Ignacio Chávez Sánchez
Mexican physician
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- Doctorate Medicine National Autonomous University of Mexico
- PhD Physiology Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ignacio Chávez Sánchez, M.D., F.A.C.P. was a prominent Mexican educator, cardiologist, and founding member of El Colegio Nacional. Education and professional career Dr. Chávez studied at Colegio de San Nicolás and the School of Medicine of Morelia. He received his bachelor's degree in medicine-surgery from the National University in 1920. He was the rector of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo from 1920 to 1921. He taught several subjects in the School of Medicine of Morelia and at the National School of Medicine since 1922. He specialized in cardiology in Paris under Henri Vasquez and Charles Laubry. He was the head of the National School of Medicine . He visited clinics in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Rome and Brussels to observe their operation and framework. He later founded the first Department of Cardiology within el Hospital General de Mexico . He was also the director of the General Hospital of Mexico . He was the founder and director of the National Institute of Cardiology, the first hospital of this kind in Mexico, and then he is Director of the newly built Institute, for two and a half years again, starting in 1976. He was the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . He was instrumental in establishing international cooperation in cardiology after World War II. He founded and chaired the Mexican Society of Cardiology and the Interamerican Society of Cardiology . Also in 1946, along with Paul Dudley White and Charles Laubry, he co-founded the International Society of Cardiology, an organization of which he was vice-chairman and honorary life chairman . He presided over the fourth World Congress of Cardiology held in Mexico City in 1962. He was a member of the counseling committee of the World Health Organization and the Organization of American States . He participated in 18 different cardiology societies in all America and Europe. He was appointed honorary doctor or rector of 95 universities around the world.
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