Medical Degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina ( UBA) , Faculty of Medicine ( 1990 ) Specialist in Pediatrics. Clinical Pediatrics Fellowship in Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutiérrez (Buenos Aires, Argentina ) Certificate by the Argentine Society of Pediatrics. December 2010 Specialist in Pediatric Intensive Care from the Argentine Society of Intensive Care Medical Staff Children’s Hospital "Dr. R. Gutierrez ". Intermediate and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Member of the Pediatric Chapter of the Argentine Society of Intensive Care Secretary of the Management, Quality and Scores Committee, Argentine Society of Intensive Care. Secretary of the Latin-American Society of Pediatric Intensive Care ( SLACIP) Teaching collaborator of the Specialist Career on Pediatric Intensive Care. Faculty of Medicine. UBA. Reviewer of several scientific publications as Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria, Revista Argentina de Terapia Intensiva ( SATI ) Research Presentation in national and international congresses of Pediatric Intensive Care as lecturer and oral and poster presentations. Coordinated several multicenter investigations like Validation of pediatric Index of Mortality PIM2 in Latin America , Validation of PIM3 Score in Argentina, Prevalence of Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions in PICU in Argentina.

Maria Pilar Arias Lopez Research Interests are Pediatric Intensive Care, Scores of mortality and morbidity, Infection control, Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions in PICU.