Today the Liceo Theater in Salamanca hosted the gala presentation of the 3rd edition of the CyLTV Diagnosis Awards, the awards for health and healthcare professionals in Castilla y León. The ceremony, presented by the director and presenter of the network program ‘Diagnosis’, Sara Ayuso, will be broadcast on Sunday, February 8 at 11 p.m. on La 7.
During his speech, the general director of RTVCyL, Jorge Losada, stressed that “each person and each recognized project represents the excellence, innovation and humanity that define the healthcare of Castilla y León” and that “the Diagnosis Awards put a name and face to the silent effort of professionals and institutions that work every day to improve the quality of life of citizens.”
In this sense, Losada indicated that “making Castilla y León today a benchmark in the biohealth and pharmaceutical field” is “thanks to the combination of high-level biomedical research, a public health system closely integrated with the university, a powerful primary, hospital and emergency care network and a growing pharmaceutical and biotechnological industrial fabric.” He also referred to patient associations “that provide so much support and that are so essential in some of the most difficult moments of our lives.”
CyLTV recognizes health professionals with its Awards – Photo: Miriam Chacón ICAL
The winners
The Diagnostic Award for Best Medical Initiative went to ‘Home Sweet Home’: comprehensive, humanized and innovative home hospitalization from the Health Care Management of El Bierzo; the Diagnostic Award for the Best Nursing Initiative, for the Nursing Model of Rural Mental Health Care in the Province of Zamora; the Diagnostic Award for the Best Initiative of Patient Associations, for the Association Against Leukemia and Blood Diseases, at the service of patients and their caregivers; the Diagnostic Award for the Best Pharmaceutical Initiative, for the Guide of Excellence for the Conduct of Clinical Trials in the Hospital Pharmacy of Farmaindustria, the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy and the General Council of Pharmaceutical Colleges, and the Diagnostic Award for Innovation, for the Robotic Surgery Network of Castilla y León.
Likewise, the Diagnostic Award for the Best Humanization Initiative was for the Adaptation of the healthcare environment to visual impairment in the Zamora Care Complex; the Diagnostic Research Award, for the EMBOENDO Project -prediction of embolisms in patients with infective endocarditis through echocardiography analysis with artificial intelligence, from the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid-; the Diagnostic Award in Public Health, for the Digitalization of food safety as an essential pillar of public health in Castilla y León; the Diagnostic Award for the One Health Approach Initiative for the GSK cryogenization plant in Aranda de Duero (Burgos) and for Prevention, surveillance and control of diseases transmitted by arthropod vectors in Castilla y León; the Diagnosis Award for the Best Mental Health Initiative, for Emocionante: a pioneering mental health program through illusionism for first-year ESO students; the Diagnostic Award for Health Management, for SACYL Excellent, and the Diagnostic Award for the Best Private Health Initiative, for Chat de la Esperanza of the International Association of the Telephone of Hope.
CyLTV recognizes health professionals with its Awards – Photo: Miriam Chacón ICAL
At the event, the Special Award, designated by CyLTV, was also presented to Alicia Armentia in recognition of her career of more than 40 years. This doctor specializing in allergies has developed her career in the clinical, teaching and research field, closely linked to the University Clinical Hospital of Valladolid. Among her numerous merits is being the first female professor of Allergy in Spain.
In addition, the jury awarded a special mention in the category of Best Medical Initiative to Dr. José María Pradillos Serna, for his SOPESUR León solidarity pediatric surgery project.
The ceremony, attended by more than 450 people, was attended by numerous authorities, including the president of the Board, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; the delegate of the Government of Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen; the mayor of Salamanca, Carlos García Carbayo; the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez; the president of the Salamanca Provincial Council, Francisco Javier Iglesias; the subdelegate of the Government in Salamanca, Rosa María López; the territorial delegate of the Board in Salamanca, Eloy Ruiz Marcos and the rector of the University of Salamanca, Juan Manuel Corchado.
Other provincial, regional and national authorities also attended, as well as professionals and companies in the field of health and healthcare. In addition, Soledad Ulibarri, CEO of Edigrup Media, attended the event along with other members of the Board of Directors of regional television.
The jury
The jury of the third edition of the Diagnostic Awards was made up of Fermina Martín, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Health of the Government of Castilla y León; Mónica Robles, technical director of Quality and User Service of the General Directorate of Quality and Health Infrastructures of the Government of Castilla y León; Pedro Redondo, Services Coordinator of the General Directorate of Health Planning, Research and Innovation of the Government of Castilla y León; Graciliano Estrada, member of the Council of Official Colleges of Physicians of Castilla y León and president of the College of Physicians of Segovia; Enrique Ruiz Forner, president of the Council of Professional Nursing Colleges of Castilla y León; María Engracia Pérez Palomero, president of the Council of Professional Colleges of Pharmacists of Castilla y León; David Cortejoso; dean of the Official College of Psychology of Castilla y León; José Luis Morencia, president of the Professional College of Physiotherapists of Castilla y León; Rufino Álamo, president of the Autonomous Council of Colleges of the Veterinary Profession of Castilla y León; Ángel González Vicente, managing director and medical director of the Hospitalarias Valladolid Foundation; César Casado Sánchez, medical advisor of the CyLTV program ‘Diagnosis’, specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery and professor in charge of Plastic Surgery at the Autonomous University of Madrid; Sara Ayuso, director and presenter of the ‘Diagnosis’ program; and Jorge Losada, general director of CyLTV.
The Diagnosis Awards are an initiative of CyLTV with the sponsorship of B. Braun, Incyte, BMS, Angelini Pharma, Bidafarma, Fundación La Caixa, GSK, Novartis, Novonordisk, Roche, Council of Professional Colleges in Nursing of Castilla y León, Johnson&Johnson, Carburos Médica, Pfizer, Fundaneed, Official College of Psychology of Castilla y León, Council of Official Colleges of Physicians of Castilla y León León, Fundación Hospitalarias, Unión de Cajas Rurales de Castilla y León, Professional College of Physiotherapists of Castilla y León, AstraZeneca and Bayer.
