José Vicente YNSFRÁN

Background

YNSFRÁN, José was born on April 27, 1883 in Asunción. Son of Facundo Ynsfrán and Francisca Jiménez de Ynsfrán.

Education

Educated Escuela El Salvador (Buenos Aires), Liceo Universal and Colegio San Vicente de Paul (Asunción). Fjrad. Colegio Nacional, 1901. Doctor of Medicine, University de Asunción, 1908.

Further studies, school of hygiene, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America.

Career

Director of the Disinfection Clinic (Casa de Desinfección), 1917. Director of the Regional Hospital of San Pedro, 1918-1919. Chief physician of the Cordilleran Sanitary Mission (Campaña Sanitaria en la Cordillera), 1920-1922.

Assistant director (director asistente) of the sanitary mission sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, 1924-1929. Professor of epidemiology and hygiene in the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Asunción since 1927.

Membership

Sindicato Médico del Paraguay. Author of numerous studies on medical subjects sublished in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Anales de la Facultad de Ciencias of Asunción, Revista de la Sociedad Científica del Paraguay, Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana.

Connections

Married Alejandrina da Silva de Ynsfrán. Children: Pierpont Facundo.

Father:

Facundo Ynsfrán

Mother:

Francisca Jiménez de Ynsfrán

Spouse:

Alejandrina da Silva de Ynsfrán

child:

Pierpont Facundo