The Cuban neurologist Néstor M. Pérez Lache, “Insignia Professor and a colossal figure of national medicine,” he died Thursday, as confirmed by the Facebook Logistics of Vanguardia, of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR).
“The medical services of the FAR, the Central Military Hospital Carlos J. Finlay and the Cuban neurology are mourning,” lamented the post, where he values the scope of this scientist’s work as an “era of Cuban neurology.”
Shortly before and from various social networks it had transpired that Pérez Lache died after throwing himself along the Havana bridge located in Santa Catalina and Vento.
“He was not simply a colleague, it was an institution. His name will be forever registered with gold letters in the history of Cuban neurology, thanks to his multiple and innumerable scientific contributions.”
Graduated in Medicine in 1965, Pérez Lache received her title at the Turkish beak, in a symbolic and commitment ceremony, from Fidel Castro Ruz, and immediately joined services, as remembered in an interview published by the newspaper September 5.
This medium points out that it is the “discoverer of the neuropsychological clinical method, following his research of the Cuba-Osss joint spatial flight, a contribution that allowed him to obtain the title of Doctor of Medical Sciences in 1986”.
For 2004, the Doctor of Science and member of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba was awarded. He is a first and second degree specialist in Neurology, Professor and Consultant at the University of the Medical Sciences of Havana and founder of the Teaching Cloister of the Institute of Basic and Precline Sciences Victoria de Girón.
Pérez Lache published seven books, according to the Cienfueguero newspaper; Two of them creditors of the Annual Health Prize.
He was also president of the Permanent Court of Scientific Degree of Medical Clinical Sciences, a member of the Hall of Neurosciences, and honor of the Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery, titular member of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba.
In addition, he was awarded with the orders of the State Council of the Republic of Cuba: Frank Second Degree Country and Carlos J. Finlay.
“More than a teacher, it was a guide and a mentor whose passion for neurology was contagious. His departure leaves an impossible emptiness to fill in our corridors, but his legacy lasts in the indelible footprint of wisdom and humanism that he left in each of his students, colleagues and patients. His lighthouse of knowledge will continue to guide future generations,” said the post of the FAR.
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