CURRICULUM VITAE
PROF. JAIME F. BRAVO MD
RHEUMATOLOGY – OSTEOPOROSIS
JOINT HYPERMOBILITY
I am a specialist in rheumatology and osteoporosis, graduated from The University of Chile Medical School, in 1961.
I started my studies at St. George's College, Santiago. In 1954, I entered the University of Chile Medical School. I started my rheumatology training at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, in Santiago in 1960. I worked in internal medicine and rheumatology at the hospitals and in private practice in Santiago and later I formed the Rheumatology Departments both of the Trudeau Hospital (1963) and the Police Hospital (1969).
From December 1964 till December 1966 I did a Fellowship in Rheumatology at The University of Colorado Medical Center. After that returned to Santiago, as staff member of the Rheumatology Department of the San Juan de Dios Hospital (1967-1970).
In 1970 I went back to the USA, to make a Residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado, for three years. The last year I was the Chief Resident. From 1974 till 1998 I participated in teaching at The University of Colorado Medical Center and at several hospitals in Denver (University Hospital, Veterans Medical Center, Saint Joseph, Saint Luke’s and Rose Medical Center) and at The Arthritis Foundation. In 1998 I was nominated “Rheumatology Clinical Professor", culminating this way my teaching career.
During two years I was the Director of the Regional Arthritis Program (1974 – 1975), for the states of Colorado and Wyoming. The program consisted in taking a group of specialists to different cities in these two states. We would visit hospitals, where we would discuss difficult patients, give conferences and public forums, about musculoskeletal diseases and osteoporosis.
I did private medical practice in Denver, Colorado, USA from 1974 till 1998. In 1976 together with Herb Kaplan. Walter Briney and Michael Schiff we formed “The Denver Arthritis Clinic”. This grew to be one of the most known private rheumatological clinic in the country. At Rose Medical Center we created a unique Center with a Team Approach for the Treatment of Rheumatic patients, which served as a model for other Centers around the country. The Clinic had two arms, one for the study of Osteoporosis and the other for Clinical Drug Research.
I was a Member of the Board of The Arthritis Foundation, Rocky Mountain Chapter (Colorado and Wyoming) for 32 years (1966 – 1998), participating in Committees locally and nationally (Central Office in Atlanta Georgia). I mainly participated in rheumatological education both at professional and community level.
Membership in Societies. Chilean Medical Society, Chilean Rheumatology Society, American College of Physicians (Emeritus), American College of Rheumatology (Emeritus).
Publications. In subjects as: Infectious Arthritis, Gout, Painful shoulder, Anti-inflammatory medications, Synovial biopsy, Osteoporosis, etc. One of my most important work was “Arthritis in Renal Transplants”. Besides my constant preoccupation about Osteoporosis, during the last years I have devoted most of my time to the study and investigation of the Hereditary Diseases of the Connective Tissue (HDCT) and specially a forme fruste of them, the Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (JHS). This is an emergent condition, usually not diagnosed and frequently confused with Fibromialgia. As a result of this, I have become a team member of the Spanish National associatoin of patients with JHS and other similar pathologies (Asociación Nacional de Afectados por el Síndrome de Hiperlaxitud y patologías afines, A.A.S.H), and the Asociación Síndromes de Ehlers-Danlos e Hiperlaxitud (ASEDH). In late 2004, I presented clinical research material regarding the Joint Hypermobility Syndrome both at San Antonio, Texas, and Termas de Chillan, Chile, rheumatology congresses. On 2005 I presented 2 posters in the Congreso de Reumatología del Cono sur (Rheumatology Meeting of the southern countries of South America ) held in Viña del Mar, Chile, and in February 2006, my most important article about Joint Hypermobility Syndrome was published in Arthritis & Rheumatism. I also published a study about Osteoporosis in Hypermobility, which was presented and the Panamerican League against Rheumatism (PANLAR), held in Lima Peru. Likewise, I presented another study about Hypermobility in the Anual Chilean Rheumatological Meeting, held in the city of La Serena, Chile. During the year 2007, I presented a poster at the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR) in Barcelona, Spain, about the Clinical Study of 972 JHS patients. Also in Barcelona, I gave a teleconference about hypermobility to the Hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Association (ASEDH). Later in 2007, I presented a study about 1124 cases of Ehlers-Danlos at the ACR Anual Meeting held in Boston, and was the coordinator/speaker of the Joint Hypermobility Study Group, which had the participation of the most reknown international specialists in this field. In 2009, I was nominated for the third year in a row as coordinator of this study group.
As years go by, I have continued my training participating in numerous Post Graduate Courses and Rheumatological Meetings, as attendant and participant, both in Chile and abroad.
In June 1998, and after 30 years in the United States, I returned to Santiago, Chile, where I currently do private practice and at the same time I teach Ad-Honorem (honorary member) at the Rheumatology Department of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, University of Chile. In the year 2009 I was named as Professor of the University of Chile Medical School.
I have 3 daughters and 6 grandchildren and in my free time I enjoy exercising, fishing, skeet, photography and reading. If you wish to communicate with me address yourself to:
JAIME F. BRAVO, MD
Luis Thayer Ojeda 0115, Of. 303 (Metro Tobalaba)
Santiago, Chile.
Phone +56 2 570 - 8505 +56 2 232 - 2768
FAX +56 2 335 - 9263