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Dr. Ivo Pitanguy – Brazil

Dr. Ivo Helcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy, commonly known as Dr. Ivo Pitanguy, is an 88 year-oldman that has been through a lot in order to reach the level he’s at the present time. Dr. Pitanguy studied at the Bethesda North Hospital in Connecticut and then traveled toEurope to learn plastic surgery, the medical field that eventually defined his life. He then moved back to Brazil and in 1961 treated hundreds of burn victims after a circus tent burned down. Dr. Pitanguy currently works at his private clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Clinica Ivo Pitanguy, where he trains other surgeons and performs the surgeries.