Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. Specialty in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Nutrition at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition. Research stay at the Hôpital Bicetre in Paris and studies in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Paris-Sud 1986-1988. Stay as visiting researcher at the Population Council in New York 1988. Coordinator of the Obesity and Eating Disorders Clinic of the INNSZ and Professor of the Specialty in Obesity (UNAM) 2006-2019.
He has been in private endocrinology practice since 1989. He has published 48 articles in peer-reviewed journals, written 46 book chapters on endocrinology, internal medicine, or psychiatry, and edited two books on obesity. Member and Past-President of the Mexican Society of Nutrition and Endocrinology, The Obesity Society and The Endocrine Society.