Background
BERRO, Roberto was born on April 16, 1886 in Montevideo. Son of Adolfo Berro and Herminia Garcia.
physician professor and public man
BERRO, Roberto was born on April 16, 1886 in Montevideo. Son of Adolfo Berro and Herminia Garcia.
Graduated University de Montevideo, 1903, Doctor of Medicine, 1909. 1 n. Lina Mayer.
Head of the Children's Clinic, 1910-1912. Acting professor of hygiene, 1911. Head physician of the Policlínica de Lactantes, 1912— 1925.
Titular professor in the University of Montevideo since 1915. Professor of internal pathology, 1915-1917. National deputy, 1917-1923.
Professor (libre) of the Children’s Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine since 1922. Director of the Servicio de Protección a la Infancia, 1923. National Senator, 1925-1928.
Director of the Larrafiaga Asylum for abandoned children since 1927. Member of the Junta de Gobierno, 1933. Minister of Child Welfare (Protección a la Infancia), 1933.
At various times vice-president, and president (1923 and 1932) of the Executive Board of the National Party. President of the Convention of the National Party, 1924-1927. Congresses (in Montevideo unless otherwise noted): First International Congress of American Students, 1908 (vice-president).
First National Medical Congress, 1916 (secretary). Second and Fifth Pan-American Congresses on the Child, Montevideo, 1919, and Havana, 1927. International Congress on the Child of Brussels, 1927.
Seventh Pan American Conference, 1933.
Member Pan American Child Welfare Congress, Montevideo, 1919, Havana, 1927, Mexico City (honorary president), 1935, International Child Welfare Congress, Brussels. Member governing junta, 1933. Member: Society de Pediatría, Sindicato Medical, Society de Medicina, Society Argentina de Pediatría.
Member Society Brasileira de Pediatría.
Married Lina Mayer. Children: Esther and Martha.