Professor Rosa Magallón will be honored at the 9th Health Awards

The family medicine specialist and researcher at the IIS Aragón will receive her award at a gala held in Madrid on February 26.

El Women's leadership in healthcare It is celebrated once again at the awards ceremony Healthcare AwardsThese awards, which in 2026 reach their ninth edition, are convened by Medical Writing Annually, they serve to highlight the important work they do throughout the year. women leaders that assume responsibilities first order in the sanitary system.

 Members of the Jury that this year decided on the awarding of these 2026 Health Awards have decided that Rosa Magallón Botaya, the first female professor of Family Medicine in Spain, be honored with this award. The presentation of the IX Health Awards for Women's Leadership It will be held in Madrid on Thursday 26 of February of 2026 at the NH Ventas hotel in Madrid.

Rosa Magallón She joins the list of other prominent figures in healthcare who will be honored at this year's awards. They are:

• Olga Pané Mena, Minister of Health of Catalonia
• María Esther Monzón Monzón, Minister of Health of the Canary Islands
• Sagrario de la Azuela Gómez, managing director of the University Hospital Complex of Toledo
• Montserrat Chimeno Viñas, president of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI)
• Almudena Quintana Morgado, assistant director of the Madrid Health Service (Sermas)
• Isabel Muñoz Machín, Director General of the National Institute of Health Management (Ingesa)
• Timanfaya Hernández Martínez, dean of the Official College of Psychology of Madrid
• Cecilia Martínez Fernández-Llamazares, president of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SEFH)
• Vanessa Paredes Gallardo, the first female professor of Orthodontics in Spain

In the coming days Medical Writing will be announcing the names of more winners of this edition of the Healthcare Awards.

Rosa Magallón's professional career

Rosa Magallón She holds a doctorate in Medicine and is a specialist in Family and Community Medicine. In 2025, she was appointed professor of Family medicine awarded by the University of ZaragozaShe is the first woman to achieve this academic level in this specialty in Spain. She has worked in clinical practice for over 30 years in the Arrabal Health Center from Zaragoza. She was coordinator of the Aragonese Research Group in Primary Care.

Rosa Magallón She thus joins other highly relevant female leaders who have received this award, such as the former ministers Ana Pastor y Maria Luisa Carcedo; the directive of the World Health Organization, Maria Neira; the first woman to preside over the international pharmaceutical company, the Spanish Carmen Peña; the researcher Margaret of the Valley; the director of the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products, María Jesús Lamas; the director of the National Transplant Organization, Beatriz Domínguez-Gilor the oncologist Ana LluchThe researcher also received her award in 2018. Margaret Salas, recognized in the first edition.

This 2026 edition of the Women in Healthcare Leadership Awards is supported as the main sponsor by Bidapharma, and they do so as collaborating companies AMA Mutual Insurance Group, Chiesi, lundbeck, MSD, Oximesa Nippon Gases, Quironsalud, Roche, Siemens Healthcare y Sobi.

For logical reasons of capacity limitationOnly those with express and nominal invitation of the organization.

Source: Medical Writing