Cohort 
2023

Aníbal Gutiérrez Torres, MD

Geriatrician

We need to reinforce public healthcare systems and ensure access to universal healthcare that covers brain health regardless of social background.

Current Work

Aníbal is a geriatrician currently based on Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. His work primarily consists of caring for elderly patients with multiple comorbidities, including different dementias.

Personal Hero

My family and my mentors at Partners In Health.

Words of Strength

Resilient and Analytic

Vision

To reduce the impact of dementia worldwide we should focus on fighting the social inequities in health. We need to reinforce public healthcare systems and ensure access to universal healthcare that covers brain health regardless of social background.

Strategy

During his social service Aníbal worked with a community in rural Mexico and studied Global Health and Social Medicine in order to understand the inequities in healthcare systems so that he can change them in the future.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow he hopes to receive the training and knowledge necessary to implement changes in public healthcare systems that would give people with limited resources an even ground so they can get the brain health they need and deserve.

Motivation

In Mexico dementia is not covered by public health care, making this a barrier for people with limited resources to get access to proper screening, prevention and treatment. Aníbal hopes that by reinforcing healthcare systems we can stop this inequity.