Born in Popayán "in an illustrious family" as Efraím Otero would say at his burial, he became a doctor at the Universidad Nacional, his always beloved university. He was formed as an Intern and later as a Medical Gastroenterologist in France, where he was more French than the Frenchmen. Then he returned to his Alma Mater where he developed a fruitful career as an academic and a researcher, enriching and refreshing Colombian gastroenterology with new endoscopic techniques through the bile duct, although he never left clinical gastroenterology aside.
Nacido en Popayán, "en una preclara familia" como diría Efraim Otero en su sepelio, hecho médico en la Universidad Nacional, Universidad de sus amores eternos, formado como Internista y posteriormente como Gastroenterólogo Clínico en Francia, donde era más francés que los franceses, regresa a su Alma máter donde desarrolla una fructífera carrera académica y como investigador, oxigenando la gastroenterología colombiana con las nuevas técnicas endoscópicas de la vía biliar, pero sin dejar de lado la clínica.