Miguel Pérez Carreño

Miguel Pérez Carreño, who lived from 1904 to 1966, was a Venezuelan physician, researcher, scientist, university professor and writer. He was born in Valencia, in the state of Carabobo, on 28 September 1904 and died in Caracas on 22 June 1966. His father, Luis Pérez-Carreño, was a physician and lawyer who served the Venezuelan government, and the family counted among its relations figures such as Simón Rodríguez and Teresa Carreño. He taught several generations of surgeons, and the hospital of the Venezuelan Institute of Social Security, in El Pescozón to the west of Caracas, bears his name. The source lead gives no further detail about his own specialty or research, so this entry records only what that lead establishes.