Welcome to Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS

This is the website for Ignacio H. Valdes, MD, MS. Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS Dr. Valdes is a Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology who practices General Psychiatry. In addition to his board certification, Dr. Valdes has experience with brain imaging and a twenty year history of working in the healthcare IT arena. He regularly uses telemedicine in his practice and has recruited other physicians to incorporate telemedicine into their practice. Prior to medical school he worked for IBM and Compaq as a software and quality control engineer as well as his own software company. He is the founder of Linux Medical News, and is a national expert on free and open source medical software and interoperability standards. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston’s School of Health Information Sciences. He completed medical school at Southwestern in Dallas (1998), residency training at the University of Texas at Houston Department of Psychiatry (2001). He has a Computer Science degree from Texas A&M (1985) and Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Houston (1991).