Adela Cabezas de Allwood

Adela Cabezas de Allwood
Born
Adela del Rosario Cabezas

1918 (1918)
Santa Ana, El Salvador
EducationUniversity of El Salvador (M.D., 1948)
OccupationPhysician
SpouseJuan Allwood

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 and she was 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 paediatrics and nutrition in about 1949.[2][4] In the early 1950s, she worked on a project concerning goiter which was endemic in Central American schoolchildren. 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]

  1. ^ Ferrufino, Mayuly (November 4, 2000). "Una vida de lucha y éxito" [A life of struggle and success]. El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Arteaga, Ernesto (February 11, 2019). "Ocho salvadoreñas que han brillado en carreras científicas" [Eight Salvadorans who have shone in scientific careers]. La Prensa Gráfica (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Quienes Somos – AMUS" [Who we are | Association of University Women of El Salvador]. Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias (in Spanish). Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Division. United States Department of State International Press and Publications. Air Bulletin. 1949.
  5. ^ Clearinghouse for Research in Child Life (U.S.) (1954). Research Relating to Children: an inventory of studies in progress. Social Security Administration. Children's Bureau. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 90.
  6. ^ "Historia del Centro de Sangre" [History of the Blood Center | Salvadoran Red Cross]. Cruz Roja Salvadoreña (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  7. ^ Chacón, Godofredo Calderón (1986). Monografía de la República de El Salvador [Monograph of the Republic of El Salvador] (in Spanish). Impresos Prisma.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Ateneo: revista del Ateneo de El Salvador (in Spanish). El Ateneo. 1974.
  10. ^ "Revista Mundo Médico Salvadoreño". Issuu. June 2015. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  11. ^ "Decretos Emitidos en 2007". Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020.