Background
PINO-POU, Rafael was born in 1884 in Guanare, April S. Son of Julián Pino and Carmen Pou.
PINO-POU, Rafael was born in 1884 in Guanare, April S. Son of Julián Pino and Carmen Pou.
Assistant director of the Military Hospital of Caracas, 1909. National inspector general of health, 1915. Deputy from the State of Zamora, 1916.
Vicepresident of the Chamber of Deputies, 1916.
Entomologist of the Water Commission of Caracas, 1920. First secretary of legation and chargé d"affaires in Berlin, 1922-1924.
Delegate of the Venezuelan Red Cross to the International Conference on Venereal Diseases of Paris, 1925. Practicing physician in Paris.
Doctor Pino-Pou was the first to point out (in Caracas) that Espiroquetosis Hemorragica was not to be confused with yellow fever.
He is also responsible for other discoveries in human parasitology.
Sociedad de Estudios MédicoBiológicos Hispano-Americanos of Madrid (member of the Executive Board, 1933). Academia Nacional de Medicina of Venezuela. Academia de Medicina of Perú (corresponding).
Société de Society Française Médecine Légale of Paris (idem (the same)).
Société de Chirurgiens of Paris (idem (the same)). Sociedad Médica of Caracas (charter member) Unión Médicale Franco-Ibero-Américaine of Paris (idem (the same)).
Author of numerous studies on medical topics published in the Gaceta Médica de Caracas, Revista Vargas, and Revista de la Sociedad Médica de Caracas.
Married Violeta Shouchair. Children: Carmen Violeta.