Isabel Iturria is a Venezuelan cardiologist and politician. [1] She was Minister of Venezuela.
She graduated from the Central University of Venezuela (with magna cum laude mention ) in 1991. Graduated as a specialist in Internal Medicine in 1995 and in Cardiology in 1998. She has a degree in Cardiology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. She completed a Diploma in Public Health Management, a course in Hospital Administration and Health Services Management (Tokyo) and since 2007 he is a student of the Doctorate in Management Sciences at UNEFA. She was Director of the Hospital Management of the Ministry of Health between 2004 and 2006 and is President of the Fundación Hospital Cardiológico Infantil Latinoamericano Dr. Gilberto Rodríguez Ochoa from its creation in 2006 to the present. [2] [3]
Claudia Isabel Palacios Giraldo is a Colombian journalist and newscaster. She is best known as the weekend news anchor on CNN en Español, a position she held from 2004 through 2012. She is currently both a news anchor on CM& Television in Colombia and a journalist for the Colombian magazine El Pueblo.
Pilar Elena Mazzetti Soler is a Peruvian physician and health administrator who served as Minister of Health from July 2020 to February 2021, excluding her for nine days from office during the brief presidency of Manuel Merino. She previously held the position from February 2004 to July 2006, and was briefly Minister of the Interior from July 2006 to February 2007, being the first woman to reach said position in the Peruvian government.
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Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias is one of Venezuela's most prolific doctor, cardiologist, scientist, writer, teacher, historian, artist and social defender. Born in San Cristobal – Tachira State, he spent most of his life in Maracaibo, Zulia State, Venezuela.
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Aída Teresa Mencía Ripley is an academic from the Dominican Republic. She is currently Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation and UNESCO Chairholder in Intersectional Gender Studies in Education and Psychology at Universidad Iberoamericana of the Dominican Republic (UNIBE).
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José Manuel Olivares is a Venezuelan politician and oncologist. In 2015, he was elected deputy of the National Assembly from Vargas. He is the president of the National Assembly's Health Subcommission, where he has spearheaded the National Health Crisis Provision Law and directed humanitarian aid to counteract the effects of the medicine shortage in Venezuela. He is also the president of the Permanent Commission on Integral Family Development. Olivares has been a major figure in the opposition movement against the government of Nicolás Maduro. In June 2018, Olivares and his family fled to Colombia, where he has helped direct the shipment of humanitarian aid to Venezuela.
María Isabel Rodríguez is a Salvadoran physician, academic, and government official. In 1956, she became one of the first group of four women to enter the Legislative Assembly. From 1999 to 2007, she was the rector of the University of El Salvador. She was appointed El Salvador's Minister of Health in 2009, a position she held until 2014. She is currently the Presidential Advisor on Health and Education.
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