Badge of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia
Dr. Francisco López Muñoz
Francisco López Muñoz, full academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors-Barcelona 1914 (RAED), has been appointed corresponding academician of the National Academy of Medicine of Colombia, the oldest continuous medical institution in the country. The Academy was born as a Society of Medicine and Natural Sciences in January 1873, under the premise of “the study and advancement of the medical and natural sciences, as well as giving solidarity to the medical body and unity to the exercise of the profession”. Elevated to the rank of the National Academy of Medicine in 1890, it was qualified at the same time adviser to the Government on health matters, a role that was ratified almost 90 years later, in 1979.
López Muñoz is a professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Camilo José Cela University of Madrid and director of its International Doctoral School. He’s doctor in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid and doctor in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Alcalá.
