Dr. Francisco Sanchez-Guerrero

Dr. Jorge Sanchez-Guerrero was the Rheumatology Division Chief for both Mount Sinai Hospital and UHN from July 2011 to March 2022. Born and raised in Mexico, Dr. Sanchez-Guerrero received his medical degree from the University of Guadalajara and trained in internal medicine and rheumatology at the Instituto Nacional de la Nutrition (National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition). Moving to Boston, he completed a Master of Science Degree from Harvard Medical School, and finished post-doctoral training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard.

Returning to Mexico as a staff internist and rheumatologist at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Dr. Sanchez-Guerrero took over as Head of the Department of Immunology and Rheumatology between 2002 and 2011.

Dr. Sanchez-Guerrero oversees systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome and systemic autoimmune diseases clinics. He is focused on improving our understanding of rheumatic and related disorders.

His main area of research is systemic autoimmune diseases, targeting lupus in particular, measuring its causes and breaking down how to best diagnose and treat the disease. Dr. Sanchez-Guerrero has many accolades including the Edmund L. Dubois Award for lupus research from the American College of Rheumatology in 2001. More than 160 of his articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals.