Melchor Sánchez

Coordinator of Educational Development and Curricular Innovation at UNAM

Dr. Melchor Sanchez is a Mexican pediatrician and medical educator. He studied medicine and pediatrics at the Mexican Army Medical School and Central Military Hospital, Mexican Army and Air Force University. He worked as a clinical research fellow in the Laboratory of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. He has the degree of Master in Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a PhD in Educational Sciences at UNAM. He is tenured full Professor at the Postgraduate Studies Division, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Faculty of Medicine in Mexico City. He is responsible for the Master’s and Doctorate in Education in Health Sciences program at UNAM.

He has been a lecturer in more than 500 continuing education courses in Mexico and abroad, on issues related to medical education, evidence-based medicine, pediatrics, medical decision making and biomedical informatics. Author and co-author of 100 articles in national and international journals, 48 book chapters, author-editor of 9 books and tutor of 36 thesis at the college, master and doctorate levels. He is Associate Editor of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education, and Editor of the journal Research in Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM. He is member of several academic organizations, including the Mexican National Academy of Medicine, the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education, the Association for Medical Education in Europe, among others.