About
In 1947, the Venezuelan Society of Gastroenterology, Endocrinology and Nutrition (GEN) was founded at the initiative of Dr. Joel Valencia Parpacén. The eminent endocrinologist Dr. Miguel Ruiz Guía was its first President.
On 10 July, 1957, a group of endocrinologists separated from GEN and founded The Venezuelan Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SVEM), chaired by Dr. Miguel Ruiz Guía, together with Drs. Enrique Pimentel, Marcel Roche, Francisco De Venanzi and Eduardo Coll García, all of whom were teachers of generations of endocrinologists in the country. To mark this event, 10 July was subsequently declared the Day of the Venezuelan Endocrinologist.
Main Focus
SVEM has the following objectives:
- Promote good relations and scientific and cultural exchange among its members and also with other national and foreign scientific entities.
- Maintain professional ethics among its members, promote effectiveness in endocrinological practice and abide by the provisions of the Statutes and Regulations of SVEM, the College of Physicians, the Venezuelan Medical Federation, the Code of Medical Deontology and current Medical Practice Law.
- Ensure high-level teaching and practice of endocrinology and promote research related to the specialty.
- Ensure and defend the Statutory rights of its members, through competent organizations.
Activities
- Monthly interhospital meetings, where a clinical case is discussed among all hospitals that host a postgraduate endocrinology course.
- Weekly virtual meetings on Instagram on topics such as metabolic diseases, diabetes, obesity and endocrinopathies.
- Annual congress in Caracas with national and international participants.
Publications & Newsletters
Quarterly magazine “Venezuelan Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism.”