Eugenio Fernández Cerra Politician
Eugenio Fernández Cerra (April 19, 1920–2011) was a prominent Chest Physician and former Senator in the Puerto Rico Legislature for the Partido Popular Democratico.Fernández Cerra graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1943 at a very young age (23 years old) and was a Lifetime Contributing Members to the university. He was President of the Medical Association of Puerto Rico and the Asociación de Hospitales de Puerto Rico. Founder of Triple S medical plan and its first Chairman of the Board. Founder of the Metropolitan Shopping Center, the first mall of Puerto Rico.Fernández Cerra was also an alternate delegate from the Puerto Rico Delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. He participated in the Third International Congress on Diseases of the Chest, held in Barcelona, Spain on October 4 to 8 1954, where he presented his scientific paper "The Value of a Method of Areosol Bronchial Lavage for Obtaining Positive Cultures in Patients with Negative Sputa and Gastric Washings".In 1999, Fernández established the Eugenio Fernandez-Cerra, M.D., Scholarship, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Scholarship with preference given to medical students from Puerto Rico. He was a member of Phi Sigma Alpha Fraternity.