Background
Sánchez Medal, Luis was born in 1919 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Son of Adolfo Sánchez and Evangélica Medal.
President of the National Academy of Medicine
Sánchez Medal, Luis was born in 1919 in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Son of Adolfo Sánchez and Evangélica Medal.
Early education unknown. Medical degree, National School of Medicine, National Autonomous University, 1943. Post graduate studies, Simpson Memorial Institute of the University of Michigan, 1944-1945.
Pratt Diagnostic Hospital, Boston, 1945. University of Ohio, 1945. And the Tumor Therapy Clinic, Boston, 1950-1951.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, National School of Medicine, National Autonomous University. Professor of Hematology, National Autonomous University. Chief of Resident Interns, Nutritional Illnesses Hospital, 1946-1947.
Director, Division of Teaching, Institute of Hematology, 1965.
Subdirector of Clinical Services, Nutritional Illnesses Hospital. Chief of Laboratory, Nutritional Illnesses Hospital, 1946-1959. Head of the Hematology Department, Nutritional Illnesses Hospital, 1960-1965.
Roman Catholic
President of the National Academy of Medicine, 1969-1970.