Dr.

Arnoldo Gabardon Malariology of the Ministry of Health and That same year he traveled to Brazil on a
Social Assistance. In 1959, he assumed the scholarship from the UCV's Council for
He was born on
leadership of the Ministry of Health and Scientific and Humanistic Development
March 1, 1909 in
Social Assistance. At the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Sao
Trujillo.
He was an advisor to the World Health Paulo, Brazil, he obtained the title of
At the age of 15 he Tropicalist Physician in 1962
Organization and the Pan American Sanitary
traveled to Caracas to He was head of the Poisonous Animals
Office, an organization that led the fight
study Medicine at the Section of the Institute of Tropical Medicine
against malaria in some countries. He also
Central University of Venezuela. As a and attached to the Communicable Diseases
gave hundreds of lectures, was professor of
student, he worked in the Bacteriology and Service of the University Hospital of Caracas
Latin American Studies at the University of
Parapsychology laboratory of the Social Adult Section
Cambridge (England) and published the
Health Directorate. In 1975 he did the Middle Course of
conclusions of his studies in national and
In 1930 he finished his career where he international books and magazines. Epidemiology diversified in Epidemiology at
obtained a doctorate in medical sciences, he the School of Public Health (UCV) and at the
In 1980 he founded the Venezuelan
traveled to Europe, where he obtained the Hospital General del Sur (Maracaibo) with
Parasitological Society, which he presided
malariology certificate granted by the field work in nosocomial infections
until 1982. He died in Caracas on September
Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hamburg
1, 1990.
(Germany) In 1977 he traveled to the USA as a fellow of
Considered one of the most important the WHO to study Epidemiology and Control
In 1933 he received a
epidemiologists of the 20th century, he of Nosocomial Infections,
scholarship from the
developed a program against malaria that Upon his return, he was appointed an
Rockefeller Foundation,
eliminated the disease in two thirds of epidemiologist at the HUC attached to the
where he received a
Venezuelan territory. Ministry of Health and Social Assistance
Doctor of Hygiene
[Link] Mondolfi Galavís (MSAS), a position in which he remained for
Sciences degree,
4 years, founding the Epidemiology Service
Protozoology mention. He was born in Caracas on July 13, 1935.
of this hospital.
He obtained his Medical Surgeon degree in
In 1936 he returned to the country and
In 1982 he took an Epidemiology course at
1961 at the Central University of Venezuela.
founded the Special Directorate of
the University of Minnesota (Graduate
Summer Session in Epidemiology) where he he was one of the great researchers of our
studied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, country: Magister Scientiarum. in
República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infections and Epidemiology from the Central University of
Ministerio del Poder Popular para la
Epidemiology of Alcoholism. Venezuela, Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from
He was a founding member and president of the University of North Carolina, his career Educación
the Venezuelan Society of Infectology and was developed in the area of Medical Unidad Educativa Patronato San José de
belonged to the Venezuelan Society of Public Sciences. He was Head of the Department of Tarbes. 5to año
Health, Venezuelan Society of Natural Basic Sciences and of the Chair of
Sciences, Medical Society of the Diagnostic Epidemiology at the School of Public Health
Institute, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the Central
& Hygiene, International Society for University of Venezuela, until 1992
Infectious Diseases and National Geographic He was part of the cancer immunotherapy
Society project at the Institute of Biomedicine, he
Fieldwork was his great passion, especially served as professor of the Master in
on two topics that occupied his interest for Epidemiology. In his long career as an
many years: viral hepatitis and malaria. He epidemiologist, academic, teacher and
was part of a group that studied a hepatitis D researcher, he published countless research
outbreak among indigenous people for just articles in national and international journals
over 2 years
He was awarded the "Dr. Jacinto Convit ”by
He retired from UCV in 2000, culminating a
the APIU as“ Best researcher of the year
long 39-year teaching career. Died on March
2011
2, 2014.
Profesor Estudiante
Passed away in 2013
Dr. Rafael
José Guzmán Marialex Granado
Horacio Borges
García.
He was born on
September 29, 1936,
Caracas, Marzo 2020