Adela Cabezas de Allwood
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1918
Adela Cabezas de Allwood | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adela del Rosario Cabezas 1918 |
| Education | University of El Salvador (M.D., 1948) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Spouse | Juan 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]
