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The Chilean Hypertension Society is a non-profit society created in the year 1987 with the aim of developing research, teaching and assistance in the field of arterial hypertension, also carrying out outreach activities to the general population.

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  • The Society is constituted by members of four categories: regular partners, honorary partners, Corresponding Partners and Collaborating Partners.
  • For the development of its work, the Society is directed at the national level by the General Assembly (meeting of all full and honorary partners) and the directory chosen by it with a duration of 2 years.

For the period 2024 – 2026 The Board of Directors has a composition:

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DR. JUAN RAMÓN SOTO SILVA

President of the Chilean Society of Arterial Hypertension

  • Médico – Cirujano por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
  • Specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology from the University of Chile.
  • Fellowship in Nuclear Cardiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Of. His.
  • Holder of the Medical Society of Santiago, Chilean Society of Chilean Cardiology and Society of Hypertension.
  • Director of the Chilean Hypertension Society (October 2018 as of June 2022).
  • President of the Chilean Hypertension Society (August 2024 to date).V
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Dra María Paz Ocaranza

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  • Professor, Cardiovascular Disease Division
  • Faculty of Medicine, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Center Director New drugs for hypertension and heart failure, Cendhy
  • Associated Researcher Advanced Center for Chronic Actions ACCDIS
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Patricia Morgado Alcayaga

Past President of the Chilean Hypertension Society

  • Past President of the Chilean Hypertension Society
  • Motronation of the University of Chile
  • Nurse-Matrona of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • Diploma in Health Institutions Management of the University of Chile
  • He worked as a nurse in charge of the Cardiovascular Health and Diabetes Program of the Ministry of Health between 1992 y 2018.
  • Teacher and monitor of blood pressure measurement workshops
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DR. Cristián Amador Carrasco

Treasurer of the Chilean Hypertension Society

  • Biologist of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • Doctor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Chile
  • Post Doctorate in Nephrology at Center de Recherche Des Cordeliers from Sorbonne University – INSERM PARIS, France
  • Experimental renal transplant stay at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine and Sciences of the San Sebastián University.
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DR. Patricio Araos Salas

General Secretary of the Chilean Society of Hypertension

  • Biochemist Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
  • Ph.D in Pharmacology University of Chile
  • Assistant Professor Autonomous University of Chile
  • Head of Hypertension and Kidney Immunology Lab.
  • Work area: Relationship between immune system and arterial hypertension
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DRA. CAROLINA AGUILAR LAUSIC

Director of the Chilean Society of Arterial Hypertension

  • Surgeon of the University of Concepción
  • Internal Medicine Specialty of the University of La Frontera
  • Nephrology Subspecialty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • Member of the Chilean Society of Nephrology and Chilean Hypertension Society

DR. ALEJANDRO ABUFHELE BUS

Director of the Chilean Society of Arterial Hypertension

  • Member of the Chilean Society of Nephrology and Chilean Hypertension Society

Dr. LUIS TORO CABRERA

Director of the Chilean Society of Arterial Hypertension

  • Member of the Chilean Society of Nephrology and Chilean Hypertension Society