ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES OPEN ACCESS (ISSN:2631-374X)

Biography:

Maria-Raquel Huerta-Franco who completed Ph.D. in Medical Sciences is a full-time Professor at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. She is the head of the Occupational and Environmental Health and Hygiene Laboratory since 2010. She is an active member of the National System of Research from the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology. She did her bachelor in Medicine, Master and Ph.D. in Medical Sciences and did specialization in Psycho-Endocrinology. She received Alfonso Rivera Prize 1996, as a young outstanding researcher and awarded by the Mexican Society of Nutrition and Endocrinology. She is the president of the Academy of Research in Biology of Reproduction, 1999-2000. She also did her post-doctorate in reproductive endocrinology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1998-1999). She is a visiting professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, 2006-2007. She received recognition by the Secretary of Health of the State of Guanajuato, Mexico, as a distinguished research professor in 2008. Recently she has been a visiting professor at the Biomedical and Health Informatics Department at the School of Medicine, University of Missouri in Kansas City (2016-2017). She had collaborated with the Academic Group of Medical Physics and Biomedical Instrumentation at the Division of Sciences and Engineering, of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, since 2002.

Research Interests:

Her research interest mainly focuses on Obesity, Stress, affective states in female patients, climacteric.