Education
Doctor Chávez studied at Colegio de San Nicolás and the School of Medicine of Morelia. He specialized in cardiology in Paris (1921–1927) and then he studied at clinics in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Rome and Brussels.
Cardiologist university professor
Doctor Chávez studied at Colegio de San Nicolás and the School of Medicine of Morelia. He specialized in cardiology in Paris (1921–1927) and then he studied at clinics in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Rome and Brussels.
He received his bachelor"s degree in medicine-surgery from the National University in 1920. He was the rector of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo from 1920 to 1921. He taught several subjects in the School of Medicine of Morelia (1920) and at the National School of Medicine since 1922.
He was the head of the National School of Medicine (1933–1934).
He founded the first cardiology area in the General Hospital of Mexico (1924–1944). He was also the director of the General Hospital of Mexico (1936–1939).
He was the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (March 1965 to April 1966). He was instrumental in establishing international cooperation in cardiology after World World War World War II He founded and chaired the Mexican Society of Cardiology (1935) and the Interamerican Society of Cardiology (1946).
Also in 1946, along with Paul Dudley White and Charles Laubry, he co-founded the International Society of Cardiology, an organization of which he was vice-chairman (1958–1962) and honorary life chairman (after 1962).
He presided over the fourth World Congress of Cardiology held in Mexico City in 1962. He participated in 18 different cardiology societies in all America and Europe. He was appointed honorary doctor or rector of 95 universities around the world.
His statue was uncovered on September 27, 1980 in the park named after him which is located in front of the National Medical Center.
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He was a member of the counseling committee of the World Health Organization (1955) and the Organization of American States (1958–1966). He was a founding member of El Colegio Nacional (1943).