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Luis Clodoaldo Velázquez Pérez was born in 1963 and grew up in a farming town on the outskirts of the city of Holguin in a humble farming family. Physician. Clinical Neurophysiologist and Neurologist. PhD and Dr.Sc. Experienced Researcher, Senior Professor and Post doctorate in CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico. Awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the Prize Georg Foster. President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Member of the IAP International Advisory Group on COVID-19. Prof. Velázquez Pérez is a senior scientist who for 30 years has been dedicated to the research of Hereditary Ataxias focus in community-based epidemiological and social studies and biomarkers of prodromal stages. Most of all, he is the pioneer in understanding the prodromal stages of the disease, which has enabled early clinical intervention. He began to work in this field when he was a medical student. In 1998, he was appointed as Head of the Hereditary Ataxias Project at the University Hospital of Holguin province. His personal efforts kept up the project dynamics under difficult circumstances and which guaranteed the highest possible standard of data collection. He conducted an epidemiological and social study in Holguin province visiting all the communities of families with hereditary ataxias. He developed with the health authorities important actions for the social care of the patients and their families and implemented the rehabilitation programs both in the rural communities and in the hospitals of the province, including pediatric hospitals. He involved family physicians in the development of health care in the communities where families with hereditary ataxias live. In 2000, Prof. Velázquez-Pérez created one of Latin American´s biggest and most active research units and won international renown: the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias (CIRAH). CIRAH provides medical care to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Also, the center marked the beginning of a new stage in the lives of families with hereditary ataxias, with the development of health care programs that offer presymptomatic and prenatal diagnosis, as well as intensive personalized rehabilitation. In 2009, Prof. Velázquez conducted the first national epidemiological study in a whole country. This national survey are unprecedented globally and allowed to know the prevalence and incidence rates of the disease by regions and of the whole country. He has conducted, as the main researcher of 7 clinical trials carried out in patients with Spinocerebellar Ataxias. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany 2014-2016. In 2018, Prof. Velázquez-Pérez was appointed as President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences and founded the National Network of Hereditary Ataxias allowing to extend the rehabilitation program and others important project to the western region of the country. Prof. Velázquez-Pérez has spread his expertise abroad in health care projects, rehabilitation and epidemiological studies in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela. He is the Founding Director of the Pan-American Network of Hereditary Ataxias. He has published more than 250 manuscripts as well as 20 books or book chapters on the ataxias. Main reseracher of several international projects with Aachen, Goethe and Tübingen Universities of Germany, University of Chicago in the United States and with UNAM in Mexico. He is ad hoc reviewer for several international journals. Also, he has contributed to academic formation of 13 PhD students and more than 55 specilaists and trained more than 100 specialists in different branches. He recently created a working and research group with young scientists and students in the central and western region of Cuba extending comprehensive care for affected families and is leading a national clinical trial in patients with ataxias.
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Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena,Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada, Yanetsy Córdova-Rodríguez,Yennis Domínguez-Barrios, Mario E. Fernández-Herrera,Karen León-Arcia, Nancy Pavón-Fuentes,Maria de los Angeles Robinson-Agramonte,Luis Velázquez-Pérez
The Cerebellumpp.1-12, (2024)
The Cerebellumpp.1-9, (2024)
Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena, Yanetsy Rodríguez-Córdova,Yennis Dominguez-Barrios,Karen León-Arcia, David Miranda-Becerra,Yanetza Gonzalez-Zaldivar, Guillermo Guerra-Bustillos,Ulf Ziemann,Georg Auburger,Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada,María de Los Ángeles Robinson-Agramonte,Luis Velázquez-Pérez
Luis Velázquez-Pérez,Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada,Yasmany Gonzalez-Garcés,Nalia Canales-Ochoa,Jacqueline Medrano-Montero,Yennis Domínguez-Barrios,Frank J. Carrillo-Rodes,María B. Ramírez-Bautista, Alberto Caballero-Laguna,Osiel Gámez-Rodríguez, María O. Hernández-Oliver, Yamilca Sosa-Cruz,
Roberto Rodriguez-Labrada,Ricardo Ortega-Sanchez, Patricia Hernández Casaña,Orestes Santos Morales, Maria Del Carmen Padrón-Estupiñan, Maricela Batista-Nuñez,Daise Jiménez Rodríguez,Nalia Canales-Ochoa,Arnoy Peña Acosta,Jacqueline Medrano Montero, Pedro Enrique Labrada Aguilera,Annelie Estupiñán Rodriguez,
Genesno. 1 (2022): 157
Tania Rodriguez-Graña,Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada, Sergio Santana-Porbén,Lorenzo Reynaldo-Cejas,Jacqueline Medrano-Montero,Nalia Canales-Ochoa, Yanelis Silva-Ricardo,Reidenis Torres-Vega,Yanetza González-Zaldivar,Dennis Almaguer-Gotay,Georg Auburger,Luis Velázquez-Pérez
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