I am the Physiology Unit Coordinator at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, and a hemovigilance physician at the Coordination of the National Network of Blood Banks and Transfusion Services of the Colombian National Institute of Health. I am also the secretary of the bacterial subgroup of the International Society of Blood Transfusion, Transfusion-Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party. I earned an MD and PhD from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2010 and 2016, respectively. My memberships and awards include the winner in the Blood Bank category: Gestational profile of platelet donors by apheresis; 2010; a short-stay scholarship for doctoral students awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service, 2013; best work in thematic area of microbial organisms, Colombian Society of Chemical Sciences 2016: Detection and localization of the putative exchanger LbCLC-B of Leishmania; German Saldarriaga del Valle Award 2018: Advances in Transfusion Safety in Colombia; Distinguished Professor, 2018; and President of the XVII Ibero-American Congress of Blood Banks and Transfusion Medicine.