Adela Cabezas de Allwood

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Adela Cabezas de Allwood
Born
Adela del Rosario Cabezas

1918 (1918)
Education University of El Salvador (M.D., 1948)
Occupation Physician
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]

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