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    Featured Physician Profile.
    September 25, 2000
    Gustavo Zubieta-Castillo, Sr., M.D.
    Address:
    Avenue Saavedra 2302
    P.O.Box 2852
    La Paz, Bolivia
    Phone:
    591.2.245.394
    Fax:
    591.2.229.504
    Email:
    Website:
    A specialist in High Altitude Medicine & Physiology as well as Internal Medicine, Dr. Zubieta is the President of the High Altitude Pathology Institute, in La Paz. A graduate of the Universidad Mayor de San Andres School of Medicine in Bolivia, Dr. Zubieta received additional training at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. Dr. Zubieta is a frequent lecturer on issues in the field of high altitude medicine and is a Visiting Professor at Tulane University, Louisiana, USA. His work on High Altitude Medicine was featured in the April, 1987 edition of National Geographic magazine.

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