Dr Enrique Ruelas has been the Mexican Under Secretary for Innovation and Quality in the Ministry of Health since December 2000. He has a Masters Degree of Health Sciences in Health Administration from the University of Toronto, a Masters in Public Administration MPA at the Center for Economic Research and Education in Mexico and a M.D. at La Salle University in Mexico City. He helped oversee the modernisation of Mexico's health-care system using supply-chain techniques which radically improved service levels while at the same time made significant cost savings.
Prior to his current post he gained widespread entrepreneurial and academic experience and is an expert on health care quality and managing health-care systems. A member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Mexican Academy of Surgery, Dr. Ruelas is also an Associate Professor of Health Administration at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Ruelas was the President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), Director of the Mexican Journal of Quality in Health Care, President of the Mexican Hospital Association, Program Director of Health for Latin America and the Caribbean at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Dean of the National School of Public Health of Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health.
Dr Ruelas has published over 60 articles, holds a number of honorary positions, and has lectured extensively worldwide.