Jose Patricio Lopez Lopez studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (UNAB), Colombia. Then he completed internal medicine training in clinica FOSCAL in Bucaramanga. After finishing his training, he worked as a clinical teacher of the internal medicine training program at clinica FOSCAL and lecturer of semiology in UNAB medical school. Latter he trained in Cardiology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a member of the emergent leaders program from de Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiologia and the World Heart Federation.