Oscar IVANISSEVICH

Background

IVANISSEVICH, Oscar was born on August 5, 1895 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Education

Educated medical. school, University Nacional dc Buenos Aires, 1911-1918. Dr. honoris causa, University de Sâo Paulo, Brazil, 1945.

Career

Head of surgical clinic practice, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1919-1934, associate professor., 1932-1941, professor., 1942-1946. Chief surgeon, Hospital Argentino de Zárate, 1919. Chief of out-patient clinic, Hospital de Clínicas, 1921-1929, ward head, 1921-1938.

Staff member, Institute de Clínica Quirúrgica, 1926-1929, clinic head, 1930, assistant, director, 1939-1941, director since 1942. Vice-president, Pan American Science Confederation, 1941. Invited to Stanford University, United States of America, to inaugurate continental program of interchange of scientists, 1943.

Ambassador to United States, 1946-1948. Argentine representative to Pan American Union, 1947-1948. Minister of public edn., since 1948.

Officer, Del Mérito, Chile. Grand officer, Sol del Perú. Honorary professor., University Mayor de San Andrés (La Paz) and University Simón Bolívar de Cochabamba (Bolivia).

Membership

Member constituent convention, province of Buenos Aires, 1934. Member: Academy Argentina de Cirugía (ex-president), American College, of Surgeons, Society de Cirugía de Buenos Aires, International Surgical Society, Surgical Society of Los Angeles (United States of America). Member Academy Peruana de Cirugía, Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgiâos.

Member Society de Cirugía Juárez (Mexico), Society de Cirugía de Montevideo, Academy Nacional de Cirurgia (Brazil).

Connections

Father:

Antonio Ivanissevich

Mother:

Elena Defilippis

Spouse:

Maria Esther López Cabanillas

child:

Mary IVANISSEVICH

child:

Elena IVANISSEVICH

child:

Willy IVANISSEVICH