Ramon Guiteras

Ramon Guiteras
Born	(1858-08-17)August 17, 1858 Bristol, Rhode Island
Died	December 13, 1917(1917-12-13) (aged 59) New York, New York
Burial place	Juniper Hill Cemetery
Education	Harvard College Harvard Medical School
Occupation	Surgeon
Family	Juan Guiteras (cousin)

William H. DeWolf – Ramon Guiteras House, home to Guiteras after the Civil War in 1866

Guiteras Memorial School in Bristol; closed in 2025

Ramon Guiteras (August 17, 1858 – December 13, 1917) was a pioneering surgeon who specialized in urology and founded the American Urological Association.

Early life and education

He was born in Bristol, Rhode Island, and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He was the cousin of Juan Guiteras, the noted Cuban doctor.

He became an officer in the United States Army National Guard, and served as the assistant surgeon for the Second Battery of Artillery, First Brigade of the New York Army National Guard, where he was promoted to first lieutenant on May 9, 1890. He was honorably discharged on July 26, 1893 as a captain. He also served 1881–1883 in the Boston Cadets.

Death and legacy

Guiteras died in New York City on December 13, 1917. He is buried in Juniper Hill Cemetery in Bristol.

In his will he left $350,000 to build a school in Bristol to honor his mother. The resulting Guiteras Memorial School was designed by Wallis E. Howe in 1925, on Hope Street at Silver Creek. The Guiteras Memorial School closed in 2025 due to declining enrollment and maintenance costs.

The American Urological Association has an annual award named after him for the individual who is deemed to have made outstanding contributions to the art and science of urology.

Guiteras was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2009.

Publications

• Guiteras, Ramon (1912). Urology: The Diseases of the Urinary Tract in Men and Women, a Book for Practitioners and Students. New York: D. Appleton and Company. ISBN 9781461254768. OCLC 493821057. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Volume 1 and Volume 2 (of two).

References

Further reading

• "Ramon Guiteras (1858–1917) Founder of the AUA". 2018 Erecting Giants History Brochure. American Urological Association. p. 15. Retrieved March 25, 2020 – via Issuu.
• "Miss Gertrude Guiteras Dies After Long Illness". Bristol Phoenix. Vol. 103, no. 104. December 31, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2020. Obituary for his sister.
• Carons, Akinwunmi; Paoli, Michele; Waldbaum, Robert. "History of the New York Section and the Foundation of American Urological Association (AUA)". American Urological Association. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
• Cutter, William Richard (ed.). "Guiteras, and Allied Families". Encyclopedia of Massachusetts. Vol. 7: Biographical—Genealogical. New York, Chicago: The American Historical Society. pp. 231–232. Retrieved March 25, 2020. Guiteras' genealogy.
• Hedley, Fenwick Y. (January 1918). "Ramon Guiteras". Americana. Vol. 12, no. 1. Plate after p. 8; pp. 9–13. OCLC 865776116. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
• Korr, Mary (March 2015). "Ramon Guiteras, MD: Surgeon, Statesman, Big-Game Hunter" (PDF). Rhode Island Medical Journal. 98 (3): 62–63. ISSN 2327-2228. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
• Reiss, Harry (January 1980). "Ramon Guiteras (1858–1917)". Investigative Urology. 17 (4): 356–357. ISSN 0021-0005. OCLC 1753823. PMID 6985887. Bibliographic information only.
• Wolbarst, A. L. (October 1946). "Reminiscence of Ramon Guiteras and the Formation of the American Urological Association". The Urologic and Cutaneous Review. 50 (10): 642. PMID 20279607.

External links

English Wikisource has original text related to this article:

American Medical Biographies, "Guiteras, Ramon Benjamin"

• Ramon Guiteras at Find a Grave
• Ramon Guiteras Award at the American Urological Association