Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz

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name = Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz


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birth_date = 29 August 1921 citeweb |author = El Colegio Nacional | title = Ramón de la Fuente | url = http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/SACSCMS/XStatic/colegionacional/template/content.aspx?se=vida&te=detallemiembro&mi=165 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-06 ]
birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico
death_date = 31 March 2006
death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
death_cause = Cardiorespiratory arrest citeweb |author = La Jornada | title = Murió Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, pilar de la medicina en México | url = http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/04/01/020n1pol.php | date = 2006-04-01 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-06 ]
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residence = Mexico City
nationality = Mexican
known_for = founding the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry and chairing the National Academy of Medicine
alma_mater = National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Nebraska
occupation = Psychiatrist
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spouse = Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente citeweb | author = National Autonomous University of Mexico | publisher = Universia | title = En un merecido homenaje, el maestro Ramón de la Fuente recibe la Medalla al Mérito 'Dr. Ignacio Chávez' | url = http://www.universia.net.mx/index.php/news_user/layout/set/print/content/view/full/10253/ | date= 2004-11-22 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-08 ]
children = Juan Ramón de la Fuente
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Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (29 August 1921 - 31 March 2006) was a prominent Mexican psychiatrist who chaired the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico (1959), served as vice-president of World Psychiatric Association (1970 – 1976) and founded the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry in 1979. 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 (1944-1946) 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 (1967-1969), 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 April 4, 1972.

De la Fuente died of cardiorespiratory arrest on March 31, 2006 in Mexico City. He had been married to Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente, a reknown art historian who 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.

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*" [http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=11447 Memorias de un psiquiatra: de la Castañeda al Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría] ", published in "Letras libres" magazine by Dr. Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (in Spanish).

Persondata
NAME = Fuente Muniz, Ramon de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Fuente Muñiz, Ramón de la (Spanish); Fuente, Ramón de la (Spanish)
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Mexican psychiatrist; founder of the Mexican Institute of Psychiatry
DATE OF BIRTH = 29 August 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH = Mexico City, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH = 31 March 2006
PLACE OF DEATH = Mexico City, Mexico