Facultad de Enfermería and Centro de Investigación de Desarrollo en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. Full-time professor.

Maria Aracely Marquez-Vega, is a full-time professor of the School of Nursing of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, is a member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology, and researcher at the Nursing Unit of the Research and Development in Health Sciences Center.