CoralGables-June2018

People
UM’s Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures
hired Dr. Arce in 2008 to
broaden its regional focus,
teaching students about
another Latino community in
South Florida that has consistently
flown under the radar:
the Mesoamericans. Growing
up in Los Angeles, Arce made
frequent visits to her father’s
native Mexican homeland.
That experience contributed
to her doctoral studies
at University of California
Berkeley, and today helps her
build a more relatable Mesoamerican
curriculum around
literature, music, movies, and
art from that heritage.
What I’ve done
with the students
is put Mexico into
a larger context
that they know...
Christine Arce
UM ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH
LATEST ACHIEVEMENT
Recently published the book,
“Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural
Legacy of the Soldadera
and Afro-Mexican Women”
WHAT SHE SAYS
38 thecoralgablesmagazine.com
“There’s a cultural competency
[in Miami] that’s always
mitigated by the Cuban
experience,” says Arce. “Mexico
is part of the greater Caribbean,
so what I’ve done with the
students is put Mexico into a
larger context that they know.”
At the classroom level,
she’ll present her research
by playing Mexican music,
such the 1958 rendition of
“La Bamba” by Richie Valens.
“I’ve developed community
engagement courses that align
Latin American migration with
actual practicum in the field,
where students are translating
for undocumented workers or
people seeking to regularize
their immigration status,” says
Arce, noting that Mexican and
Central American migrants
pick Florida’s produce, clean its
hotels, and clear its tables.
Reported by Julienne Gage
STEM CELLS AND THE BIOLOGICS:
The Fast and the Furious
When Tony drove around a curve during
a training of speed car racing, he realized
that one of the back tires of his car
was taking the wrong direction, but the
powerful engine roared like a wounded lion and the
car ended up crashing against a retaining wall to get
stuck there. Tony felt an acute
pain on a shoulder that lasted
a few seconds. Other than that,
everything seemed to be all
right.
This is the real story of one
of the greatest speed car racers
nowadays, several times champion
at well-known international
races (champion at the
Formula Europa Boxer; at the
Indy Lights Series; at the Indy-
Car Series; winner at the U.S.
500, at the Indianapolis 500, and absolute
champion at the 2015 Daytona
24 Hours, just to mention some of his
achievements.) The shoulder of the Brazilian
racer Kanaan got seriously injured
and recovered its functioning with the
assistance of my PROMETEO procedure
based on stem cells and biologicals.
After consulting the most famous doctors
and orthopedic specialists, most of
them recommended surgery, that is, a
big incision on the shoulder to explore
the causes of the damage. The inconveniences
were the surgery’s risks and almost
a year of estimated recovery time.
Tony decided that there should be an
alternative, and contacted me through
Sergino, a common friend who
had successfully gone through
the PROMETEO procedure.
Dr. Ramon Castellanos, MD (left)
and race car driver, Tony Kanaan
Ramon Castellanos, MD
StemCell USA Founder and Medical Director
Regenerative Medicine/Stem Cell, Pain, PM&R Board Certified. Sport Medicine
Assistant Professor Neurosurgical Science at FIU School of Medicine
Stem Cell USA
7000 SW 62 Avenue, PH-S • Miami FL 33143 • 305 250-CELL (2355)
www.stemcellusa.net
If you are interested in being evaluated at StemCell USA by Dr. Castellanos and his team to undergo the PROMETEO procedure,
please call 305-250-CELL (2355). The evaluation of your MRI is free. Latin America or outside Miami please write to contact@stemcellusa.net
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After assessing the injury through my T3 MRI, I concluded
that through an implant of his own stem cells
and biologicals, he could have the broken fibers of his
shoulder regenerated.
Six weeks later, Tony was back at the speedway, to
the surprise of his team, the rest of the racers and
even myself. His pain had gone
one hundred percent and his
abilities at the wheel were completely
back to normal.
However, at my institute, Stem-
Cell USA, you will not only find
famous sports people and musicians
but a variety of persons of
multiple background, sex, and
age. The PROMETEO procedure
is successful as opposed to surgery,
therapy and medications
because it modifies the illness
and, as in this case, it regenerates
the damaged tendon.
Should you feel in doubt – since this
procedure with stem cells and biologicals
are rather new and controversial–
just think that someone as famous as
Kanaan would not have risked his career
if this procedure would not work and
would not be significantly safe.
The procedure has many variants, some
of them partially covered by medical insurance
companies, others available to
different sectors of the population, and
specially to Latin American patients because
it is a one-time procedure, and
the patient may travel back to his country
a day after it is performed, but all
variants have something in common:
The success is absolute!