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World renowned Plastic Surgeon Ivo Pitanguy passed away on 6 August at the age of 93 just a day after carrying the Olympic torch for the Rio Games.

Read on to learn about the life of this giant of the field, based on an interview from a few years before his death.

Ivo Pitanguy, MD, was born in in Minais Gerais, Brazil. The son of a general surgeon, Pitanguy followed in his father’s footsteps.

He studied under JJ Longacre, MD, of Cincinnati; Marc Iselin, MD, of Paris; and Sir Archibald McIndoe and his cousin, Sir Harold Gillies, in the United Kingdom.

Upon his return to Brazil, Pitanguy set up the first hand-surgery service in Latin America at the 19th Infirmary at the Santa Casa General Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

He also became the head of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In , Pitanguy opened the 38th Infirmary Santa Casa de Misericórdia Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Rio de