José Quiroga

José Quiroga Fuentealba is a cardiologist who served as a physician to Chilean president Salvador Allende. During the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Quiroga witnessed the Chilean Army assault the government palace. He was detained and beaten until his release was ordered by a Chilean military general.[1]

Career

In 1977, Quiroga secured a position at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and moved his family to Santa Monica, California. He volunteered to treat torture victims at UCLA and the Venice Family Clinic for the next twenty-five years. In 1980, Quiroga co-founded the Program for Torture Victims with Argentine refugee psychologist Ana Deutsch. He has spoken about his work at conferences and universities worldwide.

Quiroga was the former vice president and member of the executive committee of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) in Copenhagen. He also serves as treasurer of Physicians for Social Responsibility and was a former medical director of the Program for Torture Victims.[2][3] He received the 2009 Socially Responsible Medicine Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility in recognition of his professional career and social commitment.[4] Quiroga was awarded the Inge Genefke Award in 2012 alongside his peer Jim Jaranson. The award is given every other year by the Anti-Torture Support Foundation to honor outstanding work in the global fight against torture. The official award ceremony took place in November 2012 at the board meeting of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims.[5]

For his work on the human rights of refugees, Quiroga has received press coverage from the Los Angeles Times Magazine the New South Wales Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors' Refugee Transitions.[6][7] In an interview with the Hungarian journal Élet és Irodalom, he further commented on his founding of the Program for Torture Victims and how its relationships with the IRCT drew closer following the Balkan Wars.[8]

Publications

Author
  • Quiroga, José (2009). "Torture in Children". Torture. 19 (2): 66–87.

Co-author

References
  1. Meyerson, Harold (2010-06-24). "L.A., a refuge from the unspeakable". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  2. "Medical services". Program for Torture Victims. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26.
  3. "News from the forensic experts group". IRCT. Retrieved 2011-08-05.
  4. PSR-LA 2009 Gala Event - Dr. Jose Quiroga. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10.
  5. Program for Torture Victims. "Dr. Jose Quiroga Honored for His Efforts on Behalf of Torture Survivors" (PDF).
  6. "Five Degrees of Exile". www.garella.com. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
  7. Yoldi, Olga (2012). "Easing the Transitions: Asylum Seekers in the US" (PDF). Refugee Transitions. 26: 19–27.
  8. "Mi vagyunk a híd az áldozat és a többi ember között". ES.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-02-18.
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