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Dr. Marcelo H. Losso

Dr. Marcelo H. Losso currently directs the Immunocompromised Service of the Hospital General de Agudos JM Ramos Mejía in Buenos Aires, he is an Independent Researcher of the Health Researcher Career at the Ministry of Health, GCBA, Principal Investigator responsible of the Research Area in Emerging Diseases, JM Ramos Mejía Hospital, Professor of the Department of Pharmacology of the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Medicine and Director of CICAL (Coordination of Academic Clinical Research in Latin America). He received his medical degree with honors from the University of Buenos Aires Medical School. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the JM Ramos Mejía Hospital and continued his postgraduate training in HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Maryland, USA. Later, he organized a unit dedicated to general clinical care and clinical research on HIV infection in the hospital where he was trained, which he currently directs. During the last 20 years he has been dedicated to the development of networks for the implementation of academic clinical trials on HIV infection in Latin America, particularly in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico. Dr. Losso was the Co-Director of one of the largest completed clinical trials in the treatment of HIV, the ESPRIT study; and participated in the main analysis and communication of the results of SMART and START, two of the most significant contributions to the knowledge about antiretroviral treatment and which are the basis of all available treatment guidelines. He has published more than 200 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed publications. He is currently a Member of the Scientific Committee of INSIGHT, Member of the Executive Committee of EuroSIDA and Fellow of the MRCT of Harvard University. As Leader of the HIV Service at Hospital General de Agudos JM Ramos Mejía and Director of CICAL, he has developed extensive experience in conducting and implementing clinical trials, and has been principal investigator for Argentina of a variety of projects, including a productive one international collaboration with the INSIGHT, HPTN, HVTN and IMPAACT networks of the NIH in the USA, the Kirby Institute in Australia and Eurocoord in the European Community. In the framework of the health crisis produced by COVID-19, his research effort has focused on managing the response to the pandemic at the JM Ramos Mejía Hospital. In this framework, it has obtained numerous subsidies that have allowed the inauguration of a physical plant for research on Emerging Diseases in that hospital, and to develop several prevention studies, including the TraSal project for incidence in health workers, the ENSEMBLE project for a vaccine against COVID -19 and other projects in definition of natural history, treatment and implementation. He has served as a member and Director of the Research Ethics Committee of the Ramos Mejía Hospital and was a member of the Central Committee of Research Ethics of the Ministry of Health of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
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Cecilia Abela

Clinical Operations Manager
cabela@cical.org

She is a Registered Nurse, having worked in critical care environments. Furthermore, she worked as a Senior Clinical Research Associate in Pfizer and Latin Trials; as a Regional Project Manager at MDS Pharma Services and Whyeth; and as Team Coordinator of the Therapy Area of Neurology and Ophthalmology Units in the Pharmacovigilance Department in Cognizant Technology Solutions. She attended two internships in Clinical Research in the United States, Duke University Medical Center and Pfizer Central Research.
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Myriam Scherer

Quality programs coordinator
mscherer@hivramos.org.ar
Myrian has a degree in nursing from the National University of Rosario. She worked as a nurse in the intensive care unit at the Clinic and Maternity Suizo Argentina, has experience in cardiovascular recovery. In addition, she worked as an Infection Control nurse for 22 years at the Argentine Institute of Diagnosis and Treatment, where she was responsible for the infection control program of the entire institution. She was secretary of the Argentine Association of Nurses in Infection Control, she served as coordinator of the First National Campaign for Hand Hygiene in 2011 (Ministry of Health of the Nation-ADECI). In addition, he has experience in quality and patient safety, process improvement, drafting, review of standards and procedures, training in teamwork (training in the TeamStepps model), tasks that he currently performs.
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Dr. Javier Toibaro

He is a Medical Doctor specialized in internal medicine. He has a specialization in Statistics for Health Science and in Pharmacology. He is a Professor of the University of Buenos Aires, and a Coordinator of the Clinical Pharmacology Committee of “Hospital General de Agudos J. M. Ramos Mejía”. With more than fourteen years of experience in clinical research and technical counseling in observational studies for OPS ONUSIDA and UNICEF, he is the leader of TB/HIV studies in CICAL.
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Leonardo Perelis

