Miguel Canela Lázaro
Dominican surveyor, physician and scientist
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| Intro | Dominican surveyor, physician and scientist | |
| was | Physician Diplomat | |
| Work field | Healthcare Politics | |
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| Birth | 29 September 1894 | |
| Death | 1 December 1977 (aged 83 years) |
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Miguel Canela Lázaro was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on September 29, 1894, the son of Pedro Canela (also born in Santiago) and Dolores Antonia Lázaro (a Spaniard). He died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 1, 1977. The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig. 15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay" ) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work .
He was also a conservationist and a diplomat. He received both a surveyor (1917) and medicine doctorate (1924) degrees from the University of Santo Domingo.