María Castellano, First Professor of Medicine in Spain at the University of Zaragoza dies

He World of Medicine cries on Tuesday the loss of María Castellano Arroyo (Jaén, 1948), the first woman who led a chair of medicine in Spain and became a national and international reference in the field of legal and forensic medicine. For 17 years his vital and professional career was closely linked to the Aragonese capitalcity with which it has maintained narrow ties over time. In 1978 he got the Forensic Medical Plaza by opposition and two years later he managed to become the First Professor Woman in Spain in Medicine Facultiesa position (Professor of Legal Medicine) that reached precisely at the University of Zaragoza.

In the Aragonese capital he left, as he explained in the last interview granted Heraldo, the “best” of his life. In that period his professional and teaching activity was especially intense and his impressive curriculum. Was Head of the Toxicology Service of the Lozano Blesa Clinical Hospital between 1980 and 1997 and He had to face the Flying disco firewhere more than 40 people died. It was also Director of the Professional School of Occupational Medicinewhich she founded in Zaragoza in 1990. After passing through Aragon in 1997 she held the Chair of Legal Medicine of the University of Granada.

Academic of the Royal Academies of Medicine of Zaragoza (1986), Granada (2007) and since 2012, of the Royal National Academy of Medicine, became the second woman to occupy the number of academic number of the Royal National Academy of Spanish Medicine (RANM). One of the fields in which he highlighted was in the approach to family and gender violence and worked in cases of about 1,500 aggressions denounced by women.

Until the end of his days he remained linked to his profession. He was currently part of the Scientific Commission of the Spanish Association of Health Rights (AEDS). In fact, on May 31 it was planned that X National Congress of Deontology and Medical Ethics that will be held in Jaén and in which he was going to receive a tribute.

Precisely, the president of the Zaragoza Medical Collegealso Jienense Javier García Tirado, was going to be in charge of making his semblance during this recognition. This group gave him a tribute In the Aragonese capital in October 2019 on the occasion of the presentation of a book dedicated to it, ‘María Castellano Arroyo: Medical, Master and Humanist’, a work edited by the General Council of Official Medical Colleges.

“The whole profession loved her. It was a real authority in the field of legal medicine and also work. His professional career is impressive and his human quality even more“He remembered on her this Friday García lying.