Jose Patricio Lopez Lopez obtained his degree in medicine and became an internal medicine specialist at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Colombia. He trained in Cardiology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He then completed a training in Cardio-Oncology at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He is a member of the emergent leaders program from de Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiologia and the World Heart Federation.