At the School of Medicine of Montevideo, he was instructor of Physiology (1942-1947), Assistant Professor of Physiology (1948), Associate Professor of Physiology (1950), Head of the Department of Obstetrical Physiology (1959), and Professor and Chairman of Physiology (until 1965).
In 1950, he recorded for the first time intramiometrial pressure in different parts of the uterus during labor, defining the pattern of normal uterine contractility having a "triple descendant gradient".