Ernesto Cofiño was a Guatemalan physician and a pioneer of pediatric research in his country. Born in Guatemala City in 1899, he studied medicine at the Sorbonne in Paris, graduating as a surgeon in 1929, and went on to become the first university professor of pediatrics at the medical school of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, where he taught for twenty four years. He founded a children's antituberculosis sanatorium and other care institutions, helped found the Pediatric Association of Guatemala in 1945, directed Caritas de Guatemala and promoted several educational projects for young people. A member of Opus Dei, he died in 1991, and in 2023 Pope Francis declared him Venerable.
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Ernesto Cofiño (June 5, 1899, October 17, 1991)
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was a Guatemalan Catholic physician
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He was a pioneer in pediatric research in Guatemala.
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Cofiño was the first University Professor of Pediatrics in the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala medical school
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