1. Santiago Medina was born on in 1964 and is a Colombian-American sculptor.
11 Facts About Santiago Medina
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Santiago Medina's works are in galleries and private collections throughout the world, and have been shown at major international exhibitions including Art Basel Week Red Dot Fair in Miami, Palm Beach International Art Fair, Arte America, Miami International Art Fair, Sincronia Feria de Arte, and the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables.
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Santiago Medina was born and raised in Medellin, Colombia, to a family of artists and physicians.
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Santiago Medina's great-grandfather Emiliano Mejia was a pioneer photographer and painter in Colombia in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Santiago Medina's grandfather, Rafael Mejia Uribe, was a painter and prominent pediatrician in Colombia.
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Santiago Medina was the first director of Clinica Noel in the 1920s, a pediatric charity hospital in Medellin.
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Santiago Medina decided to specialize in Radiology because of its artistic 3D visual appeal and ground-breaking technology.
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Santiago Medina did his Diagnostic Radiology residency at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St Louis, US.
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Santiago Medina then subspecialized in Neuroradiology and Pediatric Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital a Harvard School of Medicine affiliated Hospital.
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Santiago Medina then went ahead to become a leader in Evidence-based medicine in medical Imaging.
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Santiago Medina has co-authored more than 50 peer review articles in major international medical journals including Pediatrics, Radiology, Neurology, American Journal of Neuroradiology and Pediatric Radiology.