The Mexican Biomedical Engineering Society SOMIB

Solorzano J, Cadena M, Infante O, Prieto F, Suaste E and Martinez A Present and former presidents of SOMIB, www.sotnib.org.mx 

The practice of medicine and surgery by pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico has been extensively documented.  

An interesting pictorial history of cardiology, that is also a beautiful reference to the history of biomedical engineering, can be admired in a mural at the National Institute of Cardiology, painted by Diego Rivera in 1947. Many of the historical milestones there depicted took place in Mexico or in Latin America.  

Rosenblueth would be a co-founder, in 1961, of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) of the National Polytechnical Institute (IPN). A few years later, 1971, Joaquin Remolina founded CINVESTAV, the rather unlikely Bio-Electronics Section, within the Department of Pharmacology. A physician turned designer and builder of electronic devices, Joaquin was the father of a prolific biomedical engineering tradition that has disseminated and thrived in multiple institutions and enterprises.  

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has also been the cradle of achievements in biomedical engineering. It would take too long to make a list of the well known and dearly remembered scientists and technologists who have labored and taught in the laboratories, workshops, and classrooms of UNAM.  

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