Ophthalmology is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. A former term is oculism.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico is a public research university in Mexico. A portion of Ciudad Universitaria is a UNESCO World Heritage site that was designed and decorated by some of Mexico's best-known architects and painters of the 20th century. The campus also hosted the main events of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games. All Mexican Nobel laureates are alumni or faculty of UNAM. UNAM is known for its rigorous admissions,with acceptance rates often under 10%. Its research and education are also globally recognized for their excellence and impact. UNAM was founded,in its modern form,on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a secular alternative to its predecessor,the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. UNAM was also the birthplace of the student movement of 1968.
Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez is a Mexican psychiatrist,academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007. He is currently a professor emeritus of Psychiatry at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Chairs the Board of the Aspen Institute Mexico. On 18 February 2019 he began his term as the Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations.
The Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara,commonly abbreviated to UAG or Autónoma,is a coeducational,independent,private university based in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. Established in 1935,it was the first private university and medical school in Mexico. The creation of the university was a conservative response to a more-left wing direction being taken in Mexico in public higher education at the time. It was first conceived with the name Universidad del Occidente,but would later be styled to Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG).
The 1999–2000 strike and shutdown of the UNAM had its origins in the January 1999 announcement by its latest rector that tuition would increase significantly and graduation requirements would become more restrictive. In response,a large group of students declared a strike and blockaded the main campus to the point of institutional paralysis. The blockades intensified and eventually led to the university's closure,during which there were violent encounters between opposition groups,students,guards and faculty. The crisis led to the eventual resignation of the university's rector and appointment of a new one. Along the way,bloody conflicts resulted in serious injuries and even fatalities on the unlawfully occupied campus. Eventual action by the recently created federal police finally ended the occupation during February 2000.
JoséIgnacio Barraquer Moner was a Spanish ophthalmologist and inventor born in Barcelona who did most of his life's work in Bogotá,Colombia.
Ana María CettoKramis is a Mexican physicist and professor. She is known for her contributions to quantum mechanics,stochastic,electrodynamics,and biophysics of light,and for her work as a pacifist. From 2003 to 2010 she was Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She is also professor at the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),of which she was also director. Cetto is responsible for several scientific literature programs in Latin America and for several international programs on the promotion and participation of women in science.
JoséNarro Robles is a Mexican physician,researcher,academic,and politician. He is a former director of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was elected its 23rd Rector on November 20,2007. After two 4-year periods leading UNAM,in February 2016,he was appointed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to replace Mercedes Juan as head of the Mexican Secretariat of Health.
The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro was a historic Mexican rock festival held on September 11–12,1971,on the shores of Lake Avándaro near the Avándaro Golf Club,in a hamlet called Tenantongo,near the town of Valle de Bravo in the central State of Mexico. The festival,organized by brothers Eduardo and Alfonso Lopez Negrete's company Promotora Go,McCann Erickson executive and sports promoter Justino Compean and Telesistema Mexicano producer Luis de Llano Macedo,took place at the height of La Onda and celebrated life,youth,ecology,music,peace and free love,has been compared to the American Woodstock festival for its psychedelic music,counterculture imagery and artwork,and open drug use. A milestone in the history of Mexican rock music,the festival has drawn anywhere from an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 concertgoers.
UNAM'sSchool of Medicine is the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),located at the university's main campus of Ciudad Universitaria. Established in 1553 as part of the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico,it is one of the oldest medical schools in the Americas. The school has undergraduate and graduate studies departments. It does joint teaching with some other schools,e.g.,the School of Science. It also has many grants involving UNAM's Engineering School,in areas such as smart and connected health. It is one of the most recognized schools in the university and in Mexico. The latest three rectors of the university,including the current one,are former deans from this school.
The Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca is a public university located in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez in state of Oaxaca,Mexico.
Enrique Cornelio Osornio Martínez de los Ríos was a Mexican politician and military surgeon with the rank General Brigadier Médico Cirujano.
Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa is a Mexican lawyer and politician who works with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He served as the Mayor of Mexico City from 2012 to 2018. Mancera graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1989,and he was awarded the Gabino Barreda Medal two years later for being the best student of his class. He has a master's degree from the University of Barcelona and the Metropolitan Autonomous University and a Juris Doctor from the UNAM.
Jeewan Singh Titiyal is an Indian ophthalmologist,credited with the first live cornea transplant surgery by an Indian doctor. He was honoured by the Government of India,in 2014,by bestowing on him the Padma Shri,the fourth highest civilian award,for his services to the field of medicine.
Gullapalli Nageswara Rao is an Indian ophthalmologist,the chairman of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI) and the founder of the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute,Hyderabad. A former associate professor at the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester,Rao is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences,India. He was honored by the Government of India,in 2002,with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri. He was elected in 2017 to the Ophthalmology Hall of Fame instituted by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Berthold Seitz is a German ophthalmologist,professor and director of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Saarland University Medical Center in Homburg,Saarland. He is known for his scientific contributions in the fields of cornea transplantation,cataract surgery and artificial lens-calculation after refractive corneal surgery as well as techniques of amniotic membrane transplantation and its histological integration patterns in the cornea.
On January 18,2017,15-year-old high school student Federico Guevara opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun inside a classroom at Colegio Americano del Noreste in Monterrey,Nuevo León,Mexico. Guevara then attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself but missed,then ran out of ammunition. Students Ana Cecilia Ramos and Luis Fernando Martínez,both 14 years old,and 24-year-old teacher Cecilia Cristina Solís,suffered critical head injuries. They were listed in critical condition. After two months,Cecilia died in the hospital. 14-year-old Mariel Chávez suffered an arm injury but was declared stable. Guevara had psychological problems.
The 2018 UNAM student movement began on August 27,2018 with the protests of the Azcapotzalco College of Sciences and Humanities in Mexico,where they demanded solutions to the problems of both their campus and the CCH in general. The On August 31,the principal of the campus resigned from her position due to the repression of the demands,but when not all were met,the students took over the facilities.
