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Plastic surgery: personal recollections, contributions, and some thoughts: the ohmori lecture: 18th I.s.a.p.s. Congress, rio de janeiro-2006.

Pitanguy I

Clinica Ivo Pitanguy, Rua dona Mariana 65, Botafogo, Rio De Janeiro, 22280-020, Brazil, pitanguy@pitanguy.com.

Professor Ivo Pitanguy is Head Professor of the Plastic Surgery Departments of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the Carlos Chagas Institute of Postgraduate Medical Studies. He also is a member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Brazilian Academy of Letters, as well as Visiting Professor of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). He is a Fellow of the American and the International College of Surgeons (FICS, FACS). He also is the Honorary President of the Alumni Association of Professor Ivo Pitanguy, and has recently been declared the Patron of Plastic Surgery in Brazil through a unanimous vote by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery.

Published 20 November 2007 in Aesthetic Plast Surg, 31(6): 619-35.
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