Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez

Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez (December 29, 1947 – May 21, 2012) was a Spanish military surgeon who held the rank of a General de División Médico and served as the surgeon general of the Spanish armed medical service, called the Inspector General de Sanidad de la Defensa.

Montero was born in Palencia. He joined the army in the rank of a Teniente (MC) in 1972 and held several assignments in the Central Military Hospital "Gómez Ulla". In May 2012, while participating a special NATO medical officials conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, Montero Vázquez died suddenly of heart failure. He was 64.