Alice Armand Ugón, from a 1919 publication.

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 Luis Morquio and others.[2] She ran a free clinic for mothers and babies in Montevideo, oversaw female students' health in the public schools of Montevideo, and taught chemistry in a girls' high school.[3][4] Armand Ugón was a delegate to the International Conference of Women Physicians held in 1919 in New York City,[1] and on the same trip was a guest of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association on a tour of several American colleges.[5] In 1921 she published research on measles and meningitis in children.[6] In 1922 she published her research findings on typhoid in children,[7] and on acute aortic rheumatism.[8]

Personal life

Outside her work, Armand Ugón was a tennis champion.[3] She died in Montevideo in 1992, aged 105 years.

References

  1. 1 2 "Uraguayan Women" The Woman Citizen (September 27, 1919): 421, 428. [misspelling of title in original source]
  2. ↑ Silvia Scarlato, Oral history interview with Alice Armand-Ugon Rivoir (1887-1992) (SMU 1990).
  3. 1 2 "Child Welfare New Work in Uruguay" New York Times (October 29, 1919): 17.
  4. ↑ "Five of the World's Foremost Women Doctors" Good Housekeeping (November 1919): 40.
  5. ↑ "Women Physicians in Boston" Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (October 16, 1919): 497.
  6. ↑ "Archivos Latino-Amer. de Pédiatria, Buenos Aires" Journal of the American Medical Association 76(May 28, 1921): 1540.
  7. ↑ "Revista Medica del Uruguay" Journal of the American Medical Association 78(17)(April 29, 1922): 1351.
  8. ↑ "Aortic Insufficiency of Rheumatic Origin in Children" International Medical and Surgical Survey 4(1)(July 1922): 33.
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