Gilberto Pablo Pardo Gómez

Pardo Gómez is a Second Degree Specialist in General Surgery and Full Professor,

Son of a physician who practiced his profession in Holguín and of a housewife from a well-to-do farming family.

He began his medical studies at the "General Calixto García" University Hospital in September 1944 and graduated in October 1951, having dedicated most of his professional life to training young surgeons from different generations.

In the 1950s he obtained, through competitive examination, a position as internal physician and later resident at Calixto García, and his curriculum is thereafter enviable: internship in Chicago as a rotating intern at Michael Reese Hospital; scholarship sponsored by the British Council for King's College in London; chief of surgical services, of surgical units, subdirector and director of Calixto García and Joaquín Albarrán hospitals; internationalist missions in Nicaragua, Peru and Mexico in the 1970s… Without overlooking membership in Cuban and foreign scientific federations and societies.

He has participated in 77 national events and 30 international events, has to his credit 15 research projects and 59 publications, of which 10 are international.

But perhaps most important is his condition as a teacher, as a formator. Not without reason this Doctor of Science, Full Professor of Surgery of the faculties of La Habana, Oriente and Las Villas —architect of the program for that discipline in the Curriculum in effect since 1982—, holds the position of Consulting Professor and Professor of Merit of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of La Habana, and presides over the Permanent Court for Scientific Degrees in Surgical Specialties of the Ministry of Higher Education.

Positions Held
Director of "General Calixto García" University Hospital (January and February 1959)
Chief of the Surgical Unit (1960 – 1961)
Deputy Director of "General Calixto García" Hospital (1961 – 1962)
Chief of the Department of Surgery and Services (1962 – 1976)
Deputy Director (1963 – 1965)
Director (1965 – 1967) and again Deputy Director of "Joaquín Albarrán" Hospital (1968 – 1970)
Chief of the Department of Surgery Teaching of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (1969 – 1976)

Assigned Responsibilities
Member of the Committee for Recognition of Surgical Specialties (MINSAP – 1966)
Member of the Commission that drafted and perfected the General Surgery Residency programs (1966, 1973, 1986 and 2008)
Member of the Court for the ratification and/or evaluation of the categories of Auxiliary or Full Professor of personnel appointed after 1966 in the School of Medicine of the University of La Habana (1976)
Member of the Advisory Commission of the Director of the School of Medicine of the University of La Habana (1968 – 1976)
President of a State Surgery Court of the Province of the City of La Habana (April – October 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978)
Member of the Central Methodological Commission of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of La Habana (1977 – 1986)
Member of the National Commission of Scientific Degrees – Biomedicine Section (1975- 2009)
Author of the Surgery Course Program in the Medical Studies Curriculum, in effect (1982) and the new one (2015)
Member of the National Commission of Scientific Degrees, which drafted the program for the Candidacy Examination of Surgical Specialties (1983)
Member of the Court of the Commission of Scientific Degrees – Biomedicine Section, to analyze files of applicants for recognition of the degrees of Candidate for Doctor and Doctor of Science (January 1983)
Author of the program for the Surgery portion of the General Adult Internship (1983)
President of one of two Courts for Specialization of Second Degree in General Surgery (1983 to present)
Member of the Permanent Court of Surgical Specialties for obtaining Scientific Degrees (1985 to present)
Member of the Commission that drafted the program for Cardiovascular Surgery Residency (1985)
President of the CARE of ISCM-H to the present
President of the Permanent Court of Surgical Specialties for obtaining Scientific Degrees (2006-2009)

Awards and Recognition
Scientific Degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences on February 10, 1981
Consulting Professor of Surgery in 1997
Professor of Merit in 2002