Hospital Pediátrico Universitario “Juan Manuel Márquez’’. La Habana, Cuba.
MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH OF CUBA. UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES OF HAVANA. FINLAY ALBARRÁN FACULTY.
Names and Surnames: Bernarda Berta Lidia Castro Pacheco.
Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Medical Doctor (1970).
I Degree Specialist in Pediatrics (1978) and II Degree Specialist in Pediatrics (1998).
II Degree Specialist in Pediatric Intensive Medicine. (2002)
Professional experience: 51 years
Academic training in intensive care at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Ciudad Sanitaria de la Paz, Madrid, Spain. 1985,2000, 2003.
Leading Professor of the National Diploma for Pediatric Intensive Care. (1997).
Academic team for the National Child Care Diploma. (2002 and 2005).
Master of Science in Comprehensive Child Care. (2007)
Assistant professor. (1989).Associate Professor. (2002).
Research category: AssociateResearcher. (2011).
Consulting Professor at the University of Medical Sciences of the Havana (2012).
National Advisory Groups and Societies:
Head of the National Group of Pediatrics. 2004-2019.
Member of the Governing Board of the Cuban Pediatrics Society, 2002-2018.
President of the Cuban Pediatrics Society. Since 2018.
Member of the Advisory Committee of the Rector for the specialties of Pediatrics and Pediatric Intensive and Emergency Medicine.
Member of the Maternal and Child Health Management Group of the National School of Public Health of Cuba (ENSAP).
Member of the National Commission of Experts of the National Drug Formulary. Member of the Group of Experts of the National Vaccine Program.
International Societies:
Secretary of the Latin American Federation of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, FELANPE, 2002-2003.
Full Member of the International Academy for Infection Management. (AIM).
Full Member of the Spanish Association of Adolescent Medicine, SEMA.
Member of the International Pediatric Association, IPA.
Member of the Latin American Pediatric Association. ALAPE.
Member of the International Committee of Experts for the Documentation and Verification of the Elimination of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) in the Americas. PAHO-Ministry of Public Health.
Member of the Technical Advisory Council of the Latin American Center for Pre-school Education. MINED, Cuba.
Member of the International Committee of Experts for the Documentation of the application of the Polio Vaccine (IPV in Cuba), 2017. PAHO-Ministry of Public Health.
Courses Taught: 83. Received: 52. Publications: 43.
Main lines of research:
Cuban experience in child-care. WHO-PAHO- MINSAP.
Protection of the Rights of the Child in Cuba.
Elimination of vaccine preventable diseases in Cuba.
Surveillance System for the Syndrome of Systemic Inflammatory Response in Pediatric Therapy.
Evaluation of the Home Ventilation Protocol in Cuba.
Characterization of Covid 19 in Cuban children.