Welcome to the official web site of the Finlay Medical Society. Finlay Medical Society is a non-profit organization of medical professionals, students, educators, clinical investigators, public health and epidemiology enthusiasts, cultural lovers and community activists and their associates and friends.

Bienvenidos al sitio oficial de la Sociedad Médica Finlay. Estamos establecidos como una organización no-lucrativa de profesionales de la medicina, estudiantes, educadores, investigadores clínicos, entusiastas en salud pública y epidemiología, amantes de la cultura y activistas de la comunidad en donde radicamos con sus asociados y amigos.

What is happening in our site
Lo que está pasando en nuestro sitio

Cuba's Health in Transition and the Central and Eastern European Countries Experience.
 Antonio Maria de Gordon

Health and Health Care In Cuba:
The Transition from Socialism to the Future.
 Antonio Maria de Gordon

Cuba's free medical education for US students.
July 5, 2001



Brief History of the Finlay Medical Society

Our Picture Album

  • Photo gallery of activies of the Finlay Medical Society
  • Galería fotográfica de los Finlaistas en sus actividades

Orientation to our site

The Tomás Romay Initative is essencially the work we do either as part of our professional groups or in our practices. Dr. Tomás Romay was a pioneer of Cuban organized medicine bridging the XVIII and XIX centuries.

The Finlay Institute is the result of our clinical investigations and efforts to provide public health back up to our people. Cuban public health in the island of Cuba, MINSAP, is in great manner under the control of the political leaders of the Revolution. Therefore, the Cubans who fall off the Revolution are ill served or not served at all by the MINSAP. While most Cubans exiled from the Revolution are residing in the United States, the U.S. Public Health Service does not recognize the Cubans in the U.S. in any special form.
Therefore, it is not unexpected that the health aspects of the Cuban-American community may need special attention from groups such as ours. The Finaly Institute is monitoring aspects of health of Cuban-Americans and providing a forum for clinical investigations that confirm and enhance our understanding of health and disease.

The Nicolás Gutiérrez Academy is the community activists area, bioethics
department, and historical aspect of our Society. It is named after Dr. Nicolás J. Gutiérrez who founded the real Academia de Ciencias Físicas, Médicas y Naturales de La Habana en 1861 and began publishing the Annals of the Academy of Sciences in Cuba in 1864.

The Albarran School of Medicine and Surgery is essentially a virtual medical school. It is used by our members and our student members. The school provides a forum for participants all over the world to bring forth their questions and points of view. Dr Joaquín Albarran was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba and studied medicine in Barcelona, Spain and later in Paris. He did all his professional work outside of the island of Cuba. Therefore, Albarrán presents a historical medical figure that is a complement to that of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay. The latter studied medicine abroad in the United States but did essentially all his clinical work, elegant epidemiology, careful clinical experimentation, pioneering microbiology of viruses, and effective public health interventions in the island of Cuba.

 

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