SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
Claudia Lucía
FIGUEROA PINEDA
CONTACT
Information
claufi@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3105
GENERAL
Biography
Graduated UIS undergraduate (general practitioner), postgraduate (Specialist in Internal Medicine) and Master’s (epidemiology). Teacher for 17 years, currently full professor. Linked to the Department of Internal Medicine, exercising teaching work in undergraduate, internship and graduate.
She has been an internship and postgraduate coordinator. He has been in charge of the undergraduate subjects of Cardiovascular Risk and Rehabilitation. To date in postgraduate teaches the subjects of Hospitalization Room Women (I and III year) and Research (I, II and III year).
Read more
She has served as Director of the Department in charge 2011, 2013 and 2015. She served as Director in property from 2017 to 2019. She accompanied the development of the Accreditation in high quality of the postgraduate program, was a facilitator in the updating of 8 Clinical Practice Guidelines for UISsalud; and in the academic research field has advised for the development and publication of many of the research products of the postgraduate students of Internal Medicine.
In addition, she has been an evaluator of undergraduate theses and articles from universities and national journals, respectively. His three missions for the future are: to continue maintaining in the profile of undergraduate and graduate graduates, the sense of integrality and opportunity in health care, with empathy and effectiveness; and to continue awakening and promoting the critical sense of the sources of information in the medical literature, and finally, to achieve someday the development and sustainability of transversal goals between the clinical departments and schools of the faculty, which provide quality extension to society.
EDUCATION AND
Qualifications
-
Master in Epidemiology
2011
-
Internal Medicine Specialist
-
Physician and Surgeon
Universidad Industrial de Santander
CONTACT
Information
claufi@uis.edu.co
+57 (607) 634 4000
Extension: 3105
AREAS OF
Expertise
- Specialty in Internal Medicine
- Risk factors in noncommunicable diseases
- Treatment adherence programs
OFFICE
Hours
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12 m.
E.S.E. Hospital Universitario de Santander
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Facultad de Salud, Cra 32 # 29-31
Outstanding
Works
-
Factores asociados con no control metabólico en diabéticos pertenecientes a un programa de riesgo cardiovascular
Article, Acta Medica Colombiana, vol. 43, núm. 2, 2018
-
Reguladores de integridad endotelial como posibles predictores de la gravedad en casos de dengue
Article, Biomédica Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2016
-
Systemic lupus erythematosus, gender differences in Colombian patients
Article, Clinical Rheumatology, 2018
AWARDS AND
Recognitions
-
Leadership in the Presidency
Red Colombiana de Posgrados, 2023
-
Elsevier sponsored Poster Presentation Award from the South America region
at the World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress, 2019
-
Associate Laureate Professor
Universidad Industrial de Santander