José N. Gándara

Dr. José N. Gándara Cartagena
Born	26 August 1907 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Died	11 October 1954 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Nationality	Puerto Rican
Occupation	Physician, public servant

Dr. José Narciso Gándara Cartagena (1907–1954) was a Puerto Rican physician and public servant. He led medical personnel in the treatment of the hundreds of wounded of the Ponce Massacre that occurred on Palm Sunday, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, at the hands of the Insular Police, under orders of the American colonial governor Blanton Winship. He also provided expert witness testimony regarding the Puerto Rican Nationalists victims being shot on their backs while they ran away from the police, and that many were wounded by the police using their clubs and bare fists.

José N. Gándara Cartagena was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on 26 August 1907. He was the son of Manuel Gándara and Mercedes Cartagena Gandara graduated from Ponce High School in 1925. After this, he went to college graduating from the Long Island College of Medicine in 1933 and did his intership in the Ponce Presbyterian Hospital the next year. In 1934-1936 he worked as a resident physician at the Clinica Quirurgia del Dr. Pila. He continued his medical lifelong training at the New York Policlinic Medical Hospital. In 1949, he also studied at the Instituto de Cardiología de México.

As a physician, Gándara specialized in internal medicine, radiology and cardiology. He practiced in Ponce from 1933 to 1942. Gándara was a member of the Puerto Rico Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Society Against Diabetes, in addition to holding membership in other numerous civic and professional organizations in Puerto Rico.

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