Ramon Guiteras Explained

Ramon Guiteras
Birth Date:	17 August 1858
Birth Place:	Bristol, Rhode Island
Death Place:	New York, New York
Burial Place:	Juniper Hill Cemetery
Occupation:	Surgeon

Ramon Guiteras (August 17, 1858^[1] – December 13, 1917^[2]) was a pioneering surgeon who specialized in urology and founded the American Urological Association.^[2]

Early life and education

He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island,^{[3] [4]} and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.^{[1] [4]} He was the cousin of Juan Guiteras, the noted Cuban doctor.

He became an officer in the United States Army National Guard, and served as the assistant surgeon for the Second Battery of Artillery, First Brigade of the New York Army National Guard, where he was promoted to first lieutenant on May 9, 1890.^[5] He was honorably discharged on July 26, 1893 as a captain.^[6] He also served 1881–1883 in the Boston Cadets.^[5]

Later life and legacy

He died in New York City on December 13, 1917.^[2] He is buried in Juniper Hill Cemetery in Bristol.^[1] In his will he left $350,000 to build a school in Bristol to honor his mother, which resulted in Guiteras Memorial School (1925).^{[7] [8] [9]} He was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2009.^[8] The American Urological Association has an annual award named after him for the individual who is deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology.^[10]

Publications

• Book: Guiteras, Ramon . 1912 . Urology: The Diseases of the Urinary Tract in Men and Women, a Book for Practitioners and Students . New York . D. Appleton and Company . 9781461254768 . 493821057. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (of two).

References

1. Genevieve M. . Crane . David A. Bloom . 1 August 2010 . Ramon Guiteras: Founder of the American Urological Association, Surgeon, Sportsman and Statesman . . 184 . 2 . 447–452 . registration . 10.1016/j.juro.2010.03.146 . 20620396 . 25 March 2020.
2. News: Dr. Ramon Guiteras, noted surgeon, dead . The New York Times . 13 . 14 December 1917 . 2023-03-12.
3. Web site: Ramon Guiteras, MD (1858–1917) . The William P. Didush Center for Urologic History . 25 March 2020.
4. Book: Zorgniotti, Adrian W. . 1983 . Chapter 7: Suprapubic prostatectomy: An Anglo-Indian success story . https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5K-BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 . Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy . Frank . Hinman . New York . Springer-Verlag . 51–54 . 978-1-4612-54768.
5. "Official Register of the National Guard, State of New York, December 31, 1890", page 24 published in the Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York, For the Year 1890 (transmitted to the Legislature February 24, 1891) (Albany, New York: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1891).
6. Annual Report of the Adjutant-General of the State of New York, For the Year 1893 (transmitted to the Legislature January 9, 1894) (Albany, New York: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1894) page 159.
7. Book: Elizabeth Sargent . Warren . Pamela A. Kennedy . 1990 . Historic and Architectural Resources of Bristol, Rhode Island . Providence, Rhode Island . . 91 . 23833645 . 25 March 2020.
8. Web site: Inductee Details: Dr. Ramon Guiteras . Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame . 25 March 2020.
9. Web site: Guiteras Memorial and Junior High School. pls4e. 2018-07-17. SAH ARCHIPEDIA. en. 2020-05-08.
10. Web site: Ramon Guiteras, MD (1858–1917) . The William P. Didush Center for Urologic History . 25 March 2020.

Further reading

• Web site: Ramon Guiteras (1858–1917) Founder of the AUA . 2018 Erecting Giants History Brochure . American Urological Association . 15 . . 25 March 2020.
• News: Miss Gertrude Guiteras Dies After Long Illness . . 31 December 1940 . 103 . 104 . 1 . 25 March 2020. Obituary for his sister.
• Web site: Carons . Akinwunmi . Michele . Paoli . Robert . Waldbaum . History of the New York Section and the Foundation of American Urological Association (AUA) . . 25 March 2020.
• Encyclopedia: Cutter . William Richard . Guiteras, and Allied Families . Encyclopedia of Massachusetts . 7: Biographical—Genealogical . New York, Chicago . The American Historical Society . 231–232 . 25 March 2020. Guiteras' genealogy.
• Hedley . Fenwick Y. . Ramon Guiteras . Americana . January 1918 . 12 . 1 . 865776116 . Plate after p. 8; pp. 9–13 . 25 March 2020.
• Korr . Mary . March 2015 . Ramon Guiteras, MD: Surgeon, Statesman, Big-Game Hunter . . 98 . 3 . 62–63 . 2327-2228 . 25 March 2020.
• Reiss . Harry . January 1980 . Ramon Guiteras (1858–1917) . Investigative Urology . 17 . 4 . 356–357 . 0021-0005 . 1753823 . 6985887. Bibliographic information only.
• Wolbarst . A. L. . Abraham Wolbarst. October 1946 . Reminiscence of Ramon Guiteras and the Formation of the American Urological Association . The Urologic and Cutaneous Review . 50 . 10 . 642 . 20279607.

External links

• • Ramon Guiteras Award at the American Urological Association