Pablo is a final-year medical student at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. During medical school, Pablo developed a keen interest in Humanitarian Healthcare, completing several courses, including ‘Building a Better Response’ and ‘Introduction to Humanitarian Healthcare,’ run by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Royal College of Surgeons, respectively. From these, he learned the key principles of humanitarian care, the cluster system approach, how governments and NGOs plan and fund disaster responses, and how to manage complex humanitarian emergencies.

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Pablo’s personal experience with major orthopaedic surgery has led him to explore this specialty further: his dissertation – “The role of Radiological Imaging in the Diagnosis, Classification, and Management of Perthes Disease” earned an A+ grade and was shortlisted for the Sutton Prize. He co-created the BL POCUS Society (Point Of Care UltraSound) ahead of its integration into the medical school curriculum in 2026.

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He hopes that his medical elective in April 2025 will allow him to further explore his interests in humanitarian and trauma care. He will be experiencing trauma and emergency medicine in Cuenca, Ecuador.

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In his spare time, Pablo enjoys playing sports: he is President of the BL Tennis Society, is a licensed line umpire at professional tournaments and plays mixed lacrosse.

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