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Carlos García Saúl
Carlos García Saúl is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in Biology in 1985. His medical degree is from Yale Universit...view moreCarlos García Saúl is a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in Biology in 1985. His medical degree is from Yale University and his surgical training in Head and Neck Surgery was completed at the Harvard Medical School. He practiced medicine for 28 years in Massachusetts and Kansas. Dr Garcia Saúl's academic interests include the history of medicine and its responses to the political climate of the 19th and 20th centuries. The story of the conquest of the parasitic anemia in Puerto Rico has been of particular personal and professional interest. He considered the defeat of the infectious anemia agent in Puerto Rico to be socially and economically on par with the remarkable advances of the 1940s and 1950s and the economic miracle of Operation Bootstrap. Dr. García Saúl's other interests include art history, traveling, and collecting rare orchids and Taino artifacts. Since retiring, he has resided in Saint Petersburg, Florida with with his wife, Lisa.view less