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Carlos Canseco graduated from the National University of Mexico (nowadays UNAM ) with a doctorate in medicine and specialized in allergology at the Northwestern University and in clinic immunology at the University Of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania , United States . Back in Mexico he taught the first course of Allergology at the University of Nuevo León (nowadays UANL ) and raised money to build the first Children's Hospital in Monterrey . In 1950 he co-founded the Monterrey Football Club and joined Rotary International , a philanthropic organization he chaired worldwide in 1984 . As president of Rotary he launched an international campaign to eradicate Polio by using an aerosol Vaccination he co-developed with Albert Sabin in 1982 . Dr. Canseco has served as Nuevo León 's state secretary of health and has received honorary degrees from several universities including the Seoul National University in South Korea . On October 7 , 2004 he received the Belisario Domínguez Medal from the Mexican Senate . EXTERNAL LINK
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