Journal Club- Quality of Life in Patients with Vestibular Disorders (April 2024)

Join Co-Founder Dr. Helena Esmonde PT, DPT, NCS and special guests Dr. Melissa Castillo Bustamante and Dr. Jorge Madrigal Duval as they discuss issues surrounding quality of life in patients with vestibular disorders and answer viewer-submitted questions.

Dr. Castillo Bustamante is the current Medical Director of the Medellín Vertigo and Dizziness Center in Colombia. She is a specialist in Otorhinolaryngology, a fellow in Otopathology at Harvard University, and has training in Otoneurology in three countries. She is a member of the Barany Society, Colombian Association of Otorhinolaryngology, American Neurotology Society, Ibero-American Foundation of Neurotology, and Schuknecht Society. Dr. Castillo Bustamante is also a researcher and teacher in Colombia, Chile and Paraguay, and co-author of 37 international publications as well as the current research coordinator of the Vertigo and Dizziness Centers of CDMX, Guadalajara and Medellín. 

Dr. Madrigal graduated from Anáhuac University and specialized in otorhinolaryngology at the Spanish Hospital in Mexico and continued his specialization in vestibular rehabilitation at the Center for Dizziness and Balance Disorders at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He is the first Mexican doctor to receive certification by the American Physical Therapy Association in vestibular rehabilitation. He has currently treated more than 6,500 patients in the more than 10 years of experience he has in the area. Dr. Madrigal is an international speaker in a large number of courses related to diseases and treatment of vertigo and dizziness and currently trains residents and specialist doctors from Mexico and Latin America.