Doctor David Araujo Vilar received the "Celia Carrión Perez de Tudela" award in research for his clinical and professional career in the research of infrequent lipodystrophies.
The award ceremony took place in the packed Aula Magna of the Novoa Santos Building of the University of Santiago de Compostela with a forum of more than 350 people including her own medical students, colleagues, AELIP Board of Directors, families and friends.
The president of AELIP in an emotional speech expressed with words of gratitude the dedication, love, love, passion and dedication that this professional puts into his work every day and reviewed in a short way from the first day they met David when they went to visit him for the first time in his office in Santiago de Compostela, until the day Celia's Encephalopathy was discovered, a neurodegenerative disease that was discovered by his work group a few months after the death of Celia Carrión Perez de Tudela Cánovas.
Araujo had only words of affection and pride for AELIP and for Celia's parents. With emotion and tears in his eyes, he addressed the audience and concluded concisely with "IT IS WORTH IT TO BE A MEDICAL DOCTOR" which instantly caused the whole room to stand up and join in a warm applause that lasted for more than a minute, making this recognition even more special if possible and touching everyone present.
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE DAVID ARAUJOS AND THAT IS WHY WE WANT TO DEDICATE THESE BEAUTIFUL LINES TO YOU, THANK YOU DOCTOR FOR YOUR COMMITMENT AND VOCATION.
