Name: Dr. Alejandro Vazquez
Position Title: Fecal Source Tracking
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
Institution and Location: Degree: Year: Field of Study:
Universidad de Guanajuato, Medicine 1981 Medicine
Escuela de Medicina de Leon,
Guanajuato, Mexico
Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua Specialization 1986 Family Medicine
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
New Mexico State University, M.S. 1989 Biology
Las Cruces, New Mexico
EXPERIENCE:
January 1994 to present - El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, Biology Instructor, tenured, Rio Grande campus
July 1990 to December 1993 - El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, Biology Instructor, Part-time.
March 1984 to February 1987 - Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ojinaga and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Family Medicine Physician.
PRESENTATIONS:
Graduate Thesis "Post-Partum Insertion of IUD", published in the october 1982 issue of the Journal of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
Presented the paper "Utilization of Carbon Sources by a Fungal Endophyte of Festuca Arizonica at the 1989 American Society for Microbiology, New Mexico Branch Meeting. October 1989,Socorro, New Mexico.
Presentation of the paper "Microbial Densities of the Estero Morua in Puerto Penasco, Mexico,at the International Symposium of MAES (Mexican American Engineers and Scientists) at El Paso, Texas, January 1996
Received NSF Multiuser Equipment Grant, with other faculty members from El Paso Community College.Spring 1997
Presentation A Source Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande River Using Antibiotics Resistance Analysis@ at the American Society for Microbiology, Rio Grande Chapter Meeting, January 2002 at UTEP El Paso, TX
Presentation ASource Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis@ at the ABRCMS Meeting, November 2002, New Orleans, LA
Poster ASource Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis@ASM General Meeting, May 2003, Washington, D.C.
Accepted Poster presentation for the ABRCMS Meeting, October 2003, San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Attendance APolymerase Chain Reaction Technique Workshop, By Dr. Murtaza Abazhadegan, Arizona State University, March 2001, Phoenix. AZ
Attendance to the workshop AMethodology for Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water@ By Dr. Charles Hagedorn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, July 2001, Blacksburg VA
Attendance an internship at the National Institutes of Health from June 12 to June 30, 2002, Bethesda MD
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Society For Microbiology (ASM)