Ana Guillermina Navarro Lautén

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Ana Navarro was the first Cuban woman to graduate in the specialty of Pediatric Endocrinology, and after her graduation she moved to Santiago de Cuba where she developed this specialty as a physician and also as a teacher.

Her training at the Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases was under the mentorship of the eminent professor Ricardo Güell González.

Teaching Category: Associate Professor and Consultant
Specialty: Endocrinology
Specialty Degree: 2nd degree
Hospital Center: North Pediatric Teaching Hospital. Santiago de Cuba.
Date of graduation as Physician. 1963
Date of graduation as 1st degree specialist. 1970
Date of graduation as 2nd degree specialist. 1984
Assistant Professor. 1977
Associate Professor. 1984

Supervised and advised theses. 21
Supervised works for students and interns presented in student forums and evaluated as excellent. 44
Of the supervised and advised TTE, interviews published nationally and on the Internet total. 12
In addition to multiple publications in collaboration (Prof. Dr. Marino Pérez Paz now deceased, Prof. Lemay Valdés Amador). Total. 10

Published books. 3 3rd edition of the book Topics of Internal Medicine by Prof. Dr. Roca Goderich (Chapter on Endocrinology). 1977
Synopsis of the book Diabetes Mellitus by Prof. Oscar Mateo de Acosta. 1971 CED Science and Technique.
Self-help book on diabetes mellitus as sole author. 1999 (Oriente Editorial), directed toward the education of diabetics and their families.

Research presented and evaluated as relevant with incentive (Diploma and Gifts).

National and International Encounters (C. Habana), total. 23
Endocrinology Events years 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006.

National and international Ibero-American congresses, ADOLECA and national congresses of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, Neurology and Ibero-American Congress of Endocrinology, with a sample of some works presented at those events:
1. Goiter and pregnancy
2. Clinical diabetes and pregnancy
3. Subclinical diabetes and pregnancy
4. Malformations in the child of a diabetic mother (Cuban Journal of Pediatrics and in Soviet publications)
5. Short Stature Syndrome (3 Publications as monograph)
6. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus in Cuba: Study of 112 patients (Published Cuban Journal of Pediatrics 1971).
7. Diabetic Ketoacidosis in children: study of 41 patients published in Cuban Journal of Pediatrics 1968.
8. Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (1 publication Cuban Journal of Pediatrics 1969).
9. Bone Lesions in generalized congenital lipodystrophy (Lancet Journal 1971).
10. Vacation camps for diabetic children: Results of 4 years of work (Cuban Journal of Pediatrics 1975).
11. The same work but with 9 years of experience: ISCM Bulletin 1979 and previously presented at the joint event Santiago de Cuba and Guadalajara.
12. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus and pregnancy. Cuban Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1975.
13. Childhood obesity: Clinical-epidemiological and therapeutic study. ISCM Bulletin.
14. Clinical-epidemiological characteristics of the diabetic patient in children under 15 years of age. Santiago de Cuba.
15. Results of the TSH program in Santiago de Cuba Province.
16. Limitation of joint mobility in diabetic children and adolescents.
17. Clinical-therapeutic approach to goiter in pediatric patients.
18. 33 years of vacation camps for diabetic children and adolescents.
19. Hyperthyroidism in adolescence: 10 years of experience.
20. Immunological and humoral findings in diabetic patients with limitation of joint mobility.
21. Going through diabetes. It constituted a contribution in the field of diabetological education at the last pediatric endocrinology congress.
22. Neurocognitive evaluation in patients with Congenital Hypothyroidism from Santiago de Cuba.
23. Changes in the Pedography of Type I diabetics. Five-year study.
24. Social environment in diabetic children and adolescents.
25. Diabetes and hyperthyroidism in preschool age. Case presentation.
26. Nessidioblastosis: Clinical case and medical-surgical treatment.

Decorations:
1. Piti Fajardo Medal (1987)
2. Distinction for Cuban Education (1990)
3. Pepito Tey Medal (1995)
4. Plaque 40th Anniversary of the Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. 2002
5. Science and Conscience Medal. University of Oriente. 2005
6. Professor of Merit February 8, 2007.
7. Medal 45th Anniversary since September 2007.

ADDENDUM
Courses taught: 64
Courses attended: 58
Training in the former East Germany for 6 months (1981 to 1982)
Guest of Honor at the Ibero-American Congress of Endocrinology held at the Academy of Sciences of Havana City (Capitol). 2006

Ana Navarro retired after more than 40 years of professional practice.