
50. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, Feb. 26, 1988.
51. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatric Surgery, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York, March 19, 1988.
52. Visiting Professor, Hospital Infantil La Paz, Madrid, Spain, March 1-5, 1988.
53. Visiting Professor, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India, March 6-12, 1988.
54. Visiting Professor, Hospital de la Misericordia, Bogota, Colombia, April 20-23, 1988.
55. Visiting Professor, Hospital del Nino, Caracas, Venezuela, April 18-20, 1988.
56. Visiting Professor, National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico, May 23-24, 1988.
57. Guest Speaker, 50th Anniversary PEMEX Medical Services, Mexico City, Mexico, May 24-27, 1988.
58. Visiting Professor, University Hospital, Edmonton, Canada, June 23-24, 1988.
59. Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, July 14, 1988.
60. Guest Speaker, XXI National Congress of Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgery, Mexico City, Mexico, Sep. 13-16, 1988.
61. Guest Speaker, The British Association of Pediatric Surgeons, XXXV Annual International Congress, Athens, Greece, Sep. 21-24, 1988.
62. Visiting Professor, Sophia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece, Sep. 26, 1988.
63. Visiting Professor, Course on Anorectal Malformations, 12th Brazilian Congress Pediatric Surgery, Fortaleza, Brazil, Oct. 6-14, 1988.
64. Guest Speaker, Section on Urology, American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, Oct. 14-16, 1988.
65. Visiting Professor and Guest Speaker, 11th Congress of Panamerican Association of Pediatric Surgeons and 8th Peruvian Congress of Pediatric Surgery. Post congress Course on Anorectal Malformations, Lima, Peru, Oct.18-Nov. 4, 1988.
66. Visiting Professor, XVII Congress of Chilean Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Course on Anorectal Malformations, Valdivia, Chile and Temuco, Chile, Nov. 19-25, 1988.
67. Visiting Professor, Ospedale General Regionale, Treviso, Italy, Dec. 5-10, 1988
68. Visiting Professor, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan. 11-15, 1989
69. Guest Speaker, 1st Congress of GEN, Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 6-11, 1989.
70. Visiting Professor, Course on Anorectal Malformations, 7th Congress Asian Surgical Association, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, Feb. 16-25, 1989
71. Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, March 10, 1989
72. Visiting Professor, Course on Anorectal Malformations, Universita Degu Studi de Parma, Parma, Italy, March 20-25, 1989
73. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Surgery, Huntington Hospital, Huntington, New York, April 4, 1989.
74. Guest Speaker, Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York, April 13, 1989.
75. Guest Speaker, Fifth Congress, Venezuelan Association of Pediatric Surgery, Maracaibo, Venezuela, May 22-25, 1989.
76. Guest Speaker, Tenth Meeting of the National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 9-14, 1988.
77. Guest Speaker, Course on Anorectal Malformations, 7th Congress Asian Surgical Association, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, Feb. 16-25, 1989.
78. Guest Speaker, Course on Anorectal Malformations, Universita Degu Studi de Parma, Parma, Italy, March 20-25, 1989.
79. Visiting Professor and Guest Speaker, British Council Course on Neonatal and Pediatric Surgery, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, England, July 10-14, 1989
80. Visiting Professor, Kinderkrankenhaus S. Marien, Landshut, West Germany, July 14-18, 1989.
81. Guest Speaker XVI Annual Meeting of the Peruvian American Medical Society, New York, New York, Aug. 9, 1989.
82. Guest Speaker, XXII National Congress of the Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgeons, Puebla, Mexico, Sept. 13-17, 1989.
83. Guest Speaker, Colonic Motility Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct. 13, 1989.
84. Visiting Professor, Rainbow Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 15-18, 1989
85. Visiting Professor and Guest Speaker, Course on Anorectal Malformations, Ostra Sjukhuset, Goteborg, Sweden, Nov. 27-Dec. 6, 1989.