Fisiología respiratoria; Daño inducido por la ventilación mecánica; Sindrome de distress respiratorio del adulto, Interdisciplina.

Continuous participation in undergraduate (Medicine students) and postgraduate teaching activities through clinical mentoring, academic supervision, and direct instruction of medical students and physicians in specialty and subspecialty training programs across different medical disciplines, including Internal Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, Geriatrics, Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine, among others

Undergraduate medical teaching in Pathophysiology and Integrated Internal Medicine. (120 students/year)

Tutor and supervisor of teaching assistants and research students involved in medical image analysis using artificial intelligence tools

Teaching for Biomedical Engineering PhD and Medical Sciences PhD students

Teaching teaching at Course of Death and bad news communication, School of Medicine PUC (30-40 students per year)

Member of the Teaching Committee of the Intensive Care Medicine Residency Program (>30 residents/year)

Under degree

Niki Hamidi-Vadeghani Majd, Engineering student, IPre 2018. Cotutor with Prof. Daniel Hurtado, BME.

Catalina Miranda Hernández, IPre 2018. Cotutor with Prof. Carlos Milovic F. (Electric Engineering)

Benjamin Lozano. Biochemestry Undergraduate thesis (co-tutor). 2022

Postgraduate

José Antonio Escalona. MSc Health Research PUC Thesis 2023 (Tutor)

Andrés Aquevedo. MSc Epidemiology PUC Thesis 2023 (Co-tutor)

Paula Ford. MSc Health Research PUC Thesis 2023 (Tutor)

Carolina Smith, MSc Health Research PUC Thesis 2024 (Tutor)

PhD tutor

Maria Consuelo Bachmann, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2018

David Carpio, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2018

Martín Benites, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2022

Agustín Pérez, Engineering PhD Program, PUC, 2022 (Co-tutor)

Cesar Santis, IIBM PhD Program, PUC, 2024 (Co-tutor)

Eduardo Avila, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2023

Paula Ford, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2026

THESIS COMITEE EVALUATION

Joaquin Araos, PhD thesis defense, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2018

Felipe Damiani, PhD thesis, Medical Sciences PhD Program, PUC, 2018

Roque Basoalto, Master thesis defense, Physiology master program, U de Chile 2018

Roberto Brito, PhD thesis, Medical Sciences PhD Program, U de Chile, 2017

Javier Vela, MSc Health Research PUC Thesis 2022

Valeria Labra, PhD thesis Biomedical Engineering PhD Program, PUC, 2023

José Barahona, PhD thesis Engineering Sciences PhD Program, PUC 2025

Javier Varela, PhD thesis, Medical Sciences PhD Program, U de Chile, 2025

Nicolás Araya, PhD thesis Engineering Sciences PhD Program, PUC 2025

RESEARCH AND ACCREDITATION REVIEW ACTIVITIES

2024 – present. Peer reviewer for ANID: FONDECYT regular, postdoctorado e inicio projects.

2025 Peer reviewer for Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (CNA) for PhD and Master programs

2025 - present Member of Health Sciences Commitee from Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (CNA) for PhD and Master programs

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

2023- present Director of Ventilatory Therapy Diploma UC (100 students per year)

2012 - present. Teaching at Ventilatory Therapy Diploma UC(100 students per year)

2012 - present. Teaching at Intensive Care Medicine Diploma UC (>100 students per year)

2024 -present Teaching at "Fundaments of Intensive Care Medicine" Diploma UC (>100 students per year) “End-of-Life Care in the ICU”

2025 - present. Teaching at "Salud Digital" Diploma UC, “Innovation in the ICU,”

2025 -present Teaching at Diploma in Veterinary Anesthesia and Critical Care UC

2025 - present Teaching at "Medicina Veterinaria" Diploma UC

Dissemination activities (oral presentations)

August 18, 2025 – Lecture at Scientific Society of Kinesiology Students, OCEK Kinesiology Program, Universidad de los Andes.
August 7, 2025 – “PEEP and Extrapulmonary Effects” and “Prolonged Prone Positioning,” Intensive Care Conference, Universidad de La Frontera.
July 30, 2025 – “Respiratory Failure,” Medical Student Chilean Congress.
June 12, 2025 – “Brain–Ventilator Interaction,” Neurocritical Care Course, Universidad de los Andes.
June 2025 – “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS),” Interuniversity Course of Critical Care Medicine (PUC and U de Chile).
May 28, 2025 – “ARDS: Pathophysiology and Current Advances,” Chilean Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
May 27, 2025 – “End-of-Life Care in the ICU,” Intensive Care Diploma Program
May 19, 2025 – “Mechanical Ventilation: Biomechanical and Clinical Aspects,” Biomechanics Course, Engineering School PUC
May 17, 2025 – “Artificial Intelligence and Research Opportunities in Undergraduate Medical Education,” AI Meeting: Getting on Board the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Train.
May 9, 2025 – “The Contribution of Bioengineering to Mechanical Ventilation Research,” 10th Anniversary Symposium of LIVEN: The Contribution of Latin American Research to Intensive Care Medicine: Breaking Boundaries.
April 22 & 24, 2025 – “Respiratory System,” Human Physiology for the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IIBM), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
2024 – Seminar: “Research in Critical Care Units of INT: How to Navigate Challenging Waters Without Drowning in the Attempt?” P-SILI.
2024 – Interprofessional Course: Essential NeuroSOCHIMI Support (SENS). Airway management and invasive ventilatory support.
2024 – V Intensive Care Medicine Conference, Hospital Biprovincial Quillota–Petorca. Stress and Strain: Past mechanics or still central in lung inflammation?
2024 – SMS 2024 Pre-Congress Course (Virtual). NIV in Heart Failure: Physiological bases, initial programming, clinical evaluation, and ventilator parameters.
2023 – Intensive Care Medicine Update SOCHIMI, Chillán. "Pre-intubation support therapies (HFNC, NIV, Helmet)". and "When to intubate in acute respiratory failure: Does P-SILI exist?"
2023 – 41st Chilean Congress of Intensive Care Medicine SOCHIMI. Ventilatory management in acute neurological injury.
2023 – VI International Symposium on Mechanical Ventilation and Hemodynamic Monitoring, Lima, Peru. P-SILI: mechanisms of injury in the pre-intubation phase. Strain as a mechanism of ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).
2022 – Intensive Care Medicine Update SOCHIMI, Osorno. When to supinate: by time, mechanics, or PaO?/FiO? ratio? and "Electrical impedance tomography in ARDS."
2022 – XL Brazilian Congress of Pulmonology, Campinas, Brazil. Bedside monitoring of mechanical ventilation: which parameter is best? and "Personalized mechanical ventilation."
2021 – XIV Uruguayan Congress of Intensive Care Medicine. Prone ventilation in COVID-19.
2021 – XXVI Brazilian Congress of Intensive Medicine, Brazil (Virtual). ECMO for COVID-19 patients: current evidence.

Other activities

Director of the Research Methodology Course at Hospital Sótero del Río (2024; 50 students)
Co-Director of the Design in Critical Care Course (2024), including the workshop Design for Healthcare in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in collaboration with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Design (Prof. Denisse Montt)
Director of the Mechanical Ventilation Course and Workshop at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2024; 80 students)
Director of the workshop Innovation in Intensive Care: Challenges and Opportunities (November 2025; 60 participantes)
Coordinator of the roundtable discussion Challenges in the Integration of Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit (June 2025, 50 participants)
Director of the 1st Innovation Competition – Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (January 2026)
Contributor to the blog Perspectivas en Medicina Intensiva y Terapia Ventilatoria
Social Media Manager for the Instagram account of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (>1,000 followers)
Developer of educational videos for healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
Faculty member and instructor in national and international workshops for healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Faculty member in continuing medical education seminars organized by the Chilean Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SOCHIMI) across regional hospitals in Chile (with an annual participation aprox.)
Coordinator of the seminar The Trajectory of Older Adult Patients in Intensive Care Units, featuring guest speaker Daniel Forte (April 2025, 50 participants)
Seminars with residents and students from Hospital Barros Luco (annually)