David Velázquez Fernández is a Mexican surgeon and researcher attached to the Endocrine Surgery and Advanced Laparoscopy at the Department of Surgery of the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition and with the Clinic of Nutrition, Obesity and Metabolic Disorders at the ABC Medical Center.
He studied medicine at the Universidad Veracruzana, and received his doctorate from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
[1] He did his medical residency at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Health Sciences and Nutrition.,[2] with an average grade of 98.5/100 graduating cum laude.
[3] In 2006 he received a PhD in medical sciences from UNAM-INCMNSZ, graduating cum laude[1] It 2004 he went to Stockholm, Sweden in order to do a fellowship in endocrine surgery and molecular medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, located just north of Stockholm.
He received his master's in 2005 in surgical sciences at the Center for Molecular Medicine at the Karolinska University Hospital.
He teaches at the ITESM Campus Ciudad de México, at the masters and PhD program in medical sciences, dental and health of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Master of Clinical Research program), at the ABC Medical Center and as associate professor of High Specialty Course Endocrine Surgery of the UNAM at INCMNSZ.
[2] He has been described by his students, at the ITESM, as one of the most notorious and inspirational professors from the health sciences department, even though he sometimes intimidates them because of his wide knowledge.