Died: May 7, 2023
Senior Lecturer-Consultant Professor. He graduated as a physician in 1964 and as a first-degree specialist in Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1970. He was educational vice-director of the North and South Maternity Hospitals of Santiago de Cuba, where he completed his postgraduate medical service as a specialist.
Second chief of the activity of the Maternal and Child Health Branch Program (PAMI) in comprehensive care for pregnant women with diabetes. Chief of the central service of diabetes and pregnancy. "Ramón González Coro" Hospital. Member of the Commission of Scientific Degrees of the I.S.C.M of La Habana. Expert of the Maternal and Child Health Branch Program. President of the Scientific Council of "Ramón González Coro" Hospital and Member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty "Comandante Manuel Fajardo".
Member of the National Advisory Commission for Biomedical Research "Maternal and Child Health" and of the Municipal Group of A.N.I.R.
Member of the Group of Arbiters of Cuban Medical Journals. Member of the Editorial Board of the Cuban Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Member of the Provincial and National Commissions of diabetes mellitus. Member of the National Commission in research on diabetes mellitus. Member of the Hospital Evaluation Commission. Member of the Provincial Group of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Member of the State Commission for the training of care for diabetic patients.
Participant in the oversight and assistance to "Raúl Díaz Argüelles" University in Guinea Bissau. Member of the Commission for the development of the postgraduate studies program in the Republic of South Yemen and responsible for the first graduation of the first five specialists in that country and the initiation of training for seven others. Senior Lecturer at Transkei University, Republic of South Africa.
Chief of the services of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received recognition from the provincial PCC for achievements in health during the special period, in 1991. Exemplary Worker, in 1991. Outstanding municipal innovator, in 1992. Award at the VIII Forum of Science and Technology, in 1993, Gold talent 3 stars of A.N.I.R., in 1994. He was awarded the distinction "Manuel Fajardo Rivero", in 1987. Master of Latin American Obstetrics and Gynecology by FLASOG, in 2005. Annual vanguard of the higher education contingent in the internationalist mission in Ethiopia, in 1985. Municipal and provincial vanguard of the Health Workers' Union, in 1988. Best A.N.I.R. worker of the municipality in 1990. He was awarded the "José Tey" Medal, granted by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba, in 1990.
Recognition as the main result at the level of ISCM of La Habana and possible scientific-technical achievement in 1990. Best worker at the provincial level of the Health Workers' Union and invited for this reason to speak at the Tribune of the "José Martí" Revolution Square on May 1st, 1990. National vanguard of work during the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
He received recognition from the Rector of ISCM of La Habana for the updating of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Protocols in 2007. Meritorious Professor in Dominican Republic in 1993. He held the Order "Frank País" of First Grade, among other recognitions. He devoted his life to Science and his specialty almost until his last breath.
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