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Dr. Corral pursued his medical education at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas under a U. T. Southwestern Medical Foundation scholarship. While in medical school, he participated in a medical tour of the People’s Republic of China in August 1978. The program involved research of China’s medical system by 20 U.S medical students along with internationally renowned physician tour leaders. The tour was hosted by the American Medical Student Association at the invitation of the Chinese Medical Society.

Dr. Corral was a general surgical resident and Chief Resident at Maricopa County Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona from 1981 to 1986. He attended and completed his Cardiothoracic Surgery residency at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1988, serving as Chief Resident/Junior Staff Member from 1987 to 1988.

Prior to returning to El Paso, he practiced with Cardiothoracic Surgeons of McAllen-Texas from August 1988 to January 1990. While in McAllen, Dr. Corral was the first heart surgeon to implant an automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator in a patient in South Texas.

From 1994 to 1995, he was selected by Texas Governor Ann Richards to serve as the first physician board member to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Perfusionists. Dr. Corral is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The Yale Surgical Society, Southwest Association of Hispanic American Physicians (SWAHAP), National Hispanic Medical Association, Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Alumni Association and the Stanford Alumni Association. He is past-president of SWAHAP in 2001, and a 2002 Leadership Fellow of the National Hispanic Medical Association.

Currently, Dr. Corral is involved in cardiac and vascular programs in local hospitals and clinics which serve a largely Hispanic patient population. The programs are directed at the treatment and management of cardiac, thoracic and vascular diseases. Through educational presentations as well as periodic free clinical screenings for cardiovascular disease, Dr. Corral hopes to educate and teach the community about the risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of illness and death in the U.S

Early Life & Undergraduate

Dr. Corral was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and raised on a ranch in west Texas. His father passed away when he was 7 years old and the family moved to El Paso, Texas in 1969. He attended El Paso High School and graduated at the top of his class in 1973. He was awarded a full scholarship to attend Stanford University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology in 1977. While at Stanford, he attended summer research programs in 1973 and 1974 at the Cora and Webb Baylor College of Medicine under the direction of renowned heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. At Stanford he was involved in health research programs which included attending “Healthcare Delivery and Public Policy: A Study of Britain’s National Health Service”, in Cliveden, England in 1975 with the Stanford School of Medicine. He also completed research on “Coronary Heart Disease: Whites vs Nonwhites” for the Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program under the direction of Professor Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. During the summer of 1976, he had the opportunity to study Renaissance Art and Literature at the Stanford-in-Florence campus, Florence, Italy.