Adán Nigaglioni Loyola (12 January 1930 – 18 May 2016) was a Puerto Rican doctor and educator. He graduated from the

University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, School of Medicine is located in the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's the only medical school in the University of Puerto Rico System. I ...

in 1954 where he was top of his class. He did his internship at the

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...

. He was a member of

Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha (), commonly known as La Sigma, is a Puerto Rican fraternities and sororities, Puerto Rican fraternity originally established as the Sigma Delta Alpha Fraternity (Sociedad de Amigos) on October 22, 1928, at the University of Puert ...

fraternity. He was the first Puerto Rican and first alumni to be dean of the

from 1963 to 1967. In 1967, he became the first rector of the newly formed University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus.

Selected writings

*''Apuntes Históricos Sobre la Fundación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico'' (Vol 20, No 1 (2001): March - Cincuentenario de la Fundación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico)

References

1930 births 2016 deaths People from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican people of Italian descent Puerto Rican people of Basque descent 20th-century Puerto Rican physicians University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine alumni University of Puerto Rico faculty 21st-century Puerto Rican physicians {{PuertoRico-bio-stub