Eduardo Estrella Aguirre

This article is about the physician. For the diplomat, see Eduardo Aguirre (diplomat). For the Mexican association football player, see Eduardo Aguirre (footballer).

Eduardo Estrella Aguirre (1941 in Tabacundo, Ecuador – 1996 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian doctor and researcher who published Flora Huayaquilensis: The Botanical Expedition of Juan Tafalla 1799-1808.

Dr. Eduadrdo Estrella

Dr. Eduardo Estrella studied medicine at the Central University of Ecuador. After graduation, Dr Estrella did his Postgraduate education on Radiotherapy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States from 1968 to 1970. He did his specialized studies in psychiatry at the University of Navarra, Pamplona from 1970 to 1973, Spain. Estrella later chaired the medical faculty at the Central University of Ecuador. Dr Estrella got his doctoral degree from the Catholic University of Quito in the 1980s. This was after he had published extensively on Andean medicine and on the history of medicine.[1][1]

Dr. Eduardo Estrella founded the Ecuador National Museum of Medicine, the history of medicine museum in Quito, Ecuador - South America.[2][3]

  1. ^ [2] Archived 2020-10-12 at the Wayback Machine El Comercio (Ecuador), A History of the Dr. Eduardo Estrella Museum of Medicine in Quito, Ecuador
  2. ^ Pessini, Léo; Barchifontaine, Christian Paul de; Stepke, Fernando Lolas (2009-12-16). Ibero-American Bioethics: History and Perspectives - Google Boeken. ISBN 9781402093500. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
  3. ^ Official web site of the Dr. Eduardo Estrella Aguirre Ecuador National Museum of Medicine in Quito, Ecuador