Rubin Jure is a child neurologist and director of the Centro Privado de Neurología y Neuropsicología Infanto-Juvenil Wernicke in Cordoba, Argentina.
Rubin Jure
Director
Centro Privado de Neurología y Neuropsicología Infanto-Juvenil Wernicke
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