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Residence
  
Mexico City

Nationality
  
Mexican


Occupation
  
Psychiatrist

Name
  
Ramon la

Born
  
29 August 1921 (
1921-08-29
)
Mexico City, Mexico

Died
  
31 March 2006(2006-03-31) (aged 84)Mexico City, Mexico

Cause of death
  
Cardiorespiratory arrest

Alma mater
  

Ram n de la fuente mu iz nuevos paradigmas en la psiquiatr a


Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (29 August 1921 – 31 March 2006) was a Mexican psychiatrist who chaired the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico (1959), served as vice-president of World Psychiatric Association (1970–76) and founded the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry in 1979.

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De la Fuente graduated with a degree in Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1944 and specialized in Neuropsychiatry at both the Clarkson Hospital of the University of Nebraska (1944–46) and the New York University School of Medicine (1946).

He was a founding member and a chairman of the Mexican Society of Psychoanalysis (1956), the Mexican Psychiatric Association (1967–69), the Mexican Council of Psychiatry and the Mexican College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He also advised the World Health Organization from 1972 to 2000 and entered The National College on 4 April 1972.

De la Fuente died of cardiorespiratory arrest on 31 March 2006 in Mexico City. He had been married to Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente, a renowned art historian who had died a year earlier. His son, Juan Ramón, served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1999 to 2007.

El Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz y su Fundador


References

Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz Wikipedia


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