Alice Armand Ugón
Alice Armand Ugón Rivoir (January 15, 1887 – August 17, 1992) was an Uruguayan pediatrician, co-founder of the Sociedad Uruguaya de Pediatría.
Early life
Alice Armand Ugón was born in Colonia Valdense, to parents Daniel Armand Ugon, a Waldensian pastor, and Alice Sophie Rivoir. Her parents were both of French ancestry, and both born in the Piedmont region in Italy. Several of her twelve siblings also became doctors or pharmacists; her brother Enrique Armand-Ugón was a diplomat and a judge, and her sister Ana Margarita Armand Ugón was a noted educator and feminist in Montevideo.[1] She graduated from medical college in 1916, the fifth woman to earn her medical degree in Uruguay. (Her older sister María was the third woman doctor trained in Uruguay.)
Career
Armand Ugón co-founded the Sociedad Uruguaya de Pediatría, with
Personal life
Outside her work, Armand Ugón was a tennis champion.[3] She died in Montevideo in 1992, aged 105 years.
References
- ^ a b "Uraguayan Women" The Woman Citizen (September 27, 1919): 421, 428. [misspelling of title in original source]
- ^ Silvia Scarlato, Oral history interview with Alice Armand-Ugon Rivoir (1887-1992) (SMU 1990).
- ^ a b "Child Welfare New Work in Uruguay" New York Times (October 29, 1919): 17.
- ^ "Five of the World's Foremost Women Doctors" Good Housekeeping (November 1919): 40.
- ^ "Women Physicians in Boston" Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (October 16, 1919): 497.
- ^ "Archivos Latino-Amer. de Pédiatria, Buenos Aires" Journal of the American Medical Association 76(May 28, 1921): 1540.
- ^ "Revista Medica del Uruguay" Journal of the American Medical Association 78(17)(April 29, 1922): 1351.
- ^ "Aortic Insufficiency of Rheumatic Origin in Children" International Medical and Surgical Survey 4(1)(July 1922): 33.
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