José E. Herrera MD, is a doctor graduated from the Universidad de los Andes Merida Venezuela in 1977, with a postgraduate degree in Cardiology in 1981 and a subspecialty in echocardiography in 1984 at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in the city of Philadelphia, USA.
Dr. has been Head of the Cardiology Unit of the Central Hospital Dr. Luis Ortega in Porlamar. State of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela (from 1985-1989).
Dr. is the discoverer of a spontaneous natural phenomenon that regulates hypervolemia in patients with heart failure. Published at the heart failure congress in Gutenberg 2011 and in Lisbon 2013.
The doctor. Herrera created a balloon catheter device that mimics his discovery. This device was patented in the patent office of the United States, Russia, Europe Geneva.
Dr. participated in different TCT Meeting and ICI Meeting Israel where he was awarded with the Cardiovascular Innovation Award