Dr. Domingo Campillo Valero, neurosurgeon and paleopathologist, passed away last Saturday, April 17, at the age of 93. He served as a member of the jury of the Uriach Foundation Prize for “History of Medicine” on multiple occasions and was the author of the two volumes on paleopathology in our Historical Collection of Health Sciences.
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1951, he specialized in Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Psychiatry, and earned his PhD in Medicine and Surgery in 1974. He was Head of the Department of Surgery and Neurosurgery at Quinta de Salut l’Aliança, in the Central Hospital of Barcelona, and professor of Paleoanthropology and History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
As a researcher, he developed his work at the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia, where in 1971 he founded the Laboratory of Paleoanthropology and Paleopathology, becoming its director until 2009. He also served as president of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery and was a founding member of the Catalan-Balearic Association of Paleopathology.
Dr. Campillo was an international reference in this field of study thanks to his research and teaching, as well as for the innovations he introduced into the discipline.