Jorge Abraham Hazoury

Similarly, he began the Residency in Diabetology and Nutrition in 1988 and the Residence of Ophthalmology in 1991. Both with operations in the INDEN and from which have come notable Dominican and foreign specialists.

Hazoury founded Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) on 12 July 1982, as a result of the initiative expressed by the Ibero-American Cooperation Institute and a steering committee in the Dominican Republic. Hazoury was its first Rector until 1991, with an enrollment that surpasses at present the 5,000 students and 20,640 graduates.

With a vision of the future and aware of the need to protect Diabetics, Hazoury founded on 9 November 1966 the Dominican Diabetes Society (SODODIA) and the Diabetes Control Board in 1972. As a dependency of the Board of Trustees, in 1979 he created the National Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition (INDEN), to offer medical services to the most needy classes in the country. Through various efforts, the writing of scientific articles and the benefit of marathons performed inside and outside the country, managed to inaugurate in 1983 the School for Diabetics Hospital where it offers all the specialties of Medicine to the Dominican diabetics. In 2004 this school was given the name of Dr. Hazoury Bahlés in recognition of his years of struggle against diabetes.

Jorge Abraham Hazoury Bahlés (Barahona, 20 August 1924 – Santo Domingo, 18 September 2004) was a Dominican endocrinologist, diabetologist and humanist. He was the founder of the Ibero-American University (UNIBE).

Jorge Abraham Hazoury Bahlés was born to Lebanese parents in Barahona on 20 August 1924, wherein he had elementary and secondary studies. He graduated from Medicine in 1950 at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.