Researchers Catalina Figueroa

Catalina Figueroa

PHD Candidate - OIO

Biography

Medical doctor from Chile, specialized in Internal Medicine, with international certification in Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM, 2019). Holds a MSc in One Health from Utrecht University, where she focused on data visualization methods to integrate environmental, lifestyle, and biological data for individual exposome risk assessment, supporting the future development of an exposome app.

Currently a researcher (PhDc) at UMC Utrecht, studying the implementation of lifestyle medicine in secondary and tertiary care.

Over 10 years of clinical experience in hospital and outpatient care in Chile, with additional experience in education, including undergraduate medical training and Lifestyle Medicine Certificate Programs in Chile.

Co-founder and inaugural president of the Chilean Society of Lifestyle Medicine (2020–2022).

Contact

c.p.figueroa-2@umcutrecht.nl

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Defining the Traditional Mediterranean Lifestyle Labros S. Sidossis, Rob Lawson, Emmanuel Aprilakis, Bernardo C. Barata, Alicja Baska, Anastasia Beneka, Robert Bird, Fraser Birrell, Charistoula Chatzinikola, Maria Chondronikola, George P. Chrousos, Russell Conduit, Constantina Constantinou, Barbora de Courten, Jelena Helene Cvejic, Andrew M. Davis, Christiana A. Demetriou, Linda Errington, Jack Feehan, Catalina Figueroa, Mary M. Flynn, Beth Frates, Robel Hussen Kabthymer, Leonidas G. Karagounis, Leila Karimi, Gerard A. Kennedy, Ourania Kolokotroni, Darinka Korovljev, Antigone Kouris-Blazos, Mehdi Kushkestani, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Emanuela Mercore Hutanu, Maria Cecilia Mosquera, Elena Nikiphorou, Nicola O'Brien, Elena Philippou, Karolina Piątek, Simon Poole, Dana Popescu-Spineni, Sue Radd-Vagenas, Amalia Sidossis, Magdalena Simonis, Helen Soultanakis, Aleksandra Telinga, Audrey Tierney, Anna Tkacz, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Gulnur Yaman-Dent, Yang Yap, Zoe Zervides, Catherine Itsiopoulos
Lifestyle Medicine, 2024, vol. 5

Introducing Plant-Based Mediterranean Diet as a Lifestyle Medicine Approach in Latin America: Opportunities Within the Chilean Context Catalina Figueroa
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021, vol. 8

Results of a New Telemedicine Strategy in Traumatology and Orthopedics Carlos E. Prada, Nicolas Izquierdo, Reinaldo Traipe, Catalina Figueroa
Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, 2020, vol. 26, p.665-670

Portafolio en pregrado de Medicina Diego Reyes, Lorena Isbej, Javier Uribe, Cristián Ruz, Margarita Pizarro, Rosa Walker, Pedro Pérez-Cruz, Armando Maldonado, Camila Robles, Gonzalo Latorre, Danisa Ivanovic-Zuvic, Catalina Figueroa, Agustín González, Petre Cotoras, Carolina Núñez, Jaime Labarca, Arnoldo Riquelme
Revista Médica de Chile, 2019, vol. 147, p.790-798

El ácido nicotínico aumenta el transporte celular de colesterol de las lipoproteínas de alta densidad en pacientes con hipoalfalipoproteinemia Catalina Figueroa, Katherine Droppelmann, Verónica Quiñones, Ludwig Amigo, Camila Mendoza, Valentina Serrano, Margarita Véjar, Alberto Maiz, Attilio Rigotti
Revista Médica de Chile, 2015, vol. 143, p.1097-1104

Incorporación de paciente virtual en portafolio de estudiantes de medicina de pregrado Catalina Figueroa, Ignacio Calvo, Carolina González, Daniela Sandoval, Oslando Padilla, Catalina Le Roy, Alejandro Delfino, Juan Pablo Arab, Margarita Pizarro, Nancy Solís, Arnoldo Riquelme, Arnoldo Riquelme
Revista Médica de Chile, 2015, vol. 143, p.175-182