Ian Donald School Book 09.indb - World Association of Perinatal ...

Chapter 4. WORLD IAN DONALD SCHOOL BRANCHES Argentinafetal therapy. She has been author or coauthorin over 40 books and scientificpublications, and over 280 scientific papersand articles. She has attended trainingcourses in Argentina and abroad.She has lectured extensively at both localand international meetings and has organizedinnumerable national and internationalcongresses: ISUOG (1999); WAMP(1999), the XXI st Fetus as a Patient Congressheld in Buenos Aires in April 2005.In 1989 professor VOTO was fellow andco-investigator at the Department of Obstetricsand Gynecology, Queen’s MedicalCentre, University of Notting ham, England.From 1992 to 1993 she was coordinatorin Argentina of the collaborativeproject «Collaborative Low-Dose AspirinStudy in Pregnancy for the Preventionand Treatment of Pre-eclampsia and IntrauterineGrowth Retardation» (CLASP),organized in Oxford, England, by a Committeeincluding Drs. C. REDMAN, M. DESWIET, P. RUBIN, E. M. SYMONDS and M. EL-DER. From 1993 to 1995 she was Directorof the Argentina-England collaborativeproject «Prevention and promotion ofmaternal and perinatal health in criticallyimpoverished populations», carried outby Miguel Margulies Foundation for PerinatalResearch, the British Council andthe British Embassy in Argentina. In 1995she became a Clinical Investigator for theNational Council for Research in Scienceand Technology (CONICET).Professor VOTO was the Director of JuanA. Fernández Hospital, Buenos Aires City,Argentina, the reference centre for highrisk pregnancy and fetal medicine. She isalso the President of Miguel MarguliesFoundation for Perinatal Studies, and isthe Head of the Institute of Fetal Medicineand High-Risk Pregnancy (named afterher) in Buenos Aires city. In additionto these positions, she is an active memberof both national and internationalscientific societies.Apart from the numerous awards professorVOTO has received for her invaluablescientific work, she has been presentedwith two special awards for her outstandingperformance as Director of Juan A.Fernández Hospital: Award of the ArgentineSociety of Occupational Medicine toher work as Director of Juan A. FernándezHospital during the deep socio-economiccrisis, November 27, 2002, and«Quality Management in Health», grantedby the Secretariat of Health, Governmentof the City of Buenos Aires, November 19, 2003 and the «Rosa de PlataAward» granted for the Argentine NationalParliament for her actived work inmaternal and fetal health (2007).Recently, she became an Associate Memberof the International Academy of PerinatalMedicine (President: ProfessorERICH SALING) at Cornell University, NewYork (2008).56