Juan C. Parodi

Juan Carlos Parodi (Buenos Aires, August 16, 1942) is an Argentinian vascular surgeon, the first in the United States to perform minimally invasive aortic aneurysm surgery[1] (stent graft procedure) together with Drs. Frank Veith, Michael L. Marin and Claudio J. Schonholz.[2] He is considered a pioneer in the field of endovascular repairs of the aorta. Developer of Seat belt and air bag technique for cerebral protection during carotid stenting.[3]

Juan Parodi, is a renowned political activist and defender of measures to alleviate poverty as well as promoter of the concept of responsible procreation and education of the most economically affected sectors in Argentina.[4][5][6][7]

Biography

After receiving an MD degree at the University of Buenos Aires in 1968, Juan Parodi entered the general surgery residency in the former M. Castex Hospital which he finished in 1972. He did postgraduate fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago and following it did another one at the Cleveland Clinic with emphasis on vascular surgery. From 1975 to 1976 Parodi served as chief resident at the Cleveland Clinic and it was during that last year that he would use all his wits to develop a surgical technique that would change the future of aortic aneurysm surgery. When he became a professor, he began traveling throughout the United States and abroad. He was a visiting professor at Stanford, New York, the University of London and the University of Tokyo. He also was an honorary professor at his alma mater, University of Buenos Aires and was a professor of surgery at Wake Forest University and Washington University in St. Louis.[8]

In 1979 he returned to Argentina where he continued working on the improvement of therapeutics and in 1990 he made the first successful procedure in the world, in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1998, the procedure was published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery.[9] Juan Parodi was also a creator of the Parodi Endograft, one of the biggest innovations in the history of vascular surgery.[10]

In conjunction with the Research Chair at the University of Michigan, he undertook a work on the Argentine demographic growth, evaluating the projection of human quality in the coming years and with this base, he spoke at several conferences, which became very famous for making emphasis on the problems that hit your country hard, such as poverty and the poor education that this sector receives in Argentina.[11] He operated on Jorge Bergoglio, the man who would become the pope. Bergoglio had issues with his gall bladder.

Awards and others
  • 2002 Jacobson Innovation Award (American College of Surgeons).
  • 2003 Premio Konex: Cirugía
  • 2006 Medal for Innovation (Society for Vascular Surgery USA).
  • 2009 Grand Master of Endovascular Surgery.
  • 2000 Best inventor (Erasmo University of Rotterdam)
  • Doctor Honoris Cause of Genova University[12]

Memberships
  • Member of the American Society for Vascular Surgery
  • Member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery.
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
  • Honorary member of the Salvador University of Buenos Aires.
  • Honorary member of the German Society of Surgery.
  • Honorary member of the Greek Surgery Society.
  • Member of the Irish Society of Surgery.
  • Member of the Italian Society of Surgery.
  • Konex Foundation, Juan Carlos Parodi, Premio CIrugia 2003.

References
  1. Veith, Frank J; Marin, Michael M; Cynamon, Jacob; Schonholz, Claudio; Parodi, Juan (2005). "1992: Parodi, Montefiore, and the First Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Stent Graft in the United States". Annals of Vascular Surgery. 19 (5). doi:10.1007/s10016-005-6858-9. ISSN 0890-5096. PMID 16052384.
  2. "Claudio Schonholz, M.D." Medical University of South Carolina. Retrieved September 21, 2019.
  3. Parodi, Juan C.; Schönholz, Claudio; Ferreira, L. Mariano; Mendaro, Esteban; Ohki, Takao (2016). "'Seat Belt and Air Bag' Technique for Cerebral Protection during Carotid Stenting". Journal of Endovascular Therapy. 9 (1): 20–24. doi:10.1177/152660280200900104. PMID 11958320.
  4. "Dentro de pocos años la mayoría de los niños argentinos serán pobres, con capacidad mental disminuida y educación insuficiente" ["In a few years the majority of Argentine children will be poor, with diminished mental capacity and insufficient education"] (in Spanish). 3 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  5. "Para que los niños pobres tengan futuro hay que actuar durante el embarazo y en los 5 primeros años, después ya es tarde" (in Spanish). 6 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  6. "Audio Dr. Juan Carlos Parodi". 1 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  7. "El Doctor Juan Parodi, en Un Estilo Pinkeriano, USA Su Prestigio Para, Entre Otras Cosas, Considerar la Raza Como Un Problema y Atarlo, Tambien Como Problema, A la Pobreza". 4 March 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  8. "Juan Carlos Parodi". Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  9. Parodi, Juan Carlos (April 1995). "Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms and other arterial lesions". Journal of Vascular Surgery. 21 (4): 549–557. doi:10.1016/S0741-5214(95)70186-9.
  10. "Profile: Juan Parodi". Vascular News. 18 August 2005. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  12. Nora Bär (20 October 2012). "La Universidad de Génova distinguió a Juan Carlos Parodi" [Juan Carlos Parodi becomes University of Genoa distinguished professor] (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 September 2019.
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