Ivo Pitanguy
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Ivo Pitanguy (b. 1926 in Belo Horizonte Brazil) is a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Pitanguy studied at the Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, where he worked with John Longacre. Soon after, Pitanguy went to France and England where he studied plastic surgery under early pioneers of the field.
In 1953 he began working at a Brazilian hospital performing plastic surgeries. On December 17, 1961, a burning circus tent fell on 2,500 spectators in the Brazilian city of Niterói, and Pitanguy worked tirelessly to treat burn victims for weeks on an emergency basis. He later referred to the event as life changing, as it taught him that for many, physical appearance was critical to living. Dr. Pitanguy founded a private clinic called Clinica Ivo Pitanguy in the Botafogo section of Rio de Janeiro where he operates on VIPs and trains young surgeons.
Pitanguy is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine.
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- Joseph A. Page (1995), The Brazilians. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-201-44191-8.
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