Professor José Federico Vilchis was born in Mexico City. He is a Medical Surgeon from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Doctor of Biological and Health Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM). He has obtained the incentive for Teaching and Research, the Faculty Enrichment Award Program Scholarship from the Government of Canada, 1991, Acupuncture and Meridian Studies Award; Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute, 2008.

Within his discipline, is the use of complementary medicine in the treatment of chronic and degenerative diseases. He is specialized in the study of acupuncture mechanisms, especially the cardiovascular changes produced by the stimulation of acupuncture points. His most important contributions are the kinetic description, Gaussian deconvolution, and the second derivative of the photoplethysmogram of the acute variations in cardiac and arterial vascular function produced by acupuncture.

He has worked at the Medical Postgraduate Foundation: Specialization in Acupuncture and Phytotherapy and the Acupuncture Clinic at the Iztapalapa Campus of the UAM. He has coordinated projects in cardiovascular pathophysiology in the Laboratory of Acupuncture and Phytotherapy and directed research projects for the appropriate communications of results of the medical postgraduate degree: Specialization in Acupuncture and Phytotherapy.

He has participated in the divisional and academic councils in the Division of Biological and Health Sciences of the Xochimilco Campus of the UAM. Divisional Councilor for the Division of Biological and Health Sciences of the Iztapalapa Campus of the UAM.