MENEGHELLO,JULIO,R., MD, CHILEAN NATIONAL PRIZE IN APPLIED AND TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1996

Revista Medica de Chile adds a well-deserved tribute to Professor Juli o R Meneghello, to whom the Chilean Government awarded the 1996 Nation al Prize in Applied and Technological Sciences. Dr Meneghello is a dis tinguished pediatrician who devoted his professional life to academic and public institutions, envisioning a unifying concept of Pediatrics as a clinical, biological and social specialty. He has set up a school extended to several Latinamerican countries, where a vast number of d isciples fight the deletereous effects of poverty, ignorance, undernut rition and infections, on childhood growth and development. Several in ternational Health Organizations, universities and governmental instit utions from Europe and the Americas have praised the positive and exem plary effect of Professor Meneghello's work in the progress of public health and medical education, mainly in Third World countries. The Rev ista is pleased to publish a special article written by one of his ill ustrious friends, Professor Luis Vargas-Fernandez, also National Prize of Sciences(1985).