Hacienda Publishing, a Georgia Corporation, was founded in 1994 for the publication of health care books and medical journals. Hacienda Publishing has now gone strictly online and runs this website, www.haciendapublishing.com.

Over 95% of our articles were published in peer-reviewed medical journals and other established publications, and the site is the repository of published articles by Dr. Miguel Faria, a medical scientist and medical historian, as well as other scholars knowledgeable in medical science and history.

Previously published articles can be found in the Articles section as well as the Medical Sentinel section of this website.

About our President:

Dr. Miguel Faria is a Board Certified Neurological Surgeon by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery, ret.) and Adjunct Professor of Medical History (ret.) Mercer University School of Medicine.

Medical Journalism: Member, Editorial Board of Surgical Neurology International (SNI; 2011-present). World Affairs Editor, Surgical Neurology International (2012-present).

Ex-member, Editorial Board of Surgical Neurology, an International Journal of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience, the Official International Journal of the Neurosurgical Societies of Belgium, Brazil, China, Romania, Russia and Taiwan (Published by Elsevier) 2004-2010.

Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Sentinel (1996-2002), Founding editor and Editor Emeritus, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). These include periodicals published from 1996-2002: Medical Sentinel, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).

Science and Medicine: Ex-member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2002-2005.
 
Former Contributor to Newsmax.com and Columnist LaNuevaCuba.com; Guest Columnist GOPUSA.com (2010-present).

History: Recipient of the Americanism Medal from the Nathaniel Macon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) 1998.

Author: Vandals at the Gates of Medicine — Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995); Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (1997); and Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002).

Publisher: The Medical Sentinel of the AAPS and such books as Sutton's Law by Jane M. Orient, M.D. and Linda J. Wright (1997).

Dr. Faria has continued to write, edit and publish various articles on science, politics, history, and socio-economic topics in numerous journals and websites including Surgical Neurology International, NewsMax.com, and GOPUSA.com.