{"id":5190,"date":"2023-10-01T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2023-11-07T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:51:00","slug":"professor-paulo-roberto-savassi-rocha-former-president-of-the-brazilian-college-of-digestive-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistaabcd.org.br\/pt-br\/professor-paulo-roberto-savassi-rocha-former-president-of-the-brazilian-college-of-digestive-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFESSOR PAULO ROBERTO SAVASSI ROCHA - FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE BRAZILIAN COLLEGE OF DIGESTIVE SURGERY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 L\u00e1zaro da Silva1<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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As I didn\u2019t know the candidate, I requested Professor Alcino to ask him to send me a summary of his Curriculum Vitae, so that I could know who the Post graduate student was, author of the work I was going to analyze.<\/p>\n

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I must confess that I was impressed with his publications and two edited books. He was a surgeon who was already qualified and linked to the University.<\/p>\n

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The thesis, entitled Determination of the optimal points for resection of ischemic intestinal loops by \u201cDopplerometry, Thermometry and Fluoresceinoscopy: Experimental study in dogs\u201d, analyzed a topic \u2014 intestinal ischemia and extensive resections \u2014 in which I was very interested2<\/sup><\/span>. Once again, I was impressed with the clarity and didactics in the presentation of the work, as well as with the security and propriety in the answers to the formulated questions.<\/p>\n

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During the flight back to S\u00e3o Paulo, in the company of Doctor Emil Burihan, Full Professor of Vascular Surgery at Escola Paulista de Medicina, now Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Paulo (UNIFESP), also a member of the Judging Committee, we talked about the candidate and the thesis argument and concluded that we were witnessing the birth of a future great professor at UFMG.<\/p>\n

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Doctor Paulo Roberto Savassi Rocha is a\u00a0mineiro<\/i>\u00a0in heart and soul and, like any good\u00a0mineiro<\/i>, enchanted by his land, its history, and its values. He graduated from UFMG in 1969.<\/p>\n

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After graduation, he worked for a period as an assistant to Professor Mahrdas Salvador Nankran, a renowned surgeon from Belo Horizonte, who contributed a lot to his training and growth. He then took the exam, being admitted as a resident of General Surgery at the Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas of UFMG, in Belo Horizonte. After completing the residency program, he took another exam, this time joining as Teaching Instructor of the Surgery Service. He then enrolled in the Postgraduate Course (stricto sensu<\/i>), defended his thesis and had a rapid and fulminant evolution in his academic career, reaching the position of