Granada (EFE) .- María Castellano, the first professor of Medicine in Spain and also a reference in Legal Medicine and in the fight against sexist violence, has died this Friday at age 77, reports the University of Granada in a message through her account on social network X.
“The UGR regrets the death of María Castellano, the first professor of Medicine in Spain,” says the University of Granada in her message.
Castellano (Jaén, 1948) studied medicine at the University of Granada itself), where she was professor and retired professor.
María Castellano, academic from the Royal National Academy of Medicine
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.
Her collaboration with the Administration of Justice made her in 1983 of the first class cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort, and in 1992, Castilian received the police medal, with a white badge, for her collaboration in the formation of the Spanish Judicial Police.
