High Altitude Medicine expert and Head of the High Altitude Pulmonary & Pathology Institute (HAPPI-IPPA) (50th Anniversary, this year) in La Paz, Bolivia 3,500m. MD at UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRES La Paz, Bolivia. In charge of Pulmonary Function, bioengineering, and computer programming at HAPPI-IPPA. Former visiting professor at the UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. Visiting Professor at the BLDE UNIVERSITY in Vijayapur, India. Fellow of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute. Invited Reviewer of Acta Physiologica, Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry, BLDE Univ J. and invited reviewer of multiple other journals. Physician of diplomatic corps in Bolivia. Member of the Children at high altitude: an international consensus statement by an ad hoc committee of the International Society for Mountain Medicine. Member of the International Consensus Statement on Chronic and Subacute High Altitude Diseases. Founder of the Zubieta University, Poul-Erik Paulev High Altitude Diving Laboratory. Creator of the Science, Honor, and Truth Awards. He organized with the late Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo (Sr) the “Mountain Guru” and the American Embassy in 1994 the First World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology in La Paz, Bolivia. He also organized all the 7 Chronic Hypoxia Symposiums in La Paz. the latest 2 with the collaboration of Natalia Zubieta, M.D. spanning from 2005 to 2019.