About Puerta de Hierro Medical Center

Puerta de Hierro Medical Center is a private organization, specialized in the provision of high-quality health services. Our center opened its doors in May 2004 in Guadalajara with its Outpatient Surgery Center. The Specialties Hospital inaugurated in March 2006, and its newest building is the final part of a project that seeks to offer the most exclusive health-service options in the region.

Puerta de Hierro Medical Center is unique in the country; it brings together 300 of Mexico’s leading specialists, plus world-class technology to offer diagnosis, treatment, and hospitalization services, all in one place.

We are a high specialty medical center with the same quality standards as any other U.S. hospital with the best human and medical attention.

Puerta de Hierro Medical Center is located in the western central part of Mexico, in Guadalajara, the second largest city of Mexico. The city has many tourist attractions as well as many other nearby leisure points.

Puerta de Hierro Medical Center Staff

Dr. Jose Carlos Cortes Sandoval

RESUME:
June 2006 – Present Shoulder and Elbow Surgery committee manager of the Joint, Mexican Association of Arthroscopy and Reconstructive Surgery. www.amecra.org.mx
Aug 2006 – Present Orthopedist surgeon, Medicine of the Sport office at the Pan- American University. www.up.mx
June 2005 – Present Orthopedist surgeon, Medicine of the Sport clinic of the Medical Center Puerta de Hierro (CMPH in Spanish).
June 2004 – Present High Specialty Orthopedic Founder Partner of the Puerta de Hierro Medical Center (Ortomedica). Ortomedica is a professional and private medical enterprise, which groups professionals of different subspecialties in the orthopedic area located in Zapopan, Jalisco offering medical services in surgery with minimal invasion, joint prosthesis, arthroscopic surgery and medicine of the sport.
www.ortomedica.com
Jan 2004 – Present “Medical Instructor, a Surgical Worshop” course (course studies and surgical skills, cadaveric training). Mexican Association of Joints’ Reconstructive Surgery and Arthroscopy.
March 2003 – Present Training course chairman (Academic Manager) of the Shoulder Joint Reconstructive Surgery. This course is made thanks to the cooperation agreement between the Guadalajara Autonomous University www.uag.com and the Mexican Social Security Institute in the Medical School and the 46th Medical Center.
Nov 1999 – Present Chief of the Shoulder’s Clinic, 46th Medical Center at the Mexican Social Security Institute in Guadalajara, Jalisco. www.imss.org.mx

EDUCATION & TRAINING
Nov 2004 – Nov 2004 Classroom, operating room and surgical skills, cadaveric training on Advanced Surgical Treatment of Shoulder Disorders. The Kerlan Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles, California. Medical Course Instructor: Ronald A. Navarro M.D.
March 1999 – March 1999 Surgical Worshop (operating room, surgical skills cadaveric training) and Course of Advanced Techniques Studies in Arthroscopy and Open Shoulder. The Massachusetts General Hospital. Medical Course Instructor: John Richmond M.D.
Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 Surgical Worshop (operating room, surgical skills cadaveric training) and Course of Advanced Techniques Studies in Arthroscopy and Open Shoulder. Medical School in the University of Miami, Miami, FL. Medical Course Instructor: Zuckerman M.D.
March 1995 – March 1997 Medical Science orientated to Medicine of the Sport Mastery. At the Guadalajara University with the Grade Thesis: “Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Efficiency on the Shoulder’s Pinch Syndrome”. www.udg.mx
Jan 1995 – Dec 1995 English Course. The Berlitz Language Center in Guadalajara, Mexico. Feb 1995 – Feb 1995 Attendance to the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in Orlando, FL.
April 1992 – June 1992 Arthroscopic Fellowship. Traumatology, Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Monographic Hospital in Madrid, Spain.
Feb 1986 – March 1989 Orthopedic Surgery Residency. Western Medical Center of the Mexican Social Security Institute in Guadalajara, Mexico.
June 1983 – June 1984 Surgical Intern. Social Security’s housing of Costa Rica. San José de Costa Rica in Central America.
June 1979 – June 1983 Medical School at the Guadalajara Autonomous

