Adela Cabezas de Allwood

Adela del Rosario Cabezas de Allwood[1] (born 1918)[2] is a Salvadoran physician, who is considered the second woman to graduate from the doctorate in medicine at the University of El Salvador.

[3] After graduating from UES in 1948,[2] Adela Cabezas traveled to the United States to specialize in paediatrics and nutrition in about 1949.

[2][4] In the early 1950s, she worked on a project concerning goiter which was endemic in Central American schoolchildren.

She was the Chief of Nutrition Service at the National Ministry of Health of El Salvador.

[6] She was a member of the Asociación de Mujeres Universitarias (Association of University Women of El Salvador).