Dr. Jesus M. Feris

Department Chief

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital

Jesus Feris Iglesias graduated as Doctor in Medicine in 1971 and in 1975 obtained his degree as Specialist in Pediatrics from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Hospital Infantil de Mexico. Since 1975 he has been teaching pediatrics at Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, and titular pediatrics teacher at the same institution.

From 1975 to 1978 he was chief of the Intensive Care Department unit at the Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Children´s Hospital in Santo Domingo and since 1978 chief of the Infectious Disease Department at the same hospital. Also he has been working in clinical researches since 1980 and has more than 70 scientific papers in national and international magazines. He was founder President of the Sociedad Dominicana de Infectologia and National Institute of Health, president of the Dominican Pediatrics Society and Sociedad Panamericana de Infectologia (2007-2009) and actually is the President of the Fundacion Dominicana de Infectologia, Inc. Has been recognized in many occasions, among those are the James Nakano prize, given by the Center for Diseases and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, as recognition for the best medical article published, in 2001. Also the Federico Gomez Medal at the Federico Gomez Children´s Hospital in Mexico City for being the most outstanding pediatric doctor in foreign lands, also too he was named Master of the Dominican Pediatrics by the Dominican Pediatrics Society in 2007.