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Dr. Juan Carlos Parodi
Juan Parodi was led to a career in surgery through his own interest and family influence - his uncle was a surgeon. In 1960, he began his medical training at the Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina. From 1975 to 1976, Parodi served as chief resident at the Cleveland Clinic, where Professor Alfred Humphries and Edwin Beven became two significant mentors in his career. During that last year, 1976, he committed all his wits to develop a new minimally invasive surgical technique that would change the future of the then-infant specialty of vascular surgery, particularly for aortic aneurysm surgery.