Cuba Honoris Causa conferred to former Minister of Health of El Salvador

Maria Isabel Rodriguez, who was rector of the University of El Salvador and Minister of Health of this country, received special teaching rank of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana.
By giving recognition, Jorge González Pérez, president of the house of higher learning, said the winner not only reached achievements in scientific terms but also in the social approach that always had in his mind.
He said that was integrated from the beginning to the struggles of the student movement, of which he was leader of the General Association of Salvadoran College Students.

Maria Isabel Rodriguez completed his medical studies in 1948, he worked in Mexico and the United States, where he shared with leading figures in the field of cardiology and physiological science, but always returned to his native country, says a report sent to Prensa Latina by medical University of Havana.

It is a recognized consultant PAHO / WHO with more than one hundred publications in Spanish and English on science, health and education in El Salvador, he is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of university transformations in that country and outside its borders with impact across the continent.

Make the text Dr Rodríguez, from the post of health minister, fought to their vocation in the social reality, developing the first comprehensive health care reform for El Salvador, which even today is part of the reality of government democratic left took power.

The expert received the award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development and positive transformation of university management in the region of the Americas.

He has also received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005, Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Cañas, El Salvador, 2006, University of Córdoba, Argentina, 2007, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, 2008, University San Carlos de Borromeo, Guatemala, 2008.

University of El Salvador, El Salvador, 2009, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, 2011, Universidad Andrés Bello, El Salvador, 2012, University of the Republic, Uruguay 2012.

María Isabel Rodríguez, participates in the II International Conference on Medical Education for the XXI Century, in session until Friday at the Palace of Conventions in Havana.