Dr. Julio Segovia finished Medical School in his hometown of Asuncion, Paraguay and completed a six-year post graduate training in Durban, South Africa. He presently works as the head of the Foot and Ankle Unit at the Instituto de Previsión Social and specializes in lower limb trauma and arthroplasty in private practice. He is a past chairperson of AO Paraguay and is an active faculty member. Dr. Segovia is involved in IGOT’s Latin American research network, the Asociación de Cirujanos Traumatólogos de las Americas (ACTUAR) and participates in the open tibia multi-center study and clinical research symposiums.

Dr. Segovia quotes, “I’m very pleased to work under the leadership of Dr. Ted Miclau and the team. I’m enthusiastic about being a part of this international outreach group, as it is a great opportunity to network with outstanding orthopedic surgeons across Latin and North America. It’s also a fantastic space to advance medical education through significant investigation and publications.” Dr. Carlos Sánchez Valenciano is an orthopedic surgeon in Venezuela at the Hospital Universitario de Caracas. He had the opportunity to observe at the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute and San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco in 2010. As an educator, he trains and teaches junior orthopedic surgeons across Venezuela. Dr. Sanchez Valenciano is an AO Regional Faculty member and a member of the Asociación de Cirujanos Traumatólogos de las Americas (ACTUAR), an organization that seeks to build capacity in clinical investigation throughout Latin America.


Dr. Sanchez Valenciano quotes, "For me, the most important aspect of being an ACTUAR Member is the opportunity to network and collaborate with a magnificent group of orthopaedic surgeons across Latin America and the United States, and to be able to keep advancing orthopaedic medical education in Latin America through our high-impact, clinically-relevant research studies."

•    December 2019

•    March 2020

•    June 2020

•    October 2020

Publicaciones and Presentaciones:

Publicaciones:
Albright PD, MacKechnie MC, Roberts HJ, Shearer DW, Padilla L, Segovia J, Quintero JE, Amadei R, Baldy dos Reis F, Miclau T, and ACTUAR Open Tibia Study Group. Open Tibial Shaft Fractures: Treatment Patterns in Latin America. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2020. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.20.00292
Miclau T, MacKechnie MC, Shearer DW. Asociación de Cirujanos Traumatólogos de las Américas: Development of a Latin American Research Consortium. J Orthop Trauma. 2018; 32(7):S8-S11.
Chomsky-Higgins K, Miclau TA, MacKechnie MC. Barriers to Clinical Research in Latin America. Public Health Front. 2017;5(57).
Miclau TA, Chomsky-Higgins K, Ceballos A, Balmaseda, R, Morshed, S, Bhandari, M, de la Huerta, F, Miclau, T: Building Surgical Research Capacity Globally: Efficacy of a Clinical Research Course for Surgeons in Low-Resource Settings. Front Educ. 2017; Nov. DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00057.
Miclau, T, Hoogervorst, P, Shearer, DW, El Naga, AN, Working, ZM, Martin, C, Pesántez, R, Hüttl, T, Kojima, KE, Schütz, M on behalf of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Study Consortium. Current Status of Musculoskeletal Trauma Care Systems Worldwide. J Orthop Trauma. 2018; 32(7):S64-70.
Padilla Rojas LG, Quintero S, Jiménez Avila JM, López Cervantes RE, Amadei Enghelmayer R, Pesciallo C, Garabano G, Kojima K, MacKechnie MC, Quintero JE. Hip Fracture Care: Latin America. OTA Int. 2020;3(1):e064-e069. doi: 10.1097/OI9.0000000000000064
Presentaciones:
Albright P. and ACTUAR Investigators. Preferencias de Tratamiento para el Manejo de Fracturas Diafisarias Abiertas de la Tibia en América Latina. Orthopaedic Trauma Association. Nashville, TN. 2020.
Miclau T. and ACTUAR Investigators. International Research Networks: Why Should We Collaborate? Sociedad de Colombiana de Cirujanos de Ortopedia Traumatología (SCCOT), Annual Meeting, Cartagena, Colombia, April 5, 2019.
Miclau T. and ACTUAR Investigators. International Collaborations: Development of an International Orthopaedic Trauma Network (Colaboraciones Internacionales: Desarrollo de Una Red Internacional del Trauma Ortopédico). Asociacion Argentina del Trauma Ortopédico (AAOT), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 30, 2019.
Miclau T. and ACTUAR Investigators. International Collaborations: Development of an International Orthopaedic Trauma Network (Colaboraciones Internacionales: Desarrollo de Una Red Internacional del Trauma Ortopédico). Federación Mexicana de Colegios de Ortopedia y Traumatolgía (FEMECOT), Annual Meeting, Mérida, México, October 24, 2018.