Professor Alejandro Echeverri is an architect, urban planner, and Colombian academic. Architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Medellín, he is candidate for a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

He is co-founder and director of URBAM, a center for urban and environmental studies at EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia, and a Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow. Since 2022, he is
a member of the jury of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, founded by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in the United States.

Alejandro Echeverri's experience combines architectural, urban, environmental, and planning projects. Since 2010, he has been working with URBAM on environmental, urban, and social issues in developing countries as an international consultant and advisor to UN-Habitat and the World Bank, especially in countries with weak political and institutional structures. He is also dedicated to design through his studio, Alejandro Echeverri + Valencia Arquitectos, focusing on projects with low environmental impact for tropical regions.

He has collaborated as a professor, lecturer, and jury member with various national (Colombia) and international institutions, including the LSE Cities Master program at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the director of EDU, the urban development company of the city of Medellín, where he led the strategy of social urbanism, seeking to transform and improve the neighborhoods with the greatest problems of inequality and violence with the support and association of the mayor of the city, Sergio Fajardo,  turning Medellín into a future reference for other cities.

He received the 2016 Obayashi Prize in Japan.

Alejandro Echeverri joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Urbanism for the School of Architecture, Art and Design. 

• Loeb Fellow Graduate, School of Design, Harvard University.
• Master in Advanced Studies in Urbanism and Territorial Planning and Ph.D. Candidate in Urbanism and Territorial Planning. ETSAB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
• Urbanist Architect, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB).

• “Medellín re-escribe sus barrios" in MANITO, Félix (ed.). Ciudades creativas (vol. 5): espacio público y cultura en acción. Barcelona: Fundación Kreanta, 2013.

Professor Alejandro Echeverri is an architect, urban planner, and Colombian academic. Architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), Medellín, he is candidate for a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB) in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

He is co-founder and director of URBAM, a center for urban and environmental studies at EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia, and a Harvard GSD Loeb Fellow. Since 2022, he is
a member of the jury of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, founded by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in the United States.

Alejandro Echeverri's experience combines architectural, urban, environmental, and planning projects. Since 2010, he has been working with URBAM on environmental, urban, and social issues in developing countries as an international consultant and advisor to UN-Habitat and the World Bank, especially in countries with weak political and institutional structures. He is also dedicated to design through his studio, Alejandro Echeverri + Valencia Arquitectos, focusing on projects with low environmental impact for tropical regions.

He has collaborated as a professor, lecturer, and jury member with various national (Colombia) and international institutions, including the LSE Cities Master program at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Between 2004 and 2008, he was the director of EDU, the urban development company of the city of Medellín, where he led the strategy of social urbanism, seeking to transform and improve the neighborhoods with the greatest problems of inequality and violence with the support and association of the mayor of the city, Sergio Fajardo,  turning Medellín into a future reference for other cities.

He received the 2016 Obayashi Prize in Japan.

Alejandro Echeverri joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Urbanism for the School of Architecture, Art and Design. 

• Loeb Fellow Graduate, School of Design, Harvard University.
• Master in Advanced Studies in Urbanism and Territorial Planning and Ph.D. Candidate in Urbanism and Territorial Planning. ETSAB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
• Urbanist Architect, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB).

• “Medellín re-escribe sus barrios" in MANITO, Félix (ed.). Ciudades creativas (vol. 5): espacio público y cultura en acción. Barcelona: Fundación Kreanta, 2013.

"Anatomic pathology is a medical specialty essential to understand the physiopathological processes of disease, to correlate them with clinical medicine and to arrive at a diagnosis to be able to help with treatment."

Eraña Rojas believes herself to be a researcher that, based on relevant clinical information, medical knowledge, and macroscopic and microscopic information, is capable to diagnose the pathologies in patients. She is certain that her challenge as an anatomopathologist is to keep herself up to date to arrive at a more accurate and complete diagnosis and to be of help on the patients' search for health. As a teacher, her main challenge is for her students to enjoy the learning process so that, despite difficulties, they feel pride when they finish their studies and have the necessary enthusiasm to continue their professional training.