Psychologist and specialist in Research Ethics. Member of the Ethics Committees of the Hospital General de Agudos J. M. Ramos Mejía and Iniciativa y Reflexión Bioética (IRB). Member of the Central Research Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires and president of the Community Relations Commission of the National Advisory Committee on Research Ethics of the Ministry of Health of the Nation Coordinator of the Communuty Advisor Board in Argentina . Members of the international networks of Clinical Trials of HPTN, HVTN, IMPAACT, INSIGHT and COVPN.
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Florencia Mozzarelli

Clinical Trials Monitor and Coordinator
fmozzarelli@hivramos.org.ar
Completed her training in the Clinical Trial Monitoring Course and carried out her work as Coordinator in the Infectious Diseases Unit at Hospital Pirovano in Buenos Aires. She joined CICAL in 2023 to serve as Clinical Trials coordinator and monitor.
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Griselda Flores

Treasurer, IBIS Foundation. Account manager, CICAL
gflores@cical.org
She is Technician in Business Administration. Griselda has 22 years of experience in accounting and general business administration. In addition, she studied and finished his studies in the Economics and Management of Organizations Facultly.
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Bruno Boninsegna

Completed his studies in Pharmacy at the J F. Kennedy University in Buenos Aires, completed his residency, Chief of Residents and specialty in Hospital Pharmacy at the Central Military Hospital and was Head of the Drugs Section at the Pharmacy in the same Hospital. He joined CICAL in 2023 as an Associate Pharmacist to develop clinical research.
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Tomás Schverdfinger

Tomás graduated as a Pharmacist at the UBA. He has 8 years of experience in hospital pharmacy and 2 years of experience in the industry, in the production sector (Pfizer). In addition, he is completing a postgraduate course in clinical research at the Ramos Mejia Hospital. Tomás is currently PA (Associate Pharmacist) in various research projects at the J. M. Ramos Mejía General Hospital for Acute Care, including HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. Among the tasks he performs are the control of medical prescriptions, medication preparation, stock control, dispensing and temperatures.
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Lorena D. Reynoso

Administrative of the Finance and Legal Area
ldreynoso@cical.org

Technician in Business Administration. Lorena has 19 years of experience in administrative-accounting tasks, information analysis and auditing tasks. She has served as a sector manager with personnel in charge, in the Transportation area. She currently works as an administrative officer in the finance area where she enter data related to studies and bank reconciliations.

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Angeles Acevedo

Is an advanced student of Nutrition Licenciature at the University of Salvador, she completed the Clinical Trials Monitoring Course in 2021 and joined CICAL in 2023 to work on the data management team.
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Sofia Frankel

Graduate in Sociology at the Social Sciences faculty of the UBA. Sofia is part of the data team and is in charge of entry, quality control and quality assurance of the data from the different clinical studies that we integrate.
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Candelaria Benedetti

Candelaria is part of the data team and is in charge of entry, quality control and quality assurance of the data from the different clinical studies that we integrate.
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Sabrina Francavilla

Sabrina performs administrative tasks in the different studies that we integrate. He receives study participants when they attend visits, she is in charge of contacting study participants to schedule visits and contacting potential participants.
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Clara Torchia

Administrativa
ctorchia@cical.org
Clara studied at the Argentine Institute of Executive Secretaries. Clara performs administrative tasks in the different studies that we integrate. He receives study participants when they attend visits, she is in charge of contacting study participants to schedule visits and contacting potential participants.
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Florencia Soria

Administrative assistant for patient care

Social communication bachelor's student at UNLaM. He currently performs the administrative tasks of the Immunocompromised service of the Ramos Mejía Hospital

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Cecilia Etchart

Administrative Assistant for Clinical Operations
cetchart@cical.org
Administrative Assistant for Clinical Operations
Descripcion: Cecilia Etchart studied at the Argentine Institute of Executive Secretaries. She performs administrative tasks in the central office of the IBIS foundation: Maintenance of regulatory files, preparation of personnel files and management and preparation of budgets for purchases of supplies for clinical research. Also she controls of the stock of supplies of the Foundation and the Hospital J. M. Ramos Mejía, request and control of calibration of medical equipment, etc.

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