Abstract
The William P. Yant Memorial Award was established shortly after the death of Dr. Yant and was presented for the first time in 1965. The 1966 Yant Award, the second such presentation, was given to Dr. Alberto Hurtado, Research Director of the High Altitudes Research Institute, Peruvian University of Medical and Biological Sciences. Dr. Hurtado's address to the 1966 meeting of the American Industrial Hygiene Association is reproduced here for our readers and demonstrates the scientific excellence which has earned the honor of this award for Dr. Hurtado.
Dr. Hurtado received his bachelor of science degree in 1920 from the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, and his medical degree from Harvard University in 1924. After serving as an intern and assistant resident at Boston City Hospital, he returned to Peru where he received a second medical degree in 1927 from the University of San Marcos. Returning to the United States in 1931, he served as a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation and later was assistant in the Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine. In the past three decades, Dr. Hurtado has served in various educational and governmental positions in Peru with another one year in the United States as Dunham Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School. He has contributed about 80 papers concerning the influence of high altitude on the human body and the pathological physiology of silicosis.
Dr. Hurtado is an honorary member of the American Physiological Society, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and an honorary fellow in the American College of Physicians.