Avila-Cobo, Micaela del Rosario

Medical doctor trained in ITESM School of Medicine. Neurologist graduated from the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Chief Resident at this institution. Subspecialty in Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain. Intensive rotation in Clinical Neurophysiology at the Salvador Zubirán National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition and at the Médica Sur Hospital. Private practice at Hospital Ángeles Chihuahua since May 2001, where I also managed the clinical neurophysiology department from that same date to the present. I have completed an intensive sleep course in 2002 with the Mexican Society for Sleep Research and Medicine AC endorsed by the UAM and in 2007 two master's degrees: one in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and the other in Sleep: Physiology and Medicine, endorsed by the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain. I have collaborated with a chapter on Parkinson's Disease in two books published in Mexico and participated in a clinical study on Unclassifiable Parkinsonism carried out in London and Barcelona, published in the journal Movement Disorders. Since 2003 I have been the medical director of the Enlace Duchenne Becker AC Muscular Dystrophy Association where I do the initial assessment of patients with neuromuscular diseases and together with the Enlace team we offer clinical and genetic diagnosis, treatment and general care to people with Duchenne and Bécker disease at the local, state, national level and sometimes to foreigners; with the Clinical Research Unit of Hospital Ángeles Chihuahua we have hosted an international clinical study for genetic modification therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and we are about to start another. I have been certified by the Mexican Council of Neurology since 1999 and I have been a member of the Mexican Academy of Neurology since 2004. I have been president of the Neurological Society of Chihuahua. At the Mexican Academy of Neurology (AMN) I was national coordinator of the Parkinson and Movement Disorders Study Group. I have been a speaker at the local and national level at AMN congresses. I have great interest in teaching and I have been a professor of Neurology at Tec Salud at the Hospital Ángeles Chihuahua since 2012, where I am also in charge of coordinating the students who come to the different rotations offered at this location. I was a professor of neuroanatomy at the University of Durango and a guest professor to teach neurology topics to residents of various hospitals in the health sector in the city. I currently belong to the Teaching Department of the Hospital Ángeles Chihuahua. I want to continue teaching neurology to doctors in training and hope to inspire them to be excellent doctors and, above all, good people.