Alice Armand Ugón

Alice Armand Ugón was born in Colonia Valdense, to parents Daniel Armand Ugon, a Waldensian pastor, and Alice Sophie Rivoir. Her parents were both of French ancestry, and both born in the Piedmont region in Italy. Several of her twelve siblings also became doctors or pharmacists; her brother Enrique Armand-Ugón was a diplomat and a judge, and her sister Ana Margarita Armand Ugón was a noted educator and feminist in Montevideo.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qtYRAQAAMAAJ&dq=Alice+Armand+Ugon&pg=PT346 "Uraguayan Women"] The Woman Citizen (September 27, 1919): 421, 428. [misspelling of title in original source] She graduated from medical college in 1916, the fifth woman to earn her medical degree in Uruguay. (Her older sister María was the third woman doctor trained in Uruguay.)

Armand Ugón co-founded the Sociedad Uruguaya de Pediatría, with Luis Morquio and others.Silvia Scarlato, [https://www.smu.org.uy/dpmc/hmed/historia/articulos/armand-ugon-a.pdf Oral history interview with Alice Armand-Ugon Rivoir (1887-1992)] (SMU 1990). She ran a free clinic for mothers and babies in Montevideo, oversaw female students' health in the public schools of Montevideo, and taught chemistry in a girls' high school.[https://www.proquest.com/news/docview/497339225/446AA2CD790D4556PQ/1 "Child Welfare New Work in Uruguay"] New York Times (October 29, 1919): 17.[https://books.google.com/books?id=lmojAQAAMAAJ&dq=Doctor+Armand-Ugon&pg=RA3-PA40 "Five of the World's Foremost Women Doctors"] Good Housekeeping (November 1919): 40. Armand Ugón was a delegate to the International Conference of Women Physicians held in 1919 in New York City, and on the same trip was a guest of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association on a tour of several American colleges.[https://books.google.com/books?id=EtE9AQAAMAAJ&dq=Doctor+Armand-Ugon&pg=PA497 "Women Physicians in Boston"] Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (October 16, 1919): 497. In 1921 she published research on measles and meningitis in children.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GEccAQAAMAAJ&dq=Armand+Ugon&pg=PA1540 "Archivos Latino-Amer. de Pédiatria, Buenos Aires"] Journal of the American Medical Association 76(May 28, 1921): 1540. In 1922 she published her research findings on typhoid in children,[https://books.google.com/books?id=ipA1AQAAMAAJ&dq=Alice+Armand+Ugon&pg=PA1351 "Revista Medica del Uruguay"] Journal of the American Medical Association 78(17)(April 29, 1922): 1351. and on acute aortic rheumatism.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jgwgAQAAMAAJ&dq=Alice+Armand+Ugon&pg=RA1-PA33 "Aortic Insufficiency of Rheumatic Origin in Children"] International Medical and Surgical Survey 4(1)(July 1922): 33.

Outside her work, Armand Ugón was a tennis champion. She died in Montevideo in 1992, aged 105 years.

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