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Curriculum Vitae
Wilson Bautista was born on the 19th of September 1980 in Duitama, Colombia. He studied Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and obtained his medical degree in December 2003. He obtained his degree in Internal Medicine at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in the Hospital Militar Central in Bogotá, Colombia in April 2010. Later, he started his training in Rheumatology at the Department of Rheumatology in the same University. During the second year of Rheumatology training he was awarded a fellowship by the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society. He moved to The Netherlands in 2011 and worked as a research fellow at the Rheumatology Department of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in Leiden. This rotation at the LUMC was instrumental for him to choose an academic career and perform clinical research. As a result of the research fellowship this thesis was started and performed at the LUMC. The thesis focused on many aspects related to spondyloarthritis in Colombia. He obtained his MSc in Rheumatology in Colombia in 2012. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology at the School of Medicine in the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada and also is working as consultant rheumatologist in the Arthritis Clinic at Organización Sanitas Internacional in Bogotá, Colombia.
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