Background
Rivas, Damaso De was born on December 11, 1874 in Diria, Granada, Nicaragua. Son of Mauricio and Carmen (Aleman) Rivas.
Rivas, Damaso De was born on December 11, 1874 in Diria, Granada, Nicaragua. Son of Mauricio and Carmen (Aleman) Rivas.
Bachelor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1908, Master of Science, 1909, Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy, 1910.
Bacteriologist to filtration bureau of Philadelphia, 1904-1906, state health department, Pennsylvania, 1907-1910, pathologist since 1917. Research fellow in biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1910, assistant director department of comparative pathology and School of Tropical Medicine since 1910, assistant professor parasitology, 1917-1922, professor since 1922. Pathologist to Friend’s Hospital, Frankford, Pennsylvania, since 1916.
Also pathologist Skin and Cancer Hospital, Philadelphia.
Director and pathologist Pan-American Hospital, New York, 1927. Formerly co-worker at Pasteur Institute.
Assistant Koch Institute, Berlin, and student at university of Paris, Lille, and Heidelberg. Has been member of scientific excursions for study of tropical diseases of Africa.
Member International Council of World Court League and representative to the Peace Conference in Paris. Pennsylvania delegate to 2d International Congress of Tuberculosis, Washington, District of Columbia, 1908. Member of the American Medical Association, American Society of Tropical Medicine.
Married Rosa Reinish, January 23, 1904. Children: Carlos Theodore, Ana Rosa, Maria Luisa.