Rodríguez-Llamazares | Department of Medicine | School of Medicine

Sebastián Rodríguez-Llamazares

Position(s)

Assistant Professor

Dr. Sebastián Rodríguez-Llamazares joined the Department of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Respirology in April 2024. As a Mexican respirologist and public health professional, he is passionate about working towards bridging the gap between clinical and public health interventions so that health can be a human right for all. With a special interest in pleural diseases and smoking cessation, he is devoted to finding new ways to teach medicine and create interdisciplinary connections that simultaneously enhance learning and better care for patients.

Dr. Rodríguez-Llamazares is a medical graduate from the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) in Mexico. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with dual concentrations in Health and Social Behavior, and Public Health Leadership. He completed his residency in Respirology and a fellowship in Sleep Medicine both at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) in Mexico City.

As a respirologist, Dr. Rodríguez-Llamazares coordinated the OR and recovery ward conversion into a COVID-ICU Unit at INER during the pandemic, later to head the non-COVID ICU in that same institution. Following this, he created and opened the Step-Down Unit at INER to provide intermediate critical care to patients with acute respiratory illnesses. While in that role, he created the first publicly funded outpatient Pleural Clinic in the country so that patients with pleural diseases could start receiving ambulatory care in an efficient and cost-effective way. Before coming to Queen’s, he served as Deputy Medical Director of INER where he strived to improve the hospital’s efficiency and expenses through implementing high-value interventions in both ambulatory and hospitalization settings.

He is currently Head of the Pleural Medicine Chapter at the Mexican National Respirology and Thoracic Surgery Society (SMNyCT) for the 2023-2025 tenure.

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