About Us

YEARBOOK
2019-2020

Fighting Infectious Diseases in Emerging Countries


FIDEC is a nonprofit organization started in the United States in 2001 by Doctor Daniel Stamboulian. It is made up of physicians, scientists, and other healthcare workers from Latin America, the United States, and Armenia.

Our Mission


To contribute towards improving the health of the population in emerging countries through the proper prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

General Goals


  • Promoting excellence in prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
  • Raising awareness in the community about the most relevant features of infectious diseases.
  • Encouraging and supporting basic and applied research to better understand the causes, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases.
  • Collaborating with public and private organizations to develop prevention programs.
  • Transmitting our expertise and know-how in infectious disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatment.

Our Team


FIDEC professionals form working groups focused on specific branches of infectious diseases, such as infant, teenage, and adult vaccination (against the flu or influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, hepatitis, shingles and herpes zoster, human papilloma virus or HPV, and polio, among others); nutrition, hygiene and food safety; bone and joint infections; and travel medicine. Every group's efforts rest on four founding pillars:

  • education for healthcare professionals,
  • education for the community,
  • research,
  • healthcare programs.

FIDEC in Emerging Countries


Argentina and Uruguay

FIDEC was born as a natural outgrowth of Fundación Centro de Estudios Infectológicos (FUNCEI). This organization was created in 1987 by Doctor Daniel Stamboulian and is headquartered in the City of Buenos Aires. Today, FIDEC not only extends the work started by FUNCEI to other countries with specific needs in the field of infectious diseases, but also actively supports the actions of FUNCEI in Argentina.

In recognition of the brilliant career of the founder and chair of these organizations, Fundación Stamboulian was established in Buenos Aires and has been another pillar of these fruitful endeavors.

In Uruguay, FIDEC is also represented by FUNCEI, which is registered as a legal entity in the Bureau of Legal Entities by decree of the Education and Culture Ministry of that country.

Armenia

Since its inception, FIDEC runs healthcare and educational programs in Armenia. As this work had been growing and expanding into several regions of the country, in 2008, FIDEC decided to establish a local branch —FIDEC Armenia— with its own working groups and an office in downtown Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

Board of Directors

Dr. Daniel Stamboulian
Founder & President

Dr. Roberto Arduino
University of Texas, Houston, USA

Dra. Bruscha Dickinson
CorePlus, LLC, Miami, Florida, USA

Dra. Alejandra Gurtman
Former Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Clinical Research Wyeth Vaccines, USA


Dr. Steve Kohl
Oregon Health Sciences University, USA

Dr. Federico Laham
Infectious Disease Specialist, Orlando, Florida, USA

Executive Director

Roxana Stamboulian

Program Director and Manager

Valeria Rotholc

Vaccination Program Director in the United States

Dr. Luján Soler

Vaccination Program Coordinator in the United States

Dr. Laura Regalini

Event Development & Organization Committee

Marie Sossie B. de Stamboulian
Caroline Schmidt
María Paz Victoria
Vanesa Carusso

Vaccination External Consultant

Dr. Gordon Dickinson
Professor of Medicine , University of Miami, USA


Editorial Team

Soledad Llarrull
Editor

Ediciones Científico - técnicas
Web Design and Implementation

FIDEC Miami

2050 Coral Way Suite 407. Miami, Florida 33145.

Phone: +1 305 854 0075. Fax.: +1 305 865 7847.

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