Dr. Cecilio Venegas
Cecilio Venegas, President of the Official College of Pharmacists of Badajoz and corresponding member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (READ), has been admitted as a corresponding foreign member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chile and the National Academy of Pharmacy of Peru. The recipient was already a member of seven academies of Pharmacy, Medicine and Health Sciences at national and international levels, and last April, he was admitted to the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Brazil.
On the occasion of his respective admissions, Venegas delivered the acceptance speeches “Chile and the First Pharmacy to Sail around the World” and “Peru and the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition of 1804. The First Global Vaccination Campaign.” In both, he highlighted leading Spanish pharmaceutical activities on the American continent and demonstrated the progress of Spanish pharmacy in its scientific and professional dimensions. In both Chile and Peru, he was invited to address students at several universities and held meetings with patient organisations.
The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chile was founded in 1983 with the mission of preserving and promoting the cultivation, development and dissemination of pharmaceutical sciences in the country, and it fosters links with national and international institutions in order to provide the opinions it deems appropriate and contribute to achieving a better standard in the teaching of pharmaceutical sciences at all levels of education. For its part, the National Academy of Pharmacy of Peru is a scientific and cultural institution devoted to promoting the progress of pharmaceutical sciences, research and professional ethics in the country, and it holds its academic events at the headquarters of the College of Chemical Pharmacists of Peru in Lima.
Venegas is part of various research groups at the University of Seville and the University of Extremadura. He is the author of numerous specialised publications in pharmacology and a recognised commentator in the field. He has been appointed an international expert by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Programme and the Preservation and Conservation of Historical Heritage for Central America and the Caribbean, and has received numerous distinctions related to his professional career. He was admitted as a corresponding member of the READ last December at the headquarters of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy in Madrid with the speech “Two Monastic Pharmacies of the Kings of Spain: Guadalupe and Yuste”, in which he addressed two outstanding historical moments in Spanish pharmacology.
