History of Latin American Dermatology

History of Dermatology in Peruoutstanding work over 40 years. In 1996, the Peruvian Medical Association, in a mainceremony, gave him a Medal of Order for distinguished services in the field of Dermatology.In 2003, at CILAD’s Fifteenth Congress, in Buenos Aires, he was given an award forhis collaboration in the development of Dermatology in Peru, an acknowledgement madeby the President of the International League of Dermatological Societies (ILDS).CONTINUATOR PROFESSORSJuan Manrique 15Juan Manrique graduated from the University of Chile (Figure 15). He was born in Ilo,Moquegua Department, in 1914. He trained at the St. Vincent Hospital in Santiago deChile, in the Dermatology Service of Professor Arturo Parodi, a disciple of Germany’sProf. Jadassohn.In 1944, he joined the Dermatology Department of the University of Chile. Upon hisreturn to Peru, in 1947, he started working at the Workers’ Hospital in Lima, up to 1984.At that hospital, he headed the Dermatology Service, and later, the Specialized MedicineDepartment, up to his retirement. Furthermore, he was appointed Consulting DermatologistPhysician at the Military and Aeronautical Hospitals.In 1960, he became professor at the Medical School of the National Higher Universityof St. Mark, in the Dermatology Department.In 1972, he was asked to open the Dermatology Department at the Federico VillarrealNational University, where he worked as Head Professor.In 1990, he was named Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile, and, a year later,he was given the title of Doctor Honoris Causa.Over the course of his professional life, this distinguished specialist has carried out avast and useful labor in the field of university education: he has given Extension andGraduate courses, he has conducted consultancies on undergraduate and graduate theses,has been part of undergraduate and graduate thesis juries, and has participated invarious academic commissions.Among the most important research works he has published are two DermatologyHandbooks which serve as guides for undergraduate students of the Federico VillarrealNational University.He has participated in various Congresses of his specialized field, both nationally andinternationally, acting as organizer and lecturer.Among the multiple awards he has received are those of the Peruvian Medical Association,of the ex-Workers’ Hospital (now Guillermo Almenara Hospital), of the MilitaryHospital, of the Aeronautical Hospital, of the Peruvian Society of Dermatology, of the BolivarianSociety of Dermatology and of the Chilean Society of Dermatology.He is a member of various Scientific Societies in Peru and abroad, and has held theposition of President of the Peruvian Society of Dermatology and of the Bolivarian Federationof Dermatology.Figure 15. Dr. JuanManriqueJosé Neyra 15José Neyra is a physician, Doctor in Medicine, specialist in Tropical Medicine, Leprology,Phthisiology and Sanitary Medicine. He was born in Lima in 1920; he completed hisgraduate studies in France; he is the author of various studies on the Epidemiology ofLeprosy in Peru (Figure 16).He worked for thirty-two years at the Ministry of Health, of which he became Vice-Minister in 1978.He has dedicated a large portion of his time to teaching, working as Professor for fortyyears at the St. Ferdinand Medical School, where he attained the category of Head Professorin the specialized field of Tropical Diseases.321