Adán Nigaglioni Loyola

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola (12 January 1930 – 18 May 2016) was a Puerto Rican doctor and educator.^[1][2]

Adán Nigaglioni Loyola
Born	Adán Nigaglioni Loyola (1930-01-12)12 January 1930 Peñuelas, Puerto Rico
Died	18 May 2016(2016-05-18) (aged 86) Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Nationality	Puerto Rican / American
Occupation(s)	doctor and educator.

He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 1954 where he was top of his class.^[3] He did his internship at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. He was the first Puerto Rican and first alumni to be dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967. In 1967, he became the first rector of the newly formed University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus.^[4]

Selected writings

• Apuntes Históricos Sobre la Fundación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (Vol 20, No 1 (2001): March - Cincuentenario de la Fundación de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico)

References

1. Notice of death of Dr Adán Nigaglioni Loyola; accessed June 2, 2016. (in Spanish)
2. Dialogando con el doctor Adán Nigaglioni, Rector Emeritus 2016-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; accessed June 2, 2016. (in Spanish)
3. Torres, Victor (2000). No quiero decir adiós: memorias de un hablador (in Spanish). University of Puerto Rico: Universidad de Puerto Rico. p. 402. ISBN 0-8477-0184-0.
4. "La Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Puerto Rico" (in Spanish). Instituto de Historia de las Ciencias de la Salud (IHICIS)/UPR Recinto de Ciencias Médicas. Retrieved May 20, 2016.