Jorge  Lazareff, M.D.

Professor, Surgery
Department: School of Medicine
18-210 CHS
CAMPUS - 703919
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752
Tel: (310) 206-6677
jlazareff@mednet.ucla.edu
Website
Keywords: Latin America

Professor and Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Program. Dr. Jorge Lazareff's primary focus is the treatment of children with neurosurgical disorders. 

Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery.

Department of Neurosurgery.

David Geffen School of Medicine.

Medical Degree from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Neurosurgery Residency

at Hospital de Niños de Buenos Aires. Fellowships Neurosurgery at Cape Town

University (South Africa). Fellowship in the metabolism of brain tumors at the University

of Alberta Edmonton (Canada). Director of Surgical Research and Head of Department

of Neurosurgery at Hospital Infantil de México (D.F.).In 1993 joined the faculty at UCLA

Department of Neurosurgery. In 1996 appointed Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery

program at UCLA until 2013. In 2013 Director of the Latin American Initiative at UCLA

Center for World Health until 2020.

In 2014, I developed a program to foster clinical research by introducing to medical

students and graduates the fundamentals of Critical Thinking applied to interpreting

clinical evidence. The program runs in Medical Schools in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and

El Salvador, and is currently active in Peru and Nicaragua. The course consisted of

seven lectures delivered in Spanish via the Internet. In 2019 received an Honorary

Degree in Medicine from UNAN-Managua. In 2022 appointed Docente Extraordinario by

the Universidad Científica del Sur (Lima, Peru).

In summary, my interest is the development of analytical capabilities of medical students

and physicians in Latin America.