Xavier Vilanova i Montiu
Spanish dermatologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Xavier Vilanova I Montiu was a Catalan dermatologist. His father, Pelai Vilanova i Massanet, was considered one of the creators of Catalan dermatology. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona in 1923. Subsequently, following his family's advice he moved to Paris to specialize in dermatology at the Hospital Saint Louis, then stayed for a period in Strasbourg and Milan where he received training from other leading scientists. On his return to Spain, he obtained a doctorate in Medicine in Madrid in 1928. In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, he traveled in 1936 to Colombia to run the leprosarium Aguas de Dios. Again back in Spain, he was Chair of Dermatology at the University of Valladolid in 1942, at the University of Valencia in 1944 and finally at the University of Barcelona in 1947.
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