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Jun 22, 1855 Bogotá, Colombia Died on 02 Nov 1934 (aged 79)
Colombian gynaecologist
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About Ana Galvis Hotz
- Ana Galvis Hotz (22 June 1855 — 2 November 1934) was the first Colombian woman to have obtained a medical degree as a Doctor of Medicine. Ana was born on 22 June 1855 in Bogotá to Dr.
- Nicanor Galvis from Colombia, and his wife Sophie Hotz from Switzerland.
- In April 1872 she enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern, becoming the first regular full-time student of the University, where she obtained her degree as a Doctor of Medicine on 26 June 1877 with her dissertation titled Über Amnionepithel (On the Amniotic Epithelial); she thus became not only the first Colombian female medical doctor, but also the first from Latin America or Spain, at a time when women could not even attend university in Colombia.
- On her return to Colombia she opened her own medical practice advertising her services as a "specialist on the diseases of the uterus and its surroundings"; therefore she is now also recognized as the first Colombian gynaecologist.
