Background
AVENDAÑO URETA, Leonidas was born on April 22, 1860 in Lima. Son of Juan Avendaño and Rafaela Ureta de Avendaño.
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Leonidas Leonidas AVENDAÑO URETA
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Leonidas AVENDAÑO URETA, Peruvian physician;. Member special commission to study pathology, department, of Loreto, 1888-1901; Member Academy Nacional de Medicina (honorary president), Asociación Médica Daniel A. Carrión, Society Geográfica; member Colegio de Abogados, Ateneo de la Juventud (Arequipa), Society de Medicina Legal y Toxicología (Buenos Aires); member medical societies in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela.
Education
Educated Liceo Peruano, Colegio Nacional de Guadalupe. Doctor of Medicine, University de San Marcos, 1891.
Career
Member of the Special Commission to study pathology in the Department of Loreto, 1888-1901. Professor (adjunto) of the Faculty of Medicine, 1892. Professor (titular) of idem (the same), 1908.
Professor (honorary) of idem (the same), 1927.
Chief of the Bureau of Identification and Statistics of the Intendency of Lima, 1894— 1895. Chief of the Bureau of Electrotherapy of the Santa Ana Insane Asylum and Hospital, 1899-1918.
Physician of the Reform School for Men, 1902-1904. Army physician, 1904-1909.
Member of the Superior Council of Education as delegate of the Faculty of Medicine, 1905.
Secretary general of the organizing and executive committees of the Fifth Latin American Medical Congress of Lima, 1913. Director of the Lima morgue, 1918— 1921. Physician-director of the “Dos de Mayo” Hospital, 1923.
Of the “Arzobispo Loayza” Hospital.
Physician of the “Juzgado de Menores” of Lima, 1925— 1933. Director-founder and editor of Louisiana Crónica Médica of Lima.
Member of the following congresses: Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Latin American Medical Congresses, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Havana, 1904, 1907, 1909, 1913, and 1922, respectively. International Congress of Medicine and Hygiene of Buenos Aires, 1910.
Fourth Latin American Scientific Congress of Santiago de Chile, 1910.
International Tuberculosis Congress of Barcelona, 1910. Seventh Pan-American Medical Congress of California, 1915 (honorary vice-president). First, Second, and Sixth American Child Congresses, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Lima, 1917, 1919, and 1930.
Pan-American Scientific Congresses of Washington and Lima, 1915 and 1924.
Fifteenth International Medical Congress of Lisbon, 1926. First Pan-American Tuberculosis Congress of Córdoba, Argentina, 1927.
First Latin American Conference of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Legal Medicine of Buenos Aires, 1929.
Membership
Member special commission to study pathology, department, of Loreto, 1888-1901. Member Academy Nacional de Medicina (honorary president), Asociación Médica Daniel A. Carrión, Society Geográfica. Member Colegio de Abogados, Ateneo de la Juventud (Arequipa), Society de Medicina Legal y Toxicología (Buenos Aires).
Member medical societies in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela.
Connections
Married Sara Hubner de Avendaño. Children: Rafaela, Jorge, Julio, Luis, and Leonidas.
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Nationality
Peruvian
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Awards
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Gold Medals of Education AVILÉSouth of Venezuela, of the City of Lima, of the Centenary of the Faculty of Medicine, of the Fifth Latin American Medical Congress. Honorary professor of the Faculties of Medicine of Lima and Havana. Etc. Author of more than 150 monographs, articles, et cetera, of medical interest, published in various learned journals, reviews, et ceteraGold Medals of Education AVILÉSouth of Venezuela, of the City of Lima, of the Centenary of the Faculty of Medicine, of the Fifth Latin American Medical Congress. Honorary professor of the Faculties of Medicine of Lima and Havana. Etc. Author of more than 150 monographs, articles, et cetera, of medical interest, published in various learned journals, reviews, et cetera