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) |
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