He was born in the city of Matanzas in 1936. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine at the University of Havana in 1962. He performed the Rural Medical Service in the province of Camagüey. In 1966 he received the title of Nutrition Specialist, after completing the Pediatrics Residency. In 1984 he obtained the degree of Doctor in Medical Sciences at the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Soviet Union, as well as the category of Titular Researcher at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. He was the founder of the Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene of Cuba.

Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene of Cuba.

It was created by Resolution 55 of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba on December 21, 1976. But it did not emerge in the scientific-technical arena as an institution of research and training of human resources in its specialty until September 1984. From its beginnings, its purposes and objectives were to develop the basic aspects of community nutrition, food and nutritional surveillance, diagnosis of the nutritional status of the population and essential aspects of clinical nutrition, which together with food hygiene, were the fundamental pillars for the development and progress of the institution as a Research Center in the context of the Ministry of Public Health of the country.