Ignacio Chavez Sánchez

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Ignacio Chávez Sánchez (born January 31, 1897 in Zirándaro / Michoacán , † July 12, 1981 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican cardiologist and rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

biography

Chavez attended the Colegio de San Nicolás and the Escuela de Medicina de Morelia . He was awarded the title of medical surgeon ( Médico-cirujano ) in 1920 at the Universidad Nacional de México, which was not yet autonomous at the time. From 1920 to 1921 he was rector of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and taught various subjects at the Escuela de Medicina de Morelia in 1920 and from 1922 at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina in Mexico City. He completed his specialist training as a cardiologist in Paris between 1921 and 1927 and continued his education at clinics in Berlin , Prague , Vienna , Rome and Brussels . From 1933 to 1934 he was head of the Escuela Nacional de Medicina. In 1935 he founded the Sociedad Mexicana de Cardiología . From 1936 to 1939 he was director and from 1944 head of the cardiology department at the Hospital General de México. A year earlier he was a founding member of the Colegio Nacional and in 1944 he founded the National Institute of Cardiology, which he headed until 1961.

Chávez was President of the Sociedad Interamericana de Cardiología from 1946 , was Rector of UNAM from March 1965 to April 1966 and Vice-President from 1958 to 1962 and then Honorary President of the International Society of Cardiology . In 1955 he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO), from 1958 to 1966 of the Advisory Committee of the Organization of American States and was a member of 18 different American and European cardiology associations.

He holds honorary doctorates and rectorates from 95 universities worldwide. On September 27, 1980, a memorial was erected to him in the park in front of the national medical center.

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SURNAME Chavez Sánchez, Ignacio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican cardiologist and rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Zirándaro , Michoacán
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1981
Place of death Mexico city