Specialty: Medicine - Pulmonary Diseases

Certification(s): Dr. Freire is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine with a subspecialty of Pulmonary Diseases.

Location(s):

Medical Degree: The University of Guayaquil School of Medicine, Ecuador. He also holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Residency: (Internal Medicine) Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, New Jersey; (Preventive Medicine) Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Fellowship: (Pulmonary Diseases) Mount Sinai Services City Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York

Academic Title: Associate Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis

Special Interest:

• Asthma
• Bronchology
• Oncology
• Pulmonary Diseases
• Sleep Disorders

Professional Memberships:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association of Bronchology
• American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow
• American College of Physicians, Fellow
• American Medical Association
• American Sleep Disorders Association
• American Thoracic Society
• Equadorian Society of Allergy
• New York Academy of Sciences
• World Association for Bronchology

Additional Information:

• Founding President, Sociedad de Infectología, Capítulo Guayas, Ecuador
• Founding Member, Sociedad de Editores Médicos, Ecuador
• Founding Member, Ecuadorian Society of Electron Microscopy, Ecuador
• Editorial Board Member Oncología and Anales de Medicina y Cirugía, Ecuador