He completed his secondary studies in the cities of Cuzco and Lima; He then traveled to France, where he pursued a career in medicine at the University of Paris until graduating as a physician in 1935.

[1] He worked in Paris at the Dejerine Foundation, from 1930 to 1935, with Professor Jean Lhermitte, under whose direction with F. Masquin they published the book Précis d'anatomo-physiologie normale et pathologique du système nerveux.

He revalidated his degree at the University of San Marcos by presenting a thesis on "Protuberance Softening", which won the award from the National Academy of Medicine.

Almost immediately he began working at the asylum for incurables "El Refugio" in which he created the first neurological hospital in Peru, called Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, of which he was director (1940–1974).

He served as Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance, in the first ministerial cabinet of President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, from July 28, 1945, to January 23, 1946.