Background
VACCAREZZA, Raúl F was born on June 27, 1893 in Alberti, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
VACCAREZZA, Raúl F was born on June 27, 1893 in Alberti, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Assistant in clinic of infectious diseases, medical. school, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1920-1925, substitute professor., 1925-1935, professor., 1935-1938, professor, of tuberculosis pathology, since 1938. Physician, Hospital Muñiz, since 1928. President, national commission to study brucellosis, 1932.
Secretary general and acting president, national department, of hygiene, 1932-1933. President, Argentine delegation, Sanitary Conference in Cologne, 1933. Delegate, 9th Pan American Sanitary Conference, 1934.
President, II Reunión Rioplatense de Tisiologia, 1935, I Congreso Argentino de Tisiología, 1945. Vice-president, national tuberculosis commission, 1941-1943. President, commission to study tuberculosis of bovine origin.
Vaccarezza and Carolina Rilla. Doctor of Medicine, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1916.
Member: Society Argentina de Tisiología, Colegio de Médicos Tisiólogos Universitarios (honorary president), Asociación de Médicos Municipales, Royal Sóc. of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London), American College, of Chest Physicians (governor in Argentina). Member of tuberculosis societies in Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Peru.