My name is Jaime G. Valle Leal, a specialist in pediatrics and nutrition, attached to the research department, at the regional General Hospital Number One of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. I am currently a teacher of pediatric doctors in training, also in pediatric nursing courses. I teach research methodology, scientific writing and I am tutor of degree thesis for medical specialists. I have worked on research on childhood obesity and other pediatric and neonatal diseases. We have published 8 articles, some related to metabolic risk in obese children, predisposing factors for bronchial asthma control, family disintegration in children with asthma, total GI E diagnosis capacity for allergies in pediatric patients, clinical subtypes of idiopathic infantile arthritis, Pulmonary complications of mechanical ventilation in neonates, factors associated with hemodynamic repercussion in neonates with persistent ductus arteriosus, clinical cases of dermatological and hematological diseases

Jaime G. Valle Leal research interest are childhood obesity and endocrinological alterations in the pediatric population