Ivo Pitanguy

Ivo Helcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy ( born July 5, 1926 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is one of the pioneers of plastic surgery.

Life

Ivo Pitanguy grew up as one of five children of the surgeon Antonio de Campos and Marie de Staël Jardim. He studied medicine at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. A scholarship enabled him to 1948-1949 training at John Longacre from Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. During this time he also operated at Marquis Converse in New York. He was the first representative of Hand Surgery in South America and worked at the Santa Casa de Misericordia in Rio de Janeiro. From 1950 to 1951 he formed at Marc Iselin in Suresnes, France on, which was famous for its treatment of wounds in World War II. Through another grant from the British Council, he was able to work in London with Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe.

In 1952 he worked at the Hospital Souza Aguiar and then became a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católico in Rio de Janeiro. In 1963 he founded the eponymous private hospital Clinica Ivo Pitanguy.

He has trained about 500 plastic surgeons and written about 800 publications in professional journals.

In 1955 he married Marilu Nascimento and the couple have four children.

Honors, inter alia,

Works

• Aesthetic Plastic Surgery of Head and Body, Springer, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York 1981, ISBN 0387087060