Qualified, experienced attention is combined with personal care to meet your individual needs. Dr. Gilberto Alvarez is a graduate of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.

His field experience includes working in conjunction with Dr. Ernesto Contreras from 1977-1981, being the Medical Director at Manner Clinic 1982-1992, founder and medical director at Stella Maris since 1993. He participated in the work of Proteolytic Enzyme Therapy in Munich, Germany with Dr. Karl Ronsberger, 1991. Member of the International Clinical Hyperthermia Society (ICHS) in Florence, Italy since 2005. Certified in RIGVIR Therapy, Riga, Latvia, October 2017.

Dr. Alvarez is a highly qualified physician; he passed the US medical boards, which makes him qualified to practice medicine in the United States. As a medical director, he is not a distant figure locked in an office; he is your attending physician. You are under his care everyday of your stay. He answers your calls and personally contacts you before and after your stay. Under the direction of Dr. Gilberto Alvarez, the staff is carefully chosen to help you in your path of recovery: from the nurse to the assisting doctors, all are more than qualified for their work and they are also caring individuals.