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Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz

Joaquín Cravioto Muñoz, Mexican pediatrician and nutritionist (Pachuca, Hidalgo 12 September 1922 – Ciudad de Mexico 09 April 1998)

From Italian ancestry
 
Authored over 400 works
 
ACHIEVEMENTS 

With F. Gómez & R. Ramos Galván characterized the child severe malnutrition  


First described nutritional recovery syndrome
With F. Gomez & R. Ramos Galván. Nutritional recovery syndrome (Preliminary report). Pediatrics 10:513-26, 1952

Showed that third-degree child malnutrition and kwashiorkor are the same thing

With F. Gómez, R. Ramos Galván & S. Frenk. Desnutrición de tercer grado en Mexico (kwashiorkor en Africa). Bol. Med. Hosp. Inf. 9(3):281, 1952


With R. Ramos Galván established new criteria in child growth dynamics and development


World pioneer in studying malnutrition effects on infantile psychoemotional development (1950s)


Showed that the biological age is less than chronological age in a malnourished child 

With R. Arrieta. Stimulation and mental development of malnourished infant. Lancet 12 Jan 1980 p. 89 

 

Authored a classical study of malnutrition-mental performance relationships

With E.R. de Licardie & H.G. Birch. Nutrition, growth and neurointegrative development: an experimental and ecologic study. Pediatrics 38(2 Part II):319-72, 1966
 
Proposed a modified Gesell scale
 
 

HONORS  

Doctor Honoris Causa, Goteborg University (1970)

Doctor Honoris Causa, Tufts University, Boston, United States

Invited Professor, Cornell University, Harvard University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lecturer, Nobel Conference

Purkinje Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences

Rank Prize for Nutrition, United Kingdom (1988)