Eugenio Fernández Cerra

Eugenio Fernández Cerra
Member of the Puerto Rico Senate
from the district
Personal details
Born 1920
Died 2011 (aged 90–91)
Political party Popular Democratic Party (PPD)
Alma mater Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Occupation Politician, Senator, Physician

Eugenio Fernández Cerra (1920–2011) was a prominent Chest Physician and former Senator in the Puerto Rico Legislature for the Partido Popular Democratico.[1]

Fernández Cerra graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1943 at a very young age (23 years old) and was a Lifetime Contributing Members to the university.[2] He was President of the Medical Association of Puerto Rico and the Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico. Founder of Triple S medical plan and its first Chairman of the Board. Founder of the first Shopping Center of the island in 1960.

Fernández Cerra was also an alternate delegate from the Puerto Rico Delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.[3] He participated in the Third International Congress on Diseases of the Chest, held in Barcelona, Spain on October 4 to 8 1954, where he presented his scientific paper "The Value of a Method of Areosol Bronchial Lavage for Obtaining Positive Cultures in Patients with Negative Sputa and Gastric Washings".[4]

In 1999, Fernández established the Eugenio Fernandez-Cerra, M.D., Scholarship, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Scholarship with preference given to medical students from Puerto Rico.[5] He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity.[6]

References

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  2. ^ "Lifetime Contributing Members F - K". Johns Hopkins Alumni. http://alumni.jhu.edu/lifetimemembership/lifetimecontributingmembersF_K. Retrieved July 9, 2010. 
  3. ^ "Puerto Rico Delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention". The Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/PR.html. Retrieved July 9, 2010. 
  4. ^ "Third International Congress on Diseases of the Chest". Chest (AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CHEST PHYSICIANS) XXVI: 253. Aug 1954. http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/26/2/local/back-matter.pdf. Retrieved July 9, 2010. 
  5. ^ "School of Medicine Scholarships". Johns Hopkins Medicine. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/alumni/support/som_scholarships.html. Retrieved July 9, 2010. 
  6. ^ Hernández, Rosario (July 20, 1993) (in Spanish). R. de la C. 1310. House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. pp. 2. http://www.oslpr.org/files/docs/%7BD9C45AFF-536D-4306-BC4B-213A816108A8%7D.pdf. Retrieved September 1, 2010