Infectious Diseases

Biography

Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is an expert in tropical and emerging diseases, particularly in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases (especially arboviral diseases), now including COVID-19 and Monkeypox also. He is President of the Publications and Research Committee of the Pan-American Infectious Diseases Association (API), as well as President of the Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN). He is member of the Committee on Tropical Medicine, Zoonoses, and Travel Medicine of ACIN. He is Vicepresident of the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI) and Member of the Council of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID). Since 2014, he has been recognized as Senior Researcher, Ministry of Science of Colombia. He is Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. He is also Professor of the Master in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru. Non-Resident Adjunct Faculty, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. He is External Professor, Master in Research on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Invited Professor, Master in Biomedicine, Universidad Internacional SEK, Quito, Ecuador. Visiting Professor, Master Program of Epidemiology, Diponegoro University, Indonesia. He has been awarded in 2021 with the “Raul Isturiz Award” Medal of the API. Also, in 2021, awarded with the “Jose Felix Patiño” Asclepius Staff Medal of the Colombian Medical College, due to his scientific contributions on COVID-19 during the pandemic. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the journal Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases. His Scopus H index is 55 (Google Scholar H index, 77) with 725 publications indexed in Scopus.