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[Donato G Alarcón, founder of institutions devoted to respiratory diseases in Mexico]
1Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, SSA, México DF, México. perezpad@servidor.unam.mx
Abstract:
Dr. Donato G. Alarcón was the founder director of the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases recently named "Ismael Cosío Villegas ", officially established on December 31, 1935. He was also the first president of the Mexican Society of Tuberculosis Studies, and the first director of its journal: the Mexican Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, both starting in 1939 and the first general director of the National Committee of Fight Against Tuberculosis. In Mexico only Dr. Donato G. Alarcón, in the respiratory diseases, and Dr. Ignacio Chávez, in the cardiovascular diseases, took the initial responsability of the three equivalent institutions: the National Institute, the Society of Specialists and the journal of the specialty. He was also the first pulmonologist elected director of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico and director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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