Dr. Diana Morales Castro

Clinical Fellow

Medical/professional qualifications
MD

Affiliations
Clinical Fellow, University of Toronto, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography
Dr. Diana Morales completed her medical degree from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2011, she undertook her Anesthesia and Recovery specialty in the same university and completed it on February 2015. In 2015 she started the Masters´ Degree in Perioperative Medicine from the University College of London. Since she finished her postgraduate training, she has been working at the Trauma Hospital, where she leader the anesthesia service for one year, during that time she worked with a multidisciplinary team to standardize the surgical pathway and created the first preoperative consult of anesthesiologists in Costa Rica.

Academic Interests
Critical care of surgical and trauma patients
High-risk surgical patients
Quality of care

Publications
Diana Morales Castro. Valoración preoperatoria: función anestésica. (Preoperative Assessment: Anaesthesia Responsibility Bibliographical Review). Medicina Legal de Costa Rica.

Diana Morales Castro, Mónica Quesada Arias, Carlos Ugalde Ovares. Detección de Contaminación en el Equipo Anestésico de Sala de Operaciones del Hospital México, Junio 2014 (México Hospital Anaesthesia Equipment Contamination Detection, June 2014). Medicina Legal de Costa Rica

Personal Interests
Spending time with family, Running

Contact
dmc2307@hotmail.com