Ms Mery Vidal

Ms Mery Vidal is the regional manager of clinical engineering and medical devices for the AUNA Group in Peru and Colombia, president and founder of the Peruvian Association of Clinical Engineers (ASPIC), and professor in clinical engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She graduated in electronic engineering at the PUCP and is a certified clinical engineer from the US Healthcare Technology Foundation. She also holds a Master of Global Business Administration from Tulane University, USA and Centrum PUCP Business School, Peru.

As one of her major professional accomplishments, Ms Vidal founded the Clinical Engineering Department at AUNA in 2010. Since then, it has grown into a strategic department that actively participates in the decision-making process and has a cutting-edge, management approach that has been applied successfully in two countries (Peru and Colombia). In her current and past roles, she promoted a shift in the clinical engineering paradigm from engineers maintaining medical equipment to technology managers of medical equipment. In recognition of her contributions to the clinical engineering field in Latin America, she received the Antonio Hernandez International Clinical Engineering Award from ACCE in 2021 and was inducted into the AAMI Fellow Class of 2022.