Background
SCOSERIA, José was born on May 8, 1861 in Montevideo. Son of Juan Bautista Seen seria and Teresa Monesiglio.
SCOSERIA, José was born on May 8, 1861 in Montevideo. Son of Juan Bautista Seen seria and Teresa Monesiglio.
Professor of medical and biological chemistry in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montevideo since 1884. Member of the Council of Secondary and Higher Instruction, 1886-1909. Chemical expert of the courts of law, 1888-1908.
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montevideo, 1898-1904.
Honorary president of and official delegate to the Latin American Medical Congresses of Buenos Aires, 1904 and 1910, and of Rio de Janeiro, 1909. President of the Latin American Medical Congress of Montevideo, 1904.
President and director of the National Commission of Charity and Public Welfare, 1905-1910. Director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Faculty of Medicine, 1906-1910.
Member of the Executive Council of the same faculty, 1910-1928.
Director-general of national public welfare, 1910-1916. Professor ad honorem of the Faculty of Medicine since 1916, and of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, of the University of Montevideo, since 1931. President of the Uruguayan Anti-Tuberculosis League and organizer of the Anti-Tuberculosis Conference of Montevideo, 1917.
President of the National Council of Hygiene, 1926-1931.
Organizer of the Serological Conference of Montevideo, 1930. Delegate to the Congress of Hygiene of Milan, 1931.
Member of the Committee on Hygiene of the League of Nations.
Société de Chimie Biologique of Paris. Sociedad Universitaria (charter member. Also president on several occasions).
Sociedad de Medicina of Montevideo (charter member).
Honorary Member: Sociedad de Química y Farmacia, Sociedad de Biología, Sociedad de Higiene y Medicina Social, Sociedad Mutualista Fraternidad, and Sociedad Mutualista Italiana, of Montevideo. Sociedade de Química of Rio de Janeiro.
Corresponding Member: Academies of Medicine of Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Lima.
Married Sara Silva. Children: Cyro, Sara Elsa María Angélica, María Esperanza, and José Luis.