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Adela Cabezas de Allwood
Born1918 (age 105–106)
Santa Ana, El Salvador
EducationUniversity of El Salvador
OccupationPhysician

Adela del Rosario Cabezas de Allwood[1] (Santa Ana, 1918)[2] is a Salvadoran physician, who is considered the second woman to graduate from the doctorate in medicine at the University of El Salvador. Furthermore, Adela de Allwood has published several books throughout her medical career.

After graduating from UES, Adela Cabezas traveled to the United States to specialize in pediatrics and nutrition.[2][3]

She served as Chief of the Salvadoran Red Cross Medical Services in the late 1980s.[4] She was a member of the Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias (Association of University Women of El Salvador).[5] She was rector of the Francisco Gavidia University in the 1980s.[6][7] She was part of the Ateneo de El Salvador since 1975.[8]

In 1999 she was declared "Doctor of the Year 'Dr. Gustavo Adolfo López'".[9]

In 2007 the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador declared her "Distinguished Physician of El Salvador" for "her outstanding professional career in the field of medicine".[10]

Books

  • From disaster relief to development: the experience of the El Salvador Red Cross / Del socorro en el desastre al desarrollo (Genève, Instituto Henry-Dunant, 1987)
  • Cuentos y más cuentos (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte, 199?)
  • Mujer médico siglo XX (Editorial Arte y Letras, 2000)
  • Va la vida (Ingenio El Ángel, 2012)

Reference

  1. ^ Ferrufino, Mayuly (November 4, 2000). "Una vida de lucha y éxito". El Diario de Hoy. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Arteaga, Ernesto (February 11, 2019). "Ocho salvadoreñas que han brillado en carreras científicas". La Prensa Gráfica (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ^ Division. United States Department of State International Press and Publications. Air Bulletin. 1949.
  4. ^ "Historia del Centro de Sangre – Cruz Roja Salvadoreña". Cruz Roja Salvadoreña (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; October 23, 2019 suggested (help)
  5. ^ "Quienes Somos – AMUS". Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias (in Spanish). Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  6. ^ Chacón, Godofredo Calderón (1986). Monografía de la República de El Salvador (in Spanish). Impresos Prisma.
  7. ^ United States Congress House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs (1982). Presidential Certification on El Salvador: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  8. ^ Ateneo: revista del Ateneo de El Salvador (in Spanish). El Ateneo. 1974.
  9. ^ "Revista Mundo Médico Salvadoreño Junio-Julio". Issuu. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "Decretos Emitidos en 2007". Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador.
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