Dr. Sylvia Hafez

Panama

Sylvia Hafez has a strong business background and works within the Rare Disease Community to advance cures and treatments for Latin America. As a pioneer and fierce patient advocate, she has established numerous projects in collaboration with prestigious research centers and pharmaceutical companies in Europe, America, and Israel. Including the NIH, Institut de Myologie, Tel Aviv University, among others. To bring forth awareness, cures, and treatments for the region.

Her areas of work include Prenatal- Testing and diagnosis, Genetic Treatments for Non-sense mutations, Congenital myopathies, and Jewish Sephardic Diseases.