Endara Moreano, Julio César

Abstract

Ecuadorian psychiatrist, graduated as a physician (1921) and as M.D. (1923) at the Universidad Central del Ecuador (Central University of Ecuador, UCE). Specialized in psychiatry in Chile (1923–1924), with training stays in Argentina (University of Buenos Aires, 1935–1936) (Alarcón, 2010), where he approached the study of criminology. In 1957, he visited psychiatric and neurological clinics in the United States under the Foreign Leaders Program. He stood out as a student in his university years, obtaining the first prize in a philosophy contest organized by the University Federation of Ecuador on the occasion of the centennial of the Battle of Pichincha (Endara, 1922). Since 1923, professor of psychiatry and in 1943, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of his alma mater (García-Silva, 1958). Also, in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, where he taught clinical psychology and projective techniques since 1930, directing the School of Psychology (1965–1966). He was Vice-Rector of the UCE (1943–1947) and for a time Minister of Social Security and Labor during the government (1948–1952) of President Galo Plaza Lasso (1906–1987). He was also a deputy for the province of Pichincha and President of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (House of Ecuadorian Culture, 1957–1961).