Name: Dr. Alejandro Vazquez
Position Title: Fecal Source Tracking
EDUCATION/TRAINING:
Institution and Location:
Universidad de Guanajuato,
Escuela de Medicina de Leon,
Guanajuato, Mexico
Degree:
Medicine
Year:
1981
Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Specialization
1986
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, New Mexico
M.S.
1989
Field of Study:
Medicine
Family Medicine
Biology
EXPERIENCE:
January 1994 to present - El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, Biology Instructor, tenured, Rio
Grande campus
July 1990 to December 1993 - El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, Biology Instructor, Part-time.
March 1984 to February 1987 - Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Ojinaga and Ciudad Juarez,
Chihuahua, Mexico. Family Medicine Physician.
PRESENTATIONS:
Graduate Thesis "Post-Partum Insertion of IUD", published in the October 1982 issue of the Journal of
the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
Presented the paper "Utilization of Carbon Sources by a Fungal Endophyte of Festuca Arizonica at the
1989 American Society for Microbiology, New Mexico Branch Meeting. October 1989,Socorro, New
Mexico.
Presentation of the paper "Microbial Densities of the Estero Morua in Puerto Penasco, Mexico, at the
International Symposium of MAES (Mexican American Engineers and Scientists) at El Paso, Texas,
January 1996
Received NSF Multiuser Equipment Grant, with other faculty members from El Paso Community College.
Spring 1997
Presentation A Source Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande River Using Antibiotics Resistance
Analysis@ at the American Society for Microbiology, Rio Grande Chapter Meeting, January 2002 at UTEP
El Paso, TX
Presentation ASource Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis@
at the ABRCMS Meeting, November 2002, New Orleans, LA
Poster ASource Tracking of Fecal Pollution of the Rio Grande Using Antibiotic Resistance Analysis@ASM
General Meeting, May 2003, Washington, D.C.
Accepted Poster presentation for the ABRCMS Meeting, October 2003, San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Attendance APolymerase Chain Reaction Technique Workshop, By Dr. Murtaza Abazhadegan, Arizona
State University, March 2001, Phoenix. AZ
Attendance to the workshop AMethodology for Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in Water@ By Dr.
Charles Hagedorn, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, July 2001, Blacksburg VA
Attendance an internship at the National Institutes of Health from June 12 to June 30, 2002, Bethesda
MD
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
American Society For Microbiology (ASM)