• Advanced Cytology
• Anatomic Pathology
• Body Systems Pathology and Pharmacology
• Medical Assistance in Advanced Cytology
• Medical Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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• Specialty in Pathological Anatomy, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Surgeon, Tecnológico de Monterrey
   

• Embracing virtuality: User acceptance of virtual settings for learning.  Computers and Electrical Engineering.  93. 2021 

• Birds of a feather flock together: Building a community of MedEd researchers.  Medical Education.  55:648. 2021 

• Analysis of anxiety on early clinical encounters: Experiences using clinical simulation in undergraduate students Análisis de la ansiedad en los primeros encuentros clínicos: experiencias utilizando la simulación clínica en estudiantes de pregrado.  Educacion Medica.  21:377-382. 2020 

• Faculty perceptions of dishonesty on medical students: Prevalence, motivations and implications Percepciones de los profesores sobre de la deshonestidad en estudiantes de Medicina: prevalencia, motivaciones e implicaciones.  Educacion Medica.  21:285-291. 2020 

• The role of the medicine student in COVID-19 pandemic. A shared responsibility El papel del estudiante de medicina ante la pandemia de COVID-19. Una responsabilidad compartida.  Cirugia y Cirujanos.  88:399-401. 2020 

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• Shortlisted to the Wharton- QS Stars REimagine Educaation Awards 2018 in the category Presence Learning award :Forensic Science Immersion Lab, conferred by Re-imagine Education QS Star, 2017
• Microsoft innovative educator expert 2017-2018, conferred by Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2017
• Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator, conferred by Microsoft Corporation, 2016
• Pathology Virtual Lab, conferred by Re-imagine Education QS Star, 2016

"Anatomic pathology is a medical specialty essential to understand the physiopathological processes of disease, to correlate them with clinical medicine and to arrive at a diagnosis to be able to help with treatment."

Eraña Rojas believes herself to be a researcher that, based on relevant clinical information, medical knowledge, and macroscopic and microscopic information, is capable to diagnose the pathologies in patients. She is certain that her challenge as an anatomopathologist is to keep herself up to date to arrive at a more accurate and complete diagnosis and to be of help on the patients' search for health. As a teacher, her main challenge is for her students to enjoy the learning process so that, despite difficulties, they feel pride when they finish their studies and have the necessary enthusiasm to continue their professional training.

• Advanced Cytology
• Anatomic Pathology
• Body Systems Pathology and Pharmacology
• Medical Assistance in Advanced Cytology
• Medical Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology

More

• Specialty in Pathological Anatomy, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Surgeon, Tecnológico de Monterrey
   

• Embracing virtuality: User acceptance of virtual settings for learning.  Computers and Electrical Engineering.  93. 2021 

• Birds of a feather flock together: Building a community of MedEd researchers.  Medical Education.  55:648. 2021 

• Analysis of anxiety on early clinical encounters: Experiences using clinical simulation in undergraduate students Análisis de la ansiedad en los primeros encuentros clínicos: experiencias utilizando la simulación clínica en estudiantes de pregrado.  Educacion Medica.  21:377-382. 2020 

• Faculty perceptions of dishonesty on medical students: Prevalence, motivations and implications Percepciones de los profesores sobre de la deshonestidad en estudiantes de Medicina: prevalencia, motivaciones e implicaciones.  Educacion Medica.  21:285-291. 2020 

• The role of the medicine student in COVID-19 pandemic. A shared responsibility El papel del estudiante de medicina ante la pandemia de COVID-19. Una responsabilidad compartida.  Cirugia y Cirujanos.  88:399-401. 2020 

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• Shortlisted to the Wharton- QS Stars REimagine Educaation Awards 2018 in the category Presence Learning award :Forensic Science Immersion Lab, conferred by Re-imagine Education QS Star, 2017
• Microsoft innovative educator expert 2017-2018, conferred by Tecnológico de Monterrey, 2017
• Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator, conferred by Microsoft Corporation, 2016
• Pathology Virtual Lab, conferred by Re-imagine Education QS Star, 2016

"Children are a vulnerable group and it is the pediatrician's duty to safeguard their health and integrity. This is why pediatrics is the medical area that fulfills and interests me the most."

