Fernando Montes-Tapia, MD, Ph.D, is a pediatric surgeon and professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in the Faculty of Medicine in Monterrey, Mexico. He is also assigned to the Department of Pediatrics at the "Dr. José Eleuterio González" University Hospital. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and is a researcher with the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology (Conahcyt). His research focuses on ultrasound-guided vascular accesses in neonatal and pediatric patients, for which he has won national research awards.