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Alfredo Jadresic

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Jadresic and the second or maternal family name is Vargas.
Alfredo Jadresic at his vacation house at Tunquén (Chile), November 2005

Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine.[1] As a high jumper he competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics,[2] and placed ninth.[3]

Personal life

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Jadresic was born in Iquique in September 1925. He came from a family of Croatian (Dalmatian) origin.[4] He died in Santiago on 1 October 2021, at the age of 96.[5] According to another source[1] the date was 30 September.

Medical career

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Jadresic got his Doctorate in medicine and was a professor of medicine at the University of Chile, and then Dean of Medicine from 1968 to 1972.[6] In September 1973, after the coup d'état, he was arrested and spent 51 days in the National Stadium of Chile. He was released with no charges, but was forced to leave the country. He spent his exile in the Royal Sussex Hospital in Hastings, England. When democracy was restored he returned to Chile,[7] where he specialized in endocrinology at the University of Chile. [8][9][10] [11][12] Jadresic gave an account of his career and life in a book published in 2007.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dr. Alfredo Jadresic Vargas Obituary". soched.cl. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alfredo Jadresic". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Alfredo Jadresic Vargas".
  4. ^ "Čileanski pisci hrvatskog porijekla" [Chilean writers of Croatian origin].
  5. ^ "Universidad de Chile despide al médico y profesor emérito Alfredo Jadresic - Universidad de Chile". uchile.cl. October 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  6. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo (1973). "La Facultad de Medicina en el periodo 1968-1972. Memoria del Decanato" [The Faculty of Medicine in the period 1968–1872. Deanery Report]. Rev. Méd. Chile (in Spanish). 101: 787.
  7. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo (1980). "Doctors and torture: an experience as a prisoner". J. Med. Ethics. 6 (3): 124–127. doi:10.1136/jme.6.3.124. PMC 1154821. PMID 7420381.
  8. ^ Jadresic V., A; Poblete, M; Reid, A; Riera, Melchor; Matus, Aurora; Herreros, María (1965). "Therapeutic Hypopituitarism Induced by Stereotaxic Transfrontal Implantation of Yttrium-90 in Patients with Breast Cancer". J. Clin. Endocrinol. 25 (5): 686–697. doi:10.1210/jcem-25-5-686. PMID 14313763.
  9. ^ Jadresic, A; Poblete, M (1967). "Stereotaxic pituitary implantation of yttrium-90 and iridium-192 for acromegaly". J. Clin. Endocrinol. 27 (10): 1503–1507. doi:10.1210/jcem-27-10-1503. PMID 4862202.
  10. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo; Ojeda, César; Pérez, Gilberto (2002). Psiconeuroendocrinología [Psychoendocrinology] (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Mediterraneo. ISBN 978-956-220-174-2.
  11. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo; Banks, L M; Child, D F (1982). "The acromegaly syndrome — relation between clinical features, growth hormone values and radiological characteristic of the pituitary tumours". Q. J. Med. 51: 189.
  12. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo (1983). "Recent developments in acromegaly: a review". J. R. Soc. Med. 76 (11): 947–956. doi:10.1177/014107688307601112. PMC 1439630. PMID 6138432.
  13. ^ Jadresic, Alfredo (2007). Historia de Chile en la vida de un médico. Santiago: Catalonia. ISBN 978-956-8303-65-5.
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