The University of Granada has lamented the death of María Castellano, Jienense that in 1980 became the first Professor of Medicine in Spain, and that it was a reference in legal medicine and the fight against macho violence.
Castellano (Jaén, 1948) studied Medicine at the University of Granada (UGR), where she was professor (1196) and retired professor.
Before, in 1980, this doctor by vocation became a professor of Legal Medicine at the University of Zaragoza (1980), in addition to an academic number of the Royal Academies of Medicine of Zaragoza (1986), Granada (2007) and since 2012, of the Royal National Academy of Medicine.
She was also the second woman who occupied the number of academic number of the Royal National Academy of Spanish Medicine (RANM).
In Zaragoza he designed a modern and multidisciplinary department of legal medicine that allowed him to advance in the fight against sexist violence.
His collaboration with the Administration of Justice made it deserving in 1983 of the first class cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort, and in 1992, Castilian received the Police Merit Medal, with a White Distinctive, for his collaboration in the formation of the Spanish Judicial Police, Efe reports.
