Background
ROFFO, Ángel was born on December 30, 1882 in Buenos Aires. Son of Juan Roffo.
Argentine physician and cancer specialist
ROFFO, Ángel was born on December 30, 1882 in Buenos Aires. Son of Juan Roffo.
Prosector of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, 1910-1918. Director of the laboratory of the Muñiz Hospital, 1910. Head of the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy in the Spanish Hospital, 1910—1918 j head of trabajos prácticos of the chair of urology in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, 1910-1918.
Prosector in the Muñiz Hospital, 1911— 1917.
Charged with a special study on cancer by the National Department of Hygiene, 1912-1918. Professor of pathological anatomy in the Argentine Medical Center and in the Center of Medical Students, 1912-1918.
Appointed to the chair of pathological anatomy in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, 1912-1913. Alternate professor since 1915.
President of the Examining Committee of Pathological Anatomy, 1924-1931.
Director and founder of the Nurses’ School, 1924. Member of the Superintending Commission of the National Institute of Radium, 1926-1932. President of the Student Council Number.
XVII, 1930.
Professor of natural sciences in the National School of Commerce, 1913-1932. Director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine of Buenos Aires. Organized and founded the dispensary for the diagnosis of cancer and for the service of gynecology in the Argentine Red Cross, 1927.
As president of the Argentine Red Cross founded and organized the staff of auxiliary nurses, 1929: scientific counselor of the Argentine League for the Control and Prevention of Cancer, 1922.
Member of the National Committee on the editing of the Index analyticus cancerologiae, 1927. Member of the permanent committee of the University of Paris in Buenos Aires, 1929.
Founder and president of the LatinAmerican Confederation for the Study of Cancer, 1929. President of the Commission for the Control of Cancer, 1929.
Member of the committee, editor, and founder of the Internationale Radiotherapie, Besprechungswerk auf dem Gebiete der Röntgen-Curie-Licht und Elecktrotherapie, 1928.
Delegate to numerous medical conferences. Director of the Boletín del Instituto de Medicina Experimental, 1924. Member of the editorial boards of the following journals: Revista de Ciencias Médicas, Louisiana Prensa Médica Argentina, Revista Médica Latino Americana, and Louisiana Medicina Argentina, 1924, Nosokomeion, Germany, Seuchenbekämpfung, Vienna, 1931, and Crónica Médica, Valencia, 1929.
Member of the board of consultants of the review Estomatología, 1931.
Member of the collaborating committee on the Section on Cancer of the Medicina Latina, Madrid, 1929. Member of the foreign scientific delegation of the Gaceta Médica Española, Madrid, 1929.
Scientific co-director of the review Les Néoplasmes, Paris, 1924. Member of the Scientific Counsel of the Revue SudAméricaine de Society Française Médecine Légale et de Chirurgie, Paris, 1929.
Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio del Cáncer (president and founder). Argentine Red Cross (former president). Deutsche Zentralkomitee zur Erforschung und Bekämpfung der Krebskrankheit, Berlin.
Federado Internationalis Electro Radiotherapiae (president of the Argentine section).
Ehrenkomitee fremder Staaten und Internationaler Organisationen der Internationalen Hygieneausstellung, Dresden. Deutsche Pathologische Gesellschaft.
Internationale Krankenhaus - Gesellschaft. Academia de Medicina, Rio de Janeiro.
Sociedad de Medicina y Cirurgía Española.
Society of Biotipology. Academia Nacional de Medicina, Venezuela. Academia Nacional de Medicina, Lima.
Société de Pathologie Comparée, ParisSociedad Médica, Louisiana Plata.
Married Helena Roffo-Larroque "(deceased). Children: Angel H.