Prof. Phd. Alcino Lázaro Da Silva – Former President of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery

Professor Paulo Roberto Savassi Rocha — Ex-Presidente Do Colégio Brasileiro De Cirurgia Digestiva

“…Walter de Biase SILVA-NETO 1 , Claudemiro QUIRESE 1 , Eduardo Guimarães Horneaux de MOURA 2 , Fabricio Ferreira COELHO 3 , Paulo HERMAN 3 ABSTRACT -Background: The treatment of choice for patients with schistosomiasis with previous episode of varices is bleeding esophagogastric devascularization and splenectomy (EGDS) in association with postoperative endoscopic therapy. However, studies have shown varices recurrence especially after long-term follow-up.…”

“…My first contact with Professor Paulo Roberto Savassi Rocha was in November 1983, therefore exactly 40 years ago, when I went to Belo Horizonte to participate in the Judging Committee for the defense of his doctoral thesis, at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), at the invitation of the late Professor Alcino Lázaro da Silva 1 .…”

“…For more than four decades he was a professor at the university, with intense administrative and technical-scientific activities, including: advisor professor of the Post Graduate Program in Sciences Applied to Surgery; effective member of the Board of the Post Graduate Program in Surgery; chairman of the Research Committee of the Department of Surgery; member of the Commission for the Project and Implementation of the Outpatient Surgery Sector; director of the division of Digestive Tract and Gastrointestinal Surgery supervisor of over 40 Master’s and Doctoral theses; actively participated in the training of a significant number of surgeons and residents in General Surgery and Digestive System; author of more than 30 scientific books on topics in Gastroenterology, Fundamentals of Clinical Surgery, Surgical Emergencies, Complications in Surgery of the Digestive Tract; Enthusiastic about the use of videosurgery since its inception in the 1990s, he was one of the first surgeons in the country to publish the experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy 3 , 4 , 5 . …”

“…Enthusiastic about the use of videosurgery since its inception in the 1990s, he was one of the first surgeons in the country to publish the experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy 3 , 4 , 5 .…”

“…I cannot fail to mention that his main literary reference is João Guimarães Rosa, from Minas Gerais, whom he considers the greatest of all writers, the great genius of literature. Savassi Rocha is an ardent “Rosean” 1 !…”