Background
VALLS, José was born on June 20, 1896 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
VALLS, José was born on June 20, 1896 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Educated medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1913-1919. Further studies in Institute Rizzoli, Bologna (Italy), 1924-1926.
Professor; Assistant in operative medicine and surgical pathology, medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1923-1926, assistant, in orthopedics, 1926-1928, lecturer, 1928, associate professor., 1929-1938, professor, since 1938. Physician and ward chief, Hospital Parmenio Pinero, 1923-1924. Chief, departments of orthopedics and traumatology, Hospital Italiano, since 1927, and PIosp.
Durand since 1939; assistant, in orthopedics, medical. school, University Nacional de La Plata, 1934-1936, professor., 1936-1940. Official reporter, 3d and 4th International Congresses of Orthopedia, Rome, 1936, Berlin, 1939. President, orthopedics section, 7th Pan American Medical Congress, Havana, 1938.
Secretary, 8th Pan American Medical Congress, Buenos Aires, 1941. Delegate, 1st Inter-American Congress of Orthopedia, Rio de Janeiro, 1946, Congress of Society of Hospital Surgeons, Santiago de Chile, 1946, centenary of American Medical Association, Atlantic City, 1947. Director, Revista Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatología.
Member, 2d International Congress of Orthopedia, London, 1933. Member: Society Argentina de Cirugía Ortopédica (ex-president), Society de Cirugía, Museo Social Argentino, Institute Cultural Argentino-Norteamericano, International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Jockey Club, Golf Club Mar del Plata. Member Academy Nacional de Medicina (Brazil).
American Academy, of Orthopedic Surgeons, Society Española de Ortopedia y Traumatología, and orthopedic societies of France, Italy, Chile, and Vienna.