The Buenos Aires National Academy of Medicine is an Argentine

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and

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Overview

The National Academy of Medicine is the oldest medical Academy in Argentina and was founded in Buenos Aires in 1822, coinciding with the establishment of the

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School of Medicine. Its establishment was an initiative of

Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827. He was educated at th ...

, Minister of Government and Foreign Relations for

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Governor Martín Rodríguez. Academia Nacional de Medicina

The academy coordinates research and is consulted on medical matters by government departments, judges, public health officials, and the media. The academy hosts lectures and fosters close contact with national and foreign Academies, and with medical and scientific institutions promoting research. Basic and clinical research projects are coordinated and financed by the Academy in three institutes: the Mariano Castex Institute of

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(the largest and best known), and the institutes of

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and

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; prizes and fellowships are awarded annually. Its

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membership totals 35 physicians elected by a vote of their peers, all reside in Buenos Aires, and each represents a different field in medicine. The academic tenure is held for life and ad honorem; members who retire become Emeritus Academy Members. Corresponding National and International Academy Members are elected each year on the same basis as full Members, and, including honorary members, totaled 334. Past members have included three

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laureates: Dr.

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(1947), Dr.

Luis Federico Leloir Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 – December 2, 1987) was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways in lactose. Although born in France, Leloir r ...

(1970), and Dr.

César Milstein César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for d ...

(1984). The academy's headquarters is a Neoclassical building situated on a corner lot in the upscale Recoleta area of Buenos Aires. Its semi-annual journal, ''Boletín de la Academia de Medicina de Buenos Aires'', was established in 1917, superseding ''Anales'' (1823). The Council for Certification of Medical Professionals was established in 1991, and the Academic Council on medical Ethics, in 1999.

References

Academia Nacional de Medicina: Actividades

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