Chemist and Biologist, Master of Science with Doctorate studies, with training in pharmacology of natural products and medicinal plants; ethnobotany. Creator, founder, and editor for 23 years of the Latin American and Caribbean Bulletin of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (BLACPMA), creator of the Latin American Congress of Medicinal Plants (COLAPLAMED), which is in its thirteenth version, founder of the Latin American Society of Medicinal Plants (SOLAPLAMED). Creator and editor of Medicinal Plant Communications. Member of the Editorial Committee of the Revista Cubana de Plantas Medicinales, Pharmaceutics, Pakistan Veterinary Journal, Revista de la Asociación Colombiana de Ciencias Biológicas, Longhua Chinese Medicine, Iteckne (Colombia). He has co-authored more than 60 articles in national and international journals, as well as having given more than 120 presentations at national and international scientific conferences. He is the co-editor of nine books on medicinal plants and the author of numerous chapters. In 2022, he received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa in Peru for his contributions to the dissemination and development of Latin American medicinal plants. He also received a tribute in Mexico.
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