Ivo Pitanguy

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Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy (born 1926 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro.

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.

In 1953 he began working at a Brazilian hospital. On December 17, 1961, a burning circus tent fell on 2,500 spectators in the Brazilian city of Niterói. Pitanguy treated 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.^{[citation needed]} Pitanguy founded a private clinic called Clínica Ivo Pitanguy in the Botafogo section of Rio de Janeiro where he operates on clients and trains surgeons.

Pitanguy is also a philanthropist. He renovated a ward at the public Santa Casa da Misericórdia Hospital in Rio where, for four decades, he has offered treatment for free.

Pitanguy is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine.

The Pitanguy clinic in Rio also includes an auditorium and library for Pitanguy's lectures and writings for medical students.

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• Ivo Pitanguy Clinic