Background
SPANGENBERG, Juan Jacobo was born on May 11, 1883 in Gualeguaychú, Entre Rios, Argentina.
SPANGENBERG, Juan Jacobo was born on May 11, 1883 in Gualeguaychú, Entre Rios, Argentina.
Assistant, in clinical medicine, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1913, substitute professor., 1916, professor., 193-4— 42. Ward head, Hospital Alvear, 1915-1932. Vice-president, Argentine delegation, Congress of Internal Aledicine, Italy, 1928.
Interventor in medical. school, University Nacional del Litoral, 1931-1932. Head of clinical medicine, Hospital Durand, since 1932. Editor, reviews La Prensa Aíédica Argentina, Archivos de Enfermedades del Aparto Digestivo y de la Nutrición, and La Afedicina Argentina.
Founder and director, review Actualidades Aíédicas, 1934. Honorary director, review Publicaciones Aíédicas. Acting president, national hygiene department, 1938-1939, president, 1939-1943.
President, national advisory commission on asylums and regional hospitals, 1939-1942. Vice-president, Conference Nacional de Sociología, Asistencia Social y Medicina del Trabajo, Córdoba, 1940. Delegate, meeting of International Public Hygiene Committee, Washington, 1940, 8th American Science Congress, 1940: vice-president, 2d Pan American Health Conference, Washington, 1940.
Doctor of Medicine, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1909.
Member organizing commission, Pan American Congresses on Tuberculosis, Córdoba, 1926, and Rio de Janeiro, 1929. Member, national school aid commission, 1939, and national commission on meteorology, geophysics and hydrology, 1939. Member: Asociación Médica Argentina (ex-president), Academy Nacional de Medicina.
Society de Medicina Interna (expres.), Liga Argentina contra el Reumatismo (honorary), Jockey Club. Mar del Plata Golf Club.