Epidemiology
Ricardo Gutierrez Children's Hospital, Argentina
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Dr. Julia Bakir is a pediatrician at the Epidemiology Department of the Ricardo Gutierrez Children's Hospital, Argentina. She is a member of the Epidemiology Subcommittee of the Argentine Society of Pediatrics.
She graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a physician with a Diploma of Honor.
She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital, and then was a resident instructor.
She is a Pediatrician certified by the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
She has a diploma in Public Health from the Mexican Society of Public Health.
She currently works as a staff physician in the Epidemiology Department of the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital and at the Medicus Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She teaches at: the Epidemiology Chair of the Faculty of Medicine of the Austral University; the Clinical Epidemiology Chair of the Medical Specialist in Infectology Course, University of Buenos Aires, Academic Unit "Hospital Muñiz" and the Latin American Online Course "Update on Immunizations" of the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital.
She is the author of numerous works published in national and international journals as well as book chapters on topics focused on infectious diseases and vaccines.
She has also received various awards for her scientific work, the latest of which was the National Academy of Medicine Award in 2019 for the work “Clinical-epidemiological impact of respiratory viruses in children admitted to a pediatric hospital”.