Alvaro Altamirano Ufion, MD

With his primary clinical practice home as a hospitalist at Banner – UMC South, Dr. Altamirano joined the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson faculty in 2018, and is currently a fellow in the Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship through the Division of Cardiology and the Sarver Heart Center. His work experience includes most recently having been a student coordinator for the Kaplan Test Prep Center in Pasadena, California, for U.S. Medical License Examinations (USMLE). Before that, he was a general practitioner with the Nicaragua Ministry of Health. He has served as a volunteer for Chagas disease outreach clinic and health fairs in Los Angeles and a research volunteer at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, California. In addition, he has done a externship rotation in cardiology at City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California, and internal medicine rotations at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Altamirano’s research — co-authored largely with Dr. Roshanak Habibi — has focused on hypothyroidism and cardiovascular disease, Chagas disease among patients with pacemakers (particularly Latin American immigrants), cirrhosis in HIV-positive patients, diabetes and gout. He is from Nicaragua speaks English and Spanish.