Alexandra Rueda de Leon
My name is Alexandra Rueda de León. I was born in Mexico city in 1989. Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to become a doctor, and more specifically a surgeon. When I became 18, my family and I moved to another city in the central part of the country named Queretaro, there I started medical school. But I always wanted to move back to my hometown due to the fact that hospitals there were small and without a lot of options for residency programs. In 2012, I started my internship at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, and since the beginning, I loved the program for general surgery, which I started in 2014. My area of interest in surgery is hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery. I want to start a fellowship in this area next year, and then I would like to find a place where I could practice surgery, but also allows me to focus on teaching and research activities.
