2018, Number 6
Emeritus Professor: Dr. Javier Eduardo Rodríguez Fernández de Castro
Cardosa SM, Milanés HAM, Perojo RMS
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ABSTRACT
Doctor Javier Eduardo Rodríguez Fernández de Castro was born on February 12th, 1917 in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. From a bourgeois origin, he received an educative formation from his parents. At the beginning of the decade of 1930, he went to the College of Medicine of San Carlos of the Central University of Madrid where he studied for two years and graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine. Later on, he travelled to Cuba and began to work in a printing office until he started his medical studies at the University of Havana in the Academic Year 1938-1939. In 1943, he was an outstanding daytime student of “Calixto García” Hospital, and, two years later, he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine. After the official opening of the National Hospital, called afterwards “Enrique Cabrera” Hospital, he started to work at this institution where he offered his medical services for more than 50 years. He died in Havana on December 12th, 2012.REFERENCES