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Eugenia Rosalia Chavez de Bartelt Since 1950 Mexico was interested in Phoniatrics as a medical specialty, when in the National Institute of Audiology Dr. Andres Bustamante showed that human communication pathologies needed the development of audiology and phoniatrics. This plan was completed by Prof. Hernandez Orozco in 1972 with the beginning of the Human Communication Medicine specialty, approved by the Health Ministry. Dr.
Pedro Berruecos Tellez , Mexican ENT, began working intensively
in the field of Phoniatrics and Audiology in 1950 leaving ENT
practice. He created the Mexican Institute of Hearing and Language,
a private institution in 1951. Due to Dr. Berruecos interest
in developing Phoniatrics, Prof Dr. Jean Dr. Severino Tarasco Camino has achieved a long and fruitful development of Phoniatrics in Mexico. He began his training in 1951 in Mexico with Dr. Pedro Berruecos Tellez. After staying from 1952 to 1953 in Hospital L’ Enfant Maladie and Institute Gustav Roussy in France, he practiced at the Mexican Institute for Language and Hearing and at the National Institute for Audiology .from 1956 to 1961. From 1961 to 1987 he was in charge of phoniatrics and logopedics service in the General Hospital ‘’20 November’’. From 1987 to 1993 he organized the diagnosis support services department at the same hospital. At present he is working in his private office. He contributed to national and international magazines with 23 medical publications. Psycogenic dysphonia and Consonants scales on Hispanoamericans were important international contributions. He has trained many generations of medical doctors and speech pathologists in Mexico and different countries of Central and South America. He founded different Mexican ENT and phoniatrics societies. He is a founding member of CoMeT and belonged to many international societies in Europe, Latin America and U.S.A. He and his team made the first fluoroscopy studies in the phonation mechanism and in cleft palate patients in Latin America. Prof. Francisco Hernandez Orozco made one of the most important contributions to the development of the Phoniatrics in Mexico He founded the Human Communication Medicine as a medical specialty, a career of three years after general medicine studies. This medical specialty began in 1972 and Mexico has now 227 medical doctors with specialty in Human Communication Medicine working all over the country and some in Central and South America. Prof. Hernandez Orozco has been ENT since 1957 but at the same time he has been always active and very interested in hearing and language pathologies. He has written several chapters in ENT and Human Communication books and his publications are about 80 in international and national magazines. He developed research projects in the field of Audiology and some in relation with Phoniatrics. He has been since 1970 director of the National Institute for Human Communication and has made many personal efforts to fulfil all the expectations for a development in the different areas of the Human Communication in the medical, therapeutical, research and teaching areas. He was General Secretary of IFOS and was founder of the Mexican Council for Audiology, Otoneurology and Phoniatrics among many others . He is honorary member of many Mexican and international ENT and Phoniatrics societies. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since many years. He organized several international and national congresses. He is the director of the Center for prevention of Hearing problems and Latin American Center of Phoniatrics both organizations are in close relation with IFOS. Dr. Fernando Romero Fernandez born in Mexico city, ENT in 1967. Phoniatrical training with Dr. Tarasco during 1967-68. He is the founder of Phoniatrics department in the Pemex hospitals and worked from 1968 to 1995 and has had an intense academical contribution in Phoniatrics of ENT specialty training, and since 1971 until now has given many lectures and courses in national, Latin American and American congresses. President of Audiology and Phoniatrics Assocciation. Member of all the national societies of ENT and Phoniatrics in Mexico and Professor of many ENT generations. He received the Excellence Prize of the Hospital Pemex. He wrote chapters on phoniatrics in books for General Practitioners and about Phoniatrics and Laryngology in the book Human Communication. Dr.
Pedro Berruecos Villalobos born in Mexico City made his clinical
training in Phoniatrics and Audiology with Dr.Berruecos Tellez
in the General Hospital 1966 and 67. He studied in Ferrara Italy
and Bourdeaux France from 1968 to 1970. He participated in many
national and international courses. He made contributions to
the approval of the speciality as a university degree in 1985.
His teaching activities have been very intensive with medical
doctors and speech pathologists in Mexico and some countries
in Latin America. He made several translations of Phoniatrics
and Audiology books and wrote several publications for international
and national magazines. He was founder and president of Council
and Association of Phoniatrics and Audiology. He is member of
the National Academy of Medicine. He is member of different
International Phoniatrics and Audiology societies. Editor consultant
of different specialized magazines. Organizator of national
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