Life and work of professor José Rafael Estrada González
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Prof. José Rafael Estrada González, Neurology, Neurosurgery, neurosciences, CubaAbstract
Professor José Rafael Estrada González is considered to be the father of Cuban Neurology. His training as a neurologist and neuropathologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the USA, after graduating as a doctor at the University of Havana, together with his renowned intellect, made him a pioneer in the development of Neurology in the country from the beginning of the fifties. At the triumph of the Revolution, the Ministry of Public Health appointed him to organize neurological and neurosurgical services, alongside the few neurosurgery specialists that remained in the country. He founded the Neurology Hospital in January 1962, in the position of director, which from 1966 became the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He distinguished himself as a neurologist, professor, and researcher, and his teachings have extended not only to generations of neurologists and neurosurgeons, but also to the entire community of neuroscientists that he trained. The present paper aimed to describe some aspects of Prof. José Rafael Estrada González path in regard to his personal life, as a doctor, scientist, professor and revolutionary.
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