Pediatrics and medical education are César Alberto Lucio Ramírez's greatest passions. Pediatrics, because children are vulnerable persons, many times voiceless, that need someone to look after their health. Medical education, because it encompasses what doctors do every day: teaching and sharing knowledge with those they educate. Taking care of patients is highly rewarding to him. Helping sick children, walking alongside healthy boys and girls while they grow up and develop, delivering babies during childbirth, are activities he gets to learn from as well as reasons to be grateful for. He is also certain that the future of a society lies in our children. 

From the time he started medical school, Lucio Ramírez was drawn toward medical education. To train students in healthcare sciences has a great impact on society, which is why producing excellent professionals with clinical skills, knowledge, and kindness is a challenge he has decided to take on. When searching for new techniques for teaching and learning, he fulfills his intellectual curiosity and his sense of innovation. He believes that the main challenge for pediatrics is to focus on the health of children in spite of distractors or other elements against it. The greatest effort you can make when it comes to medical education is, he claims, to keep a fresh attitude towards the ways the new generations learn nowadays.

• Hospital Pediatrics
• Pediatrics Clinic
• Pediatrics Hospital Clinic

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• Specialty in Pediatrics, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Surgeon, Tecnológico de Monterrey
   

• Evaluation of a multidisciplinary global health online course in Mexico 2020 

• Clinical competence assessment: development of a mobile app to enhance patient centeredness.  Development and Learning in Organisations.  34:17-20. 2020 
   

• Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group, 2020
• Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group, 2019
• Fellow in Health Professions Education, conferred by the Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Education and Research, 2019
• Postgraduate Certificate in Assessment and Accreditation, conferred by Keele University, 2019
• Chief Resident, conferred by the SSNL-ITESM Multicenter Medical Residency Program, 2012

"Children are a vulnerable group and it is the pediatrician's duty to safeguard their health and integrity. This is why pediatrics is the medical area that fulfills and interests me the most."

Pediatrics and medical education are César Alberto Lucio Ramírez's greatest passions. Pediatrics, because children are vulnerable persons, many times voiceless, that need someone to look after their health. Medical education, because it encompasses what doctors do every day: teaching and sharing knowledge with those they educate. Taking care of patients is highly rewarding to him. Helping sick children, walking alongside healthy boys and girls while they grow up and develop, delivering babies during childbirth, are activities he gets to learn from as well as reasons to be grateful for. He is also certain that the future of a society lies in our children. 

From the time he started medical school, Lucio Ramírez was drawn toward medical education. To train students in healthcare sciences has a great impact on society, which is why producing excellent professionals with clinical skills, knowledge, and kindness is a challenge he has decided to take on. When searching for new techniques for teaching and learning, he fulfills his intellectual curiosity and his sense of innovation. He believes that the main challenge for pediatrics is to focus on the health of children in spite of distractors or other elements against it. The greatest effort you can make when it comes to medical education is, he claims, to keep a fresh attitude towards the ways the new generations learn nowadays.

• Hospital Pediatrics
• Pediatrics Clinic
• Pediatrics Hospital Clinic

More

• Specialty in Pediatrics, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Surgeon, Tecnológico de Monterrey
   

• Evaluation of a multidisciplinary global health online course in Mexico 2020 

• Clinical competence assessment: development of a mobile app to enhance patient centeredness.  Development and Learning in Organisations.  34:17-20. 2020 
   

• Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group, 2020
• Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group, 2019
• Fellow in Health Professions Education, conferred by the Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Education and Research, 2019
• Postgraduate Certificate in Assessment and Accreditation, conferred by Keele University, 2019
• Chief Resident, conferred by the SSNL-ITESM Multicenter Medical Residency Program, 2012