Aaron Valero (1913-2000) was an Israeli physician and educator who helped establish hospitals and medical schools, authored medical publications and contributed greatly to the advancement of medical education in Israel in the latter half of the 20th Century. Valero was born in Jerusalem to a distinguished Sephardi family which had settled in Palestine in the early 1800s and on his mother's side, in the late 1400s. His great-grandfather, Jaacov Valero, established the first bank in Palestine. Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds; (alternative Arabic found in Bible translations: أُورْشَلِيم Urshalim)) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meter. ...

Dr. Valero was the first to recognize and describe the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Palestine (British Medical Journal, May 29,1948, pp.1026-1027). And a year later, he observed the outbreak of "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever," in Palestine, (Harefuah Vol. XXXVI No 9,36, pp.1-3, 1st.May, 1949.) His first medical book "Clinical E.C.G." was published in 1973 by the Technion Michlol publishing house, and his second "Bedside Detection," was published in 1980. Dr. Valero personally, as well as through his publications, mentored generations of Israeli medical students and resident physicians. Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom (English: The Doctor Beak of Rome) engraving by Paul Fürst (after J Columbina). ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... The British Medical Journal (BMJ) is a medical journal published weekly in the United Kingdom by the British Medical Association (BMA)which published its first issue in 1845. ...

He attended the Hebrew Gymnasium (high school) in Jerusalem and

• received an M.B. Ch.B degree from Birmingham University in England (1938).
• Upon returning to Jerusalem, he volunteered to work at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. (1939)
• 1941-1946- during WWII, he volunteered to join the British Army Medical Corps as a physician, where he reached the rank of Major.
• 1946- he joined the staff of the British Government Hospital, Haifa which later became Rambam Hospital, of which, he was a founder.
• 1948-1949- during the Israeli War of Independence he served as a regiment physician on Israel's Northern Front.
• 1950- he became Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Rambam Hospital.
• 1956- he became Director of the Israeli Goverment's Poriya Hospital.
• 1972- he was elected a tenured Professor of the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of The Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. (Dr. Valero was one of the founders of both the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering of The Technion.)
• 1980- he became the Dean of Medical Education of the Faculty of Medicine at The Technion.
• 1980-1986- he also served as Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Nahariya Hospital in Nahariya.
• 2002- The Professor Aaron Valero Fund for the Advancement of Medical Education was established and endowed by the Valero Family in memory of Dr. Valero. The Fund will enable guest speakers from Israel and abroad to give workshops, training sessions and to participate in the Professor Aaron Valero Patient – Physician Relationship Day at the Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine of The Technion.

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Kark and Glass,"The Valero Family:Seven Generations in Jerusalem,1800-1949" Gefen Publishing House,2005.

Levy, " The History of Medicine in the Holy Land" 1799-1948", Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House and B.Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1998.

Hurwich," Military Medicine in Israel, the pre-state years, 1911-1948 " Ministery of Defence Publishing House, 1977.

Web site: http://pard.technion.ac.il/archives/presseng/Html/PR14_5_Valero.html (Technion-israel Institute of Technology, Division of Public Affairs and Resource Development.)