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Fernando Mönckeberg Barros took which position from 1974 to 1994?
Fernando Mönckeberg Barros Fernando Rafael Mönckeberg Barros ( born 26 June 1926 ) is a Chilean surgeon , doctor of medicine specializing in nutrition , professor , researcher , and economist at the University of Chile . He is the founder of the ( INTA ) and president of the ( CONIN ) . Early life . The son of Gustavo Mönckeberg Bravo and Beatriz Barros Calvo , Fernando Rafael Mönckeberg is the brother of gynecologist and politician . Barros finished his secondary education , overcoming great difficulties due to undiagnosed dyslexia ; his grades did not give him many options when applying to universities . He performed military service , where he was assigned to the telecommunications sector . There Barros discovered that telegraphy did not present him with the same problems as writing , so he decided that he would continue in that line of work once his service was finished . However , a woman with whom he had a close relationship for a few years managed to use her influence to allow him to enter the University of Chile , where he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1952 . In 1958 , Barros did postgraduate studies in biochemistry and teaching at Harvard University . Academic career . Mönckeberg Barros developed extensive scientific research in the field of child malnutrition in Chile , publishing articles in specialized journals inside and outside the country . He formed CONPAN , an autonomous entity whose objective was the elaboration and coordination of a food and nutrition policy , and he managed to make the country adopt enriched milk . He is the founder and president of the Corporation for Child Nutrition ( CONIN ) . In 1959 , Barros became an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard University Childrens Hospital . In 1965 , he became a professor of pediatrics at the University of Chile , as well as president of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics and president of the Latin American Nutrition Society . Two years later Barros founded the Latin American Pediatric Research Society and served as its first president . In 1972 , he created INTA , and was its director until 1994 . In 1975 , he founded CONIN . From 1994 to 1996 , Barros was rector of the . From 1998 to 1999 , he was rector of the Iberoamerican University of Science and Technology . In 2001 , he became dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Diego Portales University . Mönckeberg Barros has been an academic at the House of Bello ( University of Chile ) for more than 30 years . He has been elected an honorary member of national and international institutions , mainly in the pediatric and nutritional fields , including the , the United States Academy of Pediatrics , the Third World Scientific Academy , and academies of England , Spain , Brazil , and Argentina . Barros was an advisor to specialized committees of the United Nations , Food and Agriculture Organization , UNICEF , and the World Health Organization . In 1989 , Barros tried unsuccessfully to present his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic in the 1989 election . His application was rejected by the on 24 August of that year , as his lists of sponsoring voters exceeded the allowed percentage of sponsors registered in political parties . Publications . In addition to the publication of about 130 articles in specialized journals , Mönckeberg Barros has written some 65 chapters in specialized books , and also 12 of his own works . He is the director of the journal Creces , a publication through which the Educational program for scientific dissemination has been developed since 1980 , aimed at middle and high school levels and medical professionals , and part of the set of programs implemented by CONIN . - Jaque al subdesarrollo ( 1973 ; translated into several languages ) - Chile y sus recursos naturales ( 1975 ) - Políticas de alimentación y nutrición en Chile ( 1976 ) - Antecedentes y acciones para una política nacional de alimentación y nutrición de Chile ( 1976 ) - Crear para compartir : compartir para seguir creando ( 1980 ) - La revolución de la Bioingeniería ( 1980 ) - Desnutrición infantil : fisiopatología , clínica , tratamiento y prevención : nuestra experiencia y contribución ( 1988 ) - Chile en la encrucijada : decisiones para una nueva era ( 1989 ) - Jaque al subdesarrollo , ahora ( 1993 ) - Ciencia y tecnología ( 1994 ) - Desnutrición : el mal oculto ( 2004 ) - Contra viento y marea . Hasta erradicar la desnutrición ( 2010 ) Honors . - 1957 – Guggenheim Fellowship - 1975 – ICARE Award - 1979 – Pan American Health Education Foundation Award - 1985 – Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics , for worldwide pediatrician of the year - 1985 – Award of the World Foundation for Health and Peace - 1993 – Award of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences - 1995 – Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Valladolid - 1998 – National Prize for Applied Sciences and Technologies - 1999 – Award of the Medical Scientific Societies of Chile - 2000 – Academic Excellence Award of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics - 2005 – , granted by the Cultural Heritage Corporation of Chile jointly with the University of Chile and the Presidential Advisory Commission for the Bicentennial of the Republic - 2007 – Recognition of career and fundamental contribution to nutrition in Chile , from the Granotec Technological Center , CTG-OTEC , during the 5th Seminar on Healthy Lifestyles - Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Cuyo , Argentina - Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition - 2010 – for Contra viento y marea . Hasta erradicar la desnutrición - 2012 – National Prize for Medicine