Director General: Emmanuel Ricardo Jarquin Romero
Doctor en Medicina y Especialista en SSO
Investigador Colaborador de la Escuela de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Boston en diferentes estudios de Nefropatía MesoAmericana.
González-Quiroz M, Aceituno A, Anand Sh, van Geen A, Engel LS, Jarquin E, Ruepert C, Villegas-González N, Arias-Hidalgo M, Franceschini N, Anchía-Pastrán D, Solano-Diaz K, Corrales-Vargas A, Crowe J, Cubilla-Batista I, Acosta H, Mike A, Guzmán-Quilo C, Aragón A, López-Bonilla I, Rohloff P, Scammell MK, Garcia-Trabanino R, Amador Velázquez J, Brooks DR, Mohan S, Radhakrishnan J, Gummidi B, Jha V, Collado W, Bhalla V, Friedman DJ, Waikar SS, Kesler K, Trochinski L, Lee Ferguson P, Parsons PJ, Hsu-Kim H, Huset C, Summer Jenkins S, Mendley SR, Lebov JF, Joubert BR, Navas-Acien A. Environmental exposure assessment in the international prospective study of Chronic Kidney Disease of UnceRtain Etiology (CKDu) in Agricultural Communities (CURE) research consortium: Design and protocol development. Science of The Total Environment, 2025,983, 179642, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179642.
Keogh SA, Leibler JH, Sennett Decker CM, Amador Velázquez JJ, Jarquin ER, Lopez-Pilarte D, Garcia-Trabanino R, Delgado IS, Petropoulos ZE, Friedman DJ, Amador Sánchez MR, Guevara R, McClean MD, Brooks DR, Scammell MK. High prevalence of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology among workers in the Mesoamerican Nephropathy Occupational Study. BMC Nephrol. 2022;23(1):238. doi: 10.1186/s12882-022-02861-0. PMID: 35794550
Leibler JH, Keogh SA, Jarquín E, Garcia-Trabanino, R, Amador Velázquez JJ, Lopez Pilarte D, Beltran M, Delgado IS, Petropoulos ZE, Friedman DJ, Brooks DR, Scammell MK. COVID-19 and CKD: Employment, Food Security and Healthcare in El Salvador. Ann Glob Health. 2022;88(1):101. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3820 PMID: 36415326
Petropoulos ZE, Keogh SA, Jarquín E, López-Pilarte D, Amador Velázquez JJ, García-Trabanino R, Amador Sánchez MR, Guevara R, Gruener A, Allen DR, Leibler JH, Delgado IS, McClean MD, Friedman DJ, Brooks DR, Scammell MK. Heat stress and heat strain among outdoor workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2023 Jul;33(4):622-630. doi: 10.1038/s41370-023-00537-x. PMID: 37041408
Barrera , W., Jarquín, E. ., & Méndez, S. (2024). Pesticide imports in El Salvador between 2013 and 2021. Agronomía Mesoamericana, 36, 60031. https://doi.org/10.15517/am.2024.60031
García-Trabanino R, Jarquín-Romero ER. Nephrology and occupational safety and health: the obliged pairing of climate change [Spanish] Nefrología y seguridad y salud ocupacional: el maridaje obligado del cambio climático. Nefro Latinoam. 2023;20:1-3. doi: 10.24875/NEFRO.M23000015
García-Trabanino R, Jarquín E, Wesseling C, Johnson RJ, González-Quiroz M, Weiss I, Glaser J, Vindell JJ, Stockfelt L, Roncal C, Harra T, Barregard L. Heat stress, dehydration, and kidney function in sugarcane cutters in El Salvador – a cross-shift study of workers at risk of Mesoamerican nephropathy. Res. 2015 Oct;142:746-55. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.07.007. Epub 2015 Jul 23. PMID: 26209462.
Roncal-Jimenez C, García-Trabanino R, Barregard L, Lanaspa MA, Wesseling C, Harra T, Aragόn A, Grases F, Jarquin ER, González MA, Weiss I, Glaser J, Sánchez-Lozada LG, Johnson RJ. Heat Stress Nephropathy From Exercise-Induced Uric Acid Crystalluria: A Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy. Am J Kidney Dis. 2016;67(1):20-30. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.08.021. Epub 2015 Oct 9. PMID: 26455995.
Lucas R, Bodin T, García-Trabanino R, Wesseling C, Glaser J, Weiss I, Jarquin E, Jakobsson K, Wegman DH. Heat stress and workload associated with sugarcane cutting – an excessively strenuous occupation! Extrem Physiol Med. 2015;4(Suppl 1):A23. doi: 10.1186/2046-7648-4-S1-A23. PMCID: PMC4580831.
Bodin T, García-Trabanino R, Weiss I, Jarquín E, Glaser J, Jakobsson K, Lucas RA, Wesseling C, Hogstedt C, Wegman DH; WE Program Working Group. Intervention to reduce heat stress and improve efficiency among sugarcane workers in El Salvador: Phase 1. Occup Environ Med. 2016;73(6):409-16. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2016-103555. Epub 2016 Apr 12. PMID: 27073211; PMCID: PMC4893112.
García-Trabanino R, Cerdas M, Madero M, Jakobsson K, Barnoya J, Crowe J, Jarquín E, Guzmán-Quilo C, Correa-Rotter R. Mesoamerican nephropathy: Brief review based on the Second Workshop of the Consortium for the study of the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico (CENCAM). [Spanish] Nefrol Latinoam. 2017;14(1):39-45. DOI:10.1016/ j.nefrol.2016.11.001
Wegman DH, Apelqvist J, Bottai M, Ekström U, García-Trabanino R, Glaser J, Hogstedt C, Jakobsson K, Jarquín E, Lucas RAI, Weiss I, Wesseling C, Bodin T. Intervention to diminish dehydration and kidney damage among sugarcane workers. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2018;44(1):16-24. PMID:28691728
Roncal-Jimenez CA, Sato Y, Milagres T, Andres-Hernando A, Garcia GE, Bjornstad P, Butler-Dawson J, Sorensen C, Newman L, Krisher L, Madero M, Glaser J, Garcia-Trabannino R, Jarquin-Romero E, Song Z, Jensen T, Kuwabara M, Rodriguez-Iturbe B, Sanchez-Lozada LG, Lanaspa MA, Johnson RJ. Experimental Heat Stress Nephropathy and Liver Injury are Improved by Allopurinol. Am J Phys Renal Phys. 2018. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29667911
Garcia-Trabanino R, Romero Alejo JE, Rodriguez MV, Jarquin E, Vindell JJ. Association of Hyperuricemia to Mesoamerican Nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol 2018;29(Suppl):464 FR-PO178.