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Professor Emeritus - Dr. Jorge Segovia
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Dr. Jorge Segovia graduated with a doctor of medicine degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires in 1959 and completed a master's of public health at that school in 1961. With a Milbank Faculty Fellowship he then pursued postgraduate studies in medical sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He held faculty positions at the University of Buenos Aires, Columbia University and the University of Campinas (Brazil) before being appointed as associate professor of social medicine in the Division of Community Medicine at Memorial University in 1976. He become professor in 1983 and served as associate dean between 1991-96. Dr. Segovia is the principal investigator of the Health and Medical Care Research Group, which has received funding from the National Health Research and Development Program over a 15-year period to study the influence of demographic, socio-economic, and health status variables on medical care utilization in Newfoundland.
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