"The Seventh-day Adventist Church today inaugurated a medical school in Peru, the first Adventist school of medicine in the Northwestern region of South America.
Church leaders said the School of Human Medicine at Peruvian Union University in Lima expands the church’s capacity for healthcare ministry in Peru and surrounding Spanish-speaking countries, an area with great demand for Adventist physicians.
The school’s founding dean, Dr. Carlos Alfonso Balarezo, is a Peruvian national who has served as chief of surgery at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Riverside, California, United States, and as an associate professor of surgery at nearby Loma Linda University’s School of Medicine. He also holds the title of Master of Peruvian Surgery, a distinction awarded by the Peruvian Surgical Society and held by only three people.
Balarezo said he left the United States five years ago to join the team that established the school. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to help mold these students,” Balarezo said in an interview. “Like Loma Linda [University], we want to place a lot of emphasis on preventative care. This will differentiate us from other medical schools here.”
The new school is the Adventist world church’s fifth medical school. Today’s inauguration comes three months after the Benjamin S. Carson Sr. School of Medicine opened at church-run Babcock University in Nigeria.
The Adventist Church also operates medical schools at Adventist universities in Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico; Liberator San Martín, Entre Rios, Argentina; and its flagship school in Loma Linda, California, United States.
Adventist Education leaders say a sixth medical school is being developed in the Philippines."
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Church leaders said the School of Human Medicine at Peruvian Union University in Lima expands the church’s capacity for healthcare ministry in Peru and surrounding Spanish-speaking countries, an area with great demand for Adventist physicians.
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Balarezo said he left the United States five years ago to join the team that established the school. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to help mold these students,” Balarezo said in an interview. “Like Loma Linda [University], we want to place a lot of emphasis on preventative care. This will differentiate us from other medical schools here.”
The new school is the Adventist world church’s fifth medical school. Today’s inauguration comes three months after the Benjamin S. Carson Sr. School of Medicine opened at church-run Babcock University in Nigeria.
The Adventist Church also operates medical schools at Adventist universities in Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico; Liberator San Martín, Entre Rios, Argentina; and its flagship school in Loma Linda, California, United States.
Adventist Education leaders say a sixth medical school is being developed in the Philippines."
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