Ignacio Chávez Sánchez
Ignacio Chávez Sánchez ( born January 31 in 1897 Zirándaro / Michoacán; † 12 July 1981 in Mexico City) was a Mexican cardiologist and Rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM).
Biography
Chávez visited the Colegio de San Nicolás and the Escuela de Medicina de Morelia. The title as a surgical physician ( Médico- cirujano ) he was awarded in 1920 at the Universidad Nacional de México, which was not autonomous at that time. From 1920 to 1921 he was rector of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in 1920 and taught various subjects at the Escuela de Medicina de Morelia, 1922 at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina in Mexico City. The specialist training in cardiology, he completed in the period 1921 to 1927 in Paris and continued his education at clinics in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Rome and Brussels. From 1933 to 1934 he was director of the Escuela Nacional de Medicina. In 1935, he founded the Sociedad Mexicana de CARDIOLOGIA. From 1936 to 1939 he was a director and from 1944 head of the cardiology department at the Hospital General de México. A year earlier, he was a founding member of the Colegio Nacional and 1944, he founded the National Institute of Cardiology, which he directed until 1961.
Chavez was president of the Sociedad Interamericana de CARDIOLOGIA since 1946, was from March 1965 to April 1966 Rector of the UNAM, and from 1958 to 1962 vice-president and then honorary president of the International Society of Cardiology. In 1955 he was a member of the advisory committee of the World Health Organization ( WHO) from 1958 to 1966 at the advisory committee of the Organization of American States and was a member of 18 different American and European cardiology associations.
He received honorary doctorates from 95 universities and education offices worldwide. On September 27, 1980 a monument to him was erected in the park in front of the national medical center.