Dr. Juana María Vázquez Lara has more than 12 years of professional experience as a Nurse in different Spanish cities and autonomous communities, in different services such as Hospital and Outpatient Emergency, Internal Medicine, ICU, Maternity Ward, Primary Care and other services. She has excelled as a teacher in the Nursing Department of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Ceuta. 

In addition to this, she is Director and author of several theses published in the Institute of Ceuta Studies, as well as countless publications and several lines of research that she has developed thanks to her extensive postgraduate training that has enabled her transversal competencies as a midwife.  

• Primary Care Nurse
• Nurse of the Emergency Service 061 of the Health Management Area of Ceuta.
• Doctorate from the University of Granada 
• Acting midwife in the Childbirth Service at the University Hospital of Ceuta.
• Head of Studies of the Teaching Unit of Midwives of Ceuta
• Professor at the Ceuta Midwifery Teaching Unit. 
• National Coordinator of the Obstetric-Gynecological Emergencies working group of the Spanish Society of Emergency Nursing (SEEUE).   
• Master's Degree of the Official Doctoral Program in Physical Education and Health.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Health Promotion in the Community by the UNED (UNED).
• Specialty in Obstetric and Gynecological Nursing (Midwife) at the Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella, University School of Nursing and Midwifery of Malaga by the University of Malaga.
• Graduated in Diploma in Nursing at the University School of Nursing Salus Infirmorum at the University of Cadiz.