CARLOS CANSECO GONZÁLEZ

Dr. Carlos Canseco González, was born on 17 March 1921 in Mexico City. He was a Mexican Allergy Specialist practicing in Monterrey  and was a philanthropist.
He received his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the National University of Mexico and also attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
He had also been Minister of the State Health Department and President of the Latin American Society for Allergy and Immunology.

In Mexico he had taught the first course of allergology at the University of Nuevo León (UANL) and raised money to build the first Children's Hospital in Monterrey.
In 1950 he co-founded the Monterrey Football Club and joined Rotary before becoming President of the Rotary Club of Monterrey

Dr Canseco will go down in history as the Rotary International President who launched, in 1985, the Polio Plus Program with the goal of raising US$120,000,000 to provide enough vaccine to rid the world of polio by the centenary of Rotary in 2005.

His goal was to use an aerosol vaccination which he had co-developed with Albert Sabin in 1982.
More than double that amount was raised in a very short period of time.

In January 2002 he was honored as one of the "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" by the Pan American Health Organization. Dr Canseco also received several honorary degrees from several universities including the Seoul National University in South Korea.
On 7 October 2004 he received the Belisario Domínguez Medal from the Mexican Senate.

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posted by RGHF Webmaster Greg Barlow. September 2008