Rodrigo Simán is a pediatrician, Founder and Director of Hogares Providencia a heaven for children of the streets, and consultant for Cicatelli Associated Inc. For nine years he was Head of El Salvador AIDS program of the Secretary of Health, ambassador and member of board of directors of ONUSIDA −the United Nations program for AIDS. From 2006 to 2009 he was the children and youth advisor to the First Lady Mrs. Saca.

Siman founded the clinic for children with immunodeficiency for the Children’s Hospital of El Salvador, which was later christened under his name. Siman was awarded the Dr. Luis Edmundo Vázquez National Award of Medicine in 2002, and named Outstanding Salvadorian Physician by the Congress of El Salvador in 2009, being voted unanimously by all congressmen. Siman was born in El Salvador, studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciencias Médicas in Costa Rica and at Universidad Nacional de Chile.