A National Autonomous University Mexico (Un) the honor of the first Cardiovable surgeons for their fundamental role in the medical promotion of the country in the field Carrying of the heartRemembering the first, made in Mexico V 1988Field
The law carried out at the Enop Medicine Faculty, called “Beating 25: Let’s Talk from the Heart,” distinguished the doctor Ruben Argooro SanchezFor the leader of the first heart transplant in the country, they held 37 years ago at the National Medical Center “La Raza”.
Our honorary professor, Dr. Ruben Arguru, who was the author of the first heart transplant in Mexico, held on July 21, 1988, with emotions, which is the historical date of the country’s medicine. pic.twitter.com/32wkx5mfcr
– Faculty of Medicinaunam (@Facmedicinaunam) July 1, 2025
In the emotional speech, Arguero recalled that day of 1988, when the heart of Jose Fernando Tafoy Chavez was transplanted, recognizing that this “historical milestone” meant before and after medicine in the country.
For his part, the director of the medical faculty of the medical faculty of the Unya, Ana Carolina Sepulveda Vildeosol, emphasized “ethical obligations, constant research and interdisciplinary cooperation, such as pillars that allow us to encounter current and future problems, ensuring that the cardiovascular medicine remains an avagarian specialist in the public public service healthcare. “
The event also paid tribute to Dr. Valentin Errera Alarkun, the author of the first heart transplant at the National Cardiology Institute 25 years ago.
During the conference, the role of women in the medical sphere was evaluated, and the work of Dr. Maria del Sol Garcia Ortagon, the first woman who was transplanted throughout Latin America in 2017, was strengthened in 2017, which “noted the precedent” and broke the “paradigm in medicine”.
The speakers emphasized the importance of public health to solve the problems of society and emphasized “Heart transplants as the most noble act that has human love.”
Among the winners were the doctors of Guillermo Kareag Rhine, Jose Salvador Aburno Morales, Guillermo Diaz Quirus, Alejandro Bolio Serdan and Escar Alehandro Ortega Duran.
The seminar served to talk about the future of transplantation, which were focused on the use of stem cells and new technologies to make less invasive and more effective interventions.
With information EFE
