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Imagen de la Dra. Magdalena de la Higuera Lopez-Frías, especialista en endocrinología y nutrición de la Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

Dr. Magdalena de la Higuera

Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition

Works at: Madrid headquarters
Be part of: Clínica Universidad de Navarra

Professional career

Medical degree and PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Granada (2004), with the dissertation “Importance of the osteoprotegerin–RANK ligand system in postmenopausal osteoporosis”.

Extraordinary Undergraduate Award, First Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and Extraordinary Doctoral Award in Health Sciences.

Specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition at Hospital Universitario Clínico San Cecilio (Granada).

Clinical Collaborator in the Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition; she has worked since 2008 in the Department of this specialty at the clinic’s Madrid campus.

RESEARCH AREAS

Se ha desarrollado básicamente en el área de la diabetes y de la osteoporosis.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Her work has focused primarily on diabetes and osteoporosis.

Activity

In research

Author of several book chapters as well as articles published in national and international journals.

She has presented more than 60 communications at national and international conferences, four of which were awarded by the organizing committees.