Английская Википедия:Adela Cabezas de Allwood

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Adela del Rosario Cabezas de Allwood[1] (born 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.[2] Furthermore, Adela de Allwood has published several books throughout her medical career.

She was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, one of nine children. Her father was a journalist who founded Diario del Pueblo in 1923.[3]

After graduating from UES in 1948,[2] Adela Cabezas traveled to the United States to specialize in pediatrics and nutrition in 1949–1950.[2][4] In the early 1950s, she worked on a project about endemic goiter in Central American schoolchildren, when she was the Chief of Nutrition Service at the National Ministry of Health of El Salvador.[5]

She served as Chief of the Salvadoran Red Cross Medical Services in the late 1980s.[6] She was a member of the Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias (Association of University Women of El Salvador).[3] She was rector of the Francisco Gavidia University in the 1980s.[7][8] She was part of the Ateneo de El Salvador since 1975.[9]

In 1999 she was declared "Doctor of the Year 'Dr. Gustavo Adolfo López'".[10]

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".[11]

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)

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