LICENSURE & ACCREDITATIONS

Oct 2005 Arthroscopic International Society, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Medicine of the Sport. www.isakos.com
Nov 2003 Re-certification of the Mexican Orthopedic & Traumatology Counsel. www.cmot.mx
Feb 1998 Mexican Health secretariat.
March 1990 Mexican Orthopedic & Traumatology Counsel.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Nov 2003 – Present Mexican Orthopedic Society. www.smo.org.mx
Jun 2003 – Present LatinAmerican Arthroscopic, Knee and Sports Society. www.slard.com
June 2001 – Present Reconstructive Joint Surgery and Mexican Arthroscopic Association.
www.amecra.org.mx
April 1996 – Present Mexican Experimental Surgical Association.
May 1994 – Present Orthopedic and Traumatology in Sports’ Committee

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

Jan 2002 Post-grade thesis tutor to obtain the degree in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopaedia: “Arthroscopic findings of the capsuled ligamentary complex in the shoulder’s glenohumeral traumatic dislocation”.
Jan 1998 Post-grade thesis tutor to obtain the degree in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopaedia: “Histomorphologic Study of the shoulder’s suprathorny tendon”.
Jan 1996 Post-grade thesis tutor to obtain the degree in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopedic: Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Efficiency in the muscular imbalance of patients with the Shoulder’s Pinch Syndrome.
1995 Post-grade thesis tutor to obtain the degree in the specialty of Traumatology and Orthopaedia: 2% Xylocaine Infiltration Efficiency and Metilprednisolone Acetate in the Subacromial space in patients with the Shoulder’s Pinch Syndrome.

HONORS & AWARDS

July 2004 Award to my path inside the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Specialty by the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Michoacan’s Society.
Dec 2002 Award as Distinguish Professor of the Continuing Education in the Guadalajara Autonomous University.
Feb 2001 Test teacher for the Orthopedic Surgeons Certificate in the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Mexican Board.
Jan 2000 Test teacher for the Orthopedic Surgeons Certificate in the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Mexican Board.

Feb 1999 Test teacher for the Orthopedic Surgeons Certificate in the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Mexican Board.
Feb 1998 Test teacher for the Orthopedic Surgeons Certificate in the Orthopedic and Traumatologic Mexican Board.
May 1996 Poster Presentation finalist award. Mexican Orthopedic Society, Fiftieth anniversary Congress, Mexico City.
Sept 1996 Poster Presentation finalist award. First International Congress of Medicine of the Sport, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Oct 1996 Institutional Merit Honor. Mexican Social Security Institute.
Feb 1996 Award for performance as MD in the XIII Guadalajara’s International Marathon. Sports Promotion and Youth Support County Board.
Oct 1994 Institutional Merit Honor. Mexican Social Security Institute.
May 1994 Award to my teaching performance. Medical Education District Office Coordination of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
Aug 1983 Graduated in 10% Class Rank. Medical School of the Guadalajara Autonomous University.

PUBLICATIONS
BOOK: “Service Training Course: Shoulder’s Reconstruction”. 2001. National Institute’s Author Rights Register no. Author’s Right Public Register. 03.2001-100816413900-01
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
May 2006 “Ultrasound in the doctor’s clinic by the orthopedist to evaluate and decide how to handle the shoulder’s handle rotator rupture”. AMECRA
Eleventh Congress. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
May 2006 “Shoulder’s Microunstability: Theory or Reality”. AMECRA Eleventh Congress. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Nov 2005 “Shoulder’s Glenohumeral Unstability Image”. XVIII National Congress of the Mexican Orthopedic and Traumatologic Association.
Mazatlan, Mexico.
Aug 2005 “Metilen Blue Test Usefulness in the shoulder’s handle rotator rupture”. VIII Shoulder and Elbow Pathology International Course. Merida, Mexico.
June 2005 “46th Medical Center at the Mexican Social Security Institute Experience in the shoulder’s albrum injuries”. 10th AMECRA

International Congress. Cancun, México. Oct 2004 “46th Medical Center at the Mexican Social Security Institute Experience in the shoulder’s handle rotator total thickness rupture”.
II National Surgical Journey of Arthroscopic Surgery and Articular Replacement. Morelia, Mexico.
June 2004 “Shoulder’s Glenohumeral Unstability treated with fastak type anchors. Followed for 5 years”. IX AMECRA International Congress. Acapulco, Mexico.
April 2004 “Shoulder’s Prosthesis Post-surgery Unstability” Presented in the monthly meeting of the Mexican Orthopedic Society. Mexico City.
Jan 2004 “Shoulder’s Chronic Pain” Presented in the monthly meeting of the Palliative Care Unit and Pain Clinic of Guadalajara Civil Hospital.
June 2003 “Prevalence of injuries of the shoulder’s handle rotator in asymptomatic adult people, echosonographic diagnose”. VIII AMECRA International Congress. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
June 2002 “Bankart Injury, Non-traumatic glenohumeral dislocation of the shoulder incidence”. VII AMECRA International Congress. Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
May 2002 “Reconstruction of the suspender mechanism of the shoulder’s scapula with semitendinose tendon”. XXVI National Orthopedic Congress in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Mexican Orthopedic Society. Mexico City.
June 2002 “Physiopathologic Bases of the Shoulder’s Glenohumeral Unstability”. International Arthroscopic Surgery and Shoulder’s Articular replacement Course. Guadalajara, Mexico.
May 2002 “Orthopedic long-distance Education”: Guadalajara Autonomou University. XXVI National Orthopedic Congress in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Mexican Orthopedic Society. Mexico City.
May 2002 “Anatomic Consideration of the Humerus’ Extreme Proximity in Unstable Shoulder”. XXVI National Orthopedic Congress in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Mexican Orthopedic Society. Mexico City.
Nov 2001 “Shoulder’s Glenohumeral Unstability: Problem not solved”. First Orthopedic Surgery Progress Course. ABC Hospital. Mexico City.
March 2000 “Osteoporosis in the humerus proximal third fractures”. Orthopedic and Elder Course. Aguascalientes’ Orthopedic and Traumatologic Society, A.C. Aguascalientes, Mexico. May 2000 “Impaction Test Usefulness in the Shoulder’s Pinch Syndrome”. XXV National Orthopedic Congress. Mexico City.

Jan 1999 “Provocation tests usefulness in the exploration of the shoulder’s suprathorny tendon ruptures”. First Painful Shoulder Course; diagnosis and treatment. Orthopedic and Traumatologic Society, A.C. Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Jan 1999 “Labrum Prosthesis in the shoulder’s glenohumeral unstability. A prototype”. Shoulder Surgery Course. ABC Hospital. Mexico City.
Nov 1998 “Shoulder’s Glenohumeral Stabilization Traditional Techniques”. National Orthopedic and Traumatologic meeting. Orthopedic and Traumatologic Society, A.C. Mazatlan, Mexico.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
+ To develop tissue grafts for shoulder’s suprathorny tendon ruptures of massive total thickness, impossible to stitch with arthroscopic technique.
+ To develop a shoulder’s prosthesis for patients with shoulder extreme proximal fracture.

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About Guadalajara, Mexico

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Guadalajara is the capital city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of the state and in the western-Pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,600,940 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality. The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area includes other adjacent municipalities and has a population of 4,112,332 although it is estimated that the next count will show nearly 6 million inhabitants, making it the second most populous by far in the metropolitan area in Mexico, behind Mexico City, and the 23rd largest metropolitan area of the Americas. The municipality is the most densely populated in Mexico after the Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in the State of Mexico.

With an expectation for high growth within the next five years, tourism is now one of the most important sectors in the Guadalajaran economy. It is an important tourist destination center in itself and serves as an axis of an array of nearby tourist destinations (Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Mazatlan).

Guadalajara is well connected by modern highways to Mexico City, to the Northwest and to the major beach resorts of Manzanillo, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. Guadalajara's airport is the third most active of the country (after Mexico City and Cancún) with direct flights to many Mexican and American cities. It also has a lively and distinctive network of car-free streets.

Guadalajara is also one of the world's favorite places for Americans and Canadians to retire due to its calm and secure environments, most living in the Chapala lake's surroundings

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