Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers (born January 9, 1951) is a Mexican academic and ophthalmologist. He is the

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of the

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, effective November 17, 2015.

Biography

Graue Wiechers entered Preparatory School No. 4 in 1967 and was part of various committees and student groups in the student protests of the late 1960s, including being the student body president of the school in 1969. He graduated from the

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in 1975 as a surgical doctor and then in 1978 with a specialty in ophthalmology. He later studied Biology and Surgery of Cornea Transplants at the

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. Beginning in 1975, Graue Wiechers taught at the Faculty of Medicine. He became the coordinator of the Academic Ophthalmology Committee and then the Chief of the Division of Graduate Studies and Research, a post he occupied from 2004 to 2008. He was named to be dean of the Faculty of Medicine in January 2008 and reelected to the position in 2012. Graue has served on various committees in his specialty. He was the only Mexican to sit on the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and has been the president of the Mexican Ophthalmology Society (1990), the Mexican Ophthalmology Council (2004–06), and the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (2005–07), as well as vice president of the International Ophthalmology Council. He is currently the president of the National Academy of Medicine.Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM
"Semblanza Profesional: Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers"
, 2015Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM
Curriculum Vitae: Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers
, 2015 On November 6, 2015, Graue Wiechers was unanimously selected as the next rector of the UNAM. Graue succeeds

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, another doctor, who occupied the post from 2007 to 2015. He is the tenth doctor to be rector of UNAM. On November 8, 2019, he was reappointed until 2023.

Publications

Graue wrote the book ''Oftalmología en la Práctica de la Medicina General'' (Ophthalmology in the Practice of General Medicine) and has edited three books related to medical education. He has more than 100 publications in the field.

Personal

Graue met his wife during high school in the late 1960s. His son, also named Enrique, is a fourth-generation ophthalmologist. Since 2002, Graue has been the president of the Patronato de la Fundación Conde de Valenciana IAP, a non-profit organization devoted to ophthalmology. He had previously been the chief of the foundation's cornea department from 1980 to 1990.

References

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