Background
ARÀOZ ALFARO, Gregorio was born on June 8, 1870 in Tucumân. Son of Gregorio Arâoz and Susana Alfaro de Arâoz.
Argentine physician and professor
ARÀOZ ALFARO, Gregorio was born on June 8, 1870 in Tucumân. Son of Gregorio Arâoz and Susana Alfaro de Arâoz.
Educated medical school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1886-1892. Further studies in France, Germany, Italy, United States of America. Dr. honoris causa, University do Brasil, 1921.
Appointed alternate professor of the Faculty of Medicine, 1892. Substitute professor, 1894. Professor, 1904; counselor, 1906.
Appointed life member of the Faculty, 1911. Formerly professor of the Colegio Nacional of Buenos Aires. At one time secretary to the director general of the Public Welfare Society, chief physician of the Child Welfare Society (Patronato a la Infancia).
Founder of the Medical Mutual Aid Association. Ex-president of the Medical Insurance Society (Sociedad “Seguro Médico”). Formerly editor of the Anales del Circule Médico Argentine and Revista de la Sociedad Medico Argentina.
Member of the Executive Board of the Faculty of Medicine of Buenos Aires. Ex-president of the National Department of Hygiene. Of the National Commission for Inexpensive Houses (Casas Baratas).
Congresses: First Latin-American Scientific Congress (secretary general). Medical Conventions of Montevideo and Madrid. Third Pan American Medical Conference.
Pan American Sanitary Conference of Santiago de Chile, 1911. Second Latin-American Scientific Congress. Fourteenth International Medical Congress: Second American Congress of the Child.
Argentine Academy of Medicine. Argentine Society of Pediatrics (founder). Argentine Anti-Tuberculosis League.
Academies of Medicine of Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela, Spanish Gynecological Society and Colombian Society of Pediatrics (corresponding). Society of Public Hygiene. Argentine Scientific Society.
Argentine Medical Society. Argentine Social Museum (sections "Hygiene and Social Welfare” and “Culture and Education”). Argentine Medical Circle.
Also other societies in Mexico, Madrid, Lima, Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, Sucre, Caracas.