Yepes-Gómez
anesthesiologist director intensivist physician
David Yepes Gómez was born on February 5, 1972, in El Banco, in Colombia's Magdalena Department. He is the son of Esther and Humberto. He later developed his professional career in Medellín, where his clinical, academic, and research activities have centered on anesthesiology, intensive care, epidemiology, and the management of critically ill patients.
Yepes Gómez studied medicine at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, completing his medical training in 1994. He subsequently specialized in anesthesiology at the same university, completing that course of study in 1999. He pursued further intensive-care training at Centro Médico Caracas and later completed critical-care studies at Universidad del Valle. His postgraduate development also included advanced studies in critical care and a master's degree in epidemiology at Universidad CES, completed by 2006. This sequence of training established the combined clinical and research profile that has characterized his work in anesthesia and intensive-care medicine.
Yepes Gómez began his hospital career as an attending physician at Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl in Medellín, working there from 2001 through 2004 and continuing in an attending role from 2005. His professional work subsequently expanded from anesthesiology into intensive-care medicine, clinical epidemiology, and the organization of critical-care services. He served as director of the intensive-care unit at Clínica CES in Medellín and later worked as a critical-care physician and department head at Clínica Victoriana, while also serving as an intensivist at Clínica Las Américas. His clinical and academic activities have included research into critical-care outcomes, transfusion practice, pressure ulcers, respiratory mechanics, infection prevention, acute respiratory distress, and renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients. He has also contributed to medical education and to the development of practical literature for professionals caring for patients in intensive-care settings.
Research in critical care and transfusion investigations
Co-authorship of clinical research on transfusion-management programs, pressure ulcers in critically ill patients, respiratory auscultation and mechanics, COVID-19-related critical illness, and renal replacement therapy in sepsis-associated acute kidney injury.
(Co-authored a retrospective matched-cohort study comparin...)
2026(Co-authored research evaluating postgraduate teaching in ...)
2023(Co-authored a clinical review addressing acute respirator...)
2020(Co-authored a study of the incidence and risk factors for...)
2009(Co-authored clinical research evaluating an anemia-manage...)
2007Yepes Gómez was a member of the Colombian Critical Care Association from 2000 and participated in the professional organization of critical-care medicine in Colombia. He also served as president of the Association of Intensive Care of Antioquia, contributing to professional discussion about the training and role of intensivists and the organization of intensive-care services.
His documented family connections are his mother, Esther, and his father, Humberto. Professionally, he has been associated with Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Universidad del Valle, Universidad CES, Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl, Clínica CES, Clínica Victoriana, and Clínica Las Américas through education, clinical practice, research, and medical leadership.
