José Elías García Ortiz
Centro Medico Nacional Occidente, Mexico
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Senior researcher and laboratory chief at Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente, Guadalajara, MX and member of the Expert Board on Lysosomal Disorders – Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Past president of the Asociacion Mexicana de Genetica Humana (AMGH) and current president of the Red Latinoamericana de Genética Humana (RELAGH). Education/trainings: University of Coahuila, School of Medicine, MX, 1995. University of Guadalajara, MX: Master in Human Genetics, 2001; and Ph.D. in Human Genetics, 2003. Postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Genetics, NIA-NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2002-2005.