Elixena Lopez Savon
Juan Manuel Marquez Hospital, Cuba
Biography
Elixena López Savón is graduated as a doctor in June 2006, working in primary care in rural areas of her country, in 2008. She graduated as a specialist general practitioner of I degree, and also attended a medical emergency in the same year, after two years, from 2009 to 2011 in Bolivia as intensivist doctor in the town of Villa Tunari, as part of a medical collaboration agreement between her country and the Bolivian government.
Later she received a master’s degree in Emergency and Medical Emergencies and started the specialty of Neurosurgery, surgical branch of which she graduated in 2015, after four years and means of studies, with good teaching and care results at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INN) of Havana.
She started working as a neurosurgeon three years ago in the pediatric hospital "Juan Manuel Márquez" in Havana city where she has been living since 2013, she had certified courses of spinal surgery, carotid doppler, trans fontanel ultrasound, she also had an interventional imaging research course, she is a member of AOSPINE since 2013, and she participated in five congresses of this organization held in Havana.