February 7-9, 2025 | Fontainebleau Miami Beach |
Victor Jimenez-Zepeda, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Member of the Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Research Institute and the Arthur Child Comprehensive Cancer Center. He serves a Co-director of the Amyloidosis Program of Calgary and member of the executive committee for the Canadian Amyloidosis Society (CAS). He built up a unic MGUS, MGCS and amyloid screening clinic at the University of Calgary. Dr Jimenez Zepeda trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology at UNAM in Mexico city and then moved to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ for a postdoctoral reserach fellowship in Myeloma and genetics under the mentorship of Dr Rafael Fonseca (2007-2009). Further, he went to Toronto were he pursued a clinical and research fellowship from 2009-2012 and later acted as a junior staff member of the Princess Margaret Cancer Center (University of Toronto, UHN) fom 2012-2013. Since 2013 he has been a faculty member at the University of Calgary in AB, Canada. Dr Zepeda is member of the American Society of Hematology, International Society of Amyloidosis, International Kidney and Monoclonal gammopathies group, Myeloma Canada Research Network, International Myeloma Society and is one of the founders of the Canadian Society of Amyloidosis (CAS). Dr Zepeda has ~300 journal publications and abstracts to his credit with more than 110 peer review articles in pubmed. He has been awarded with the ASH Abstract Achievement Award and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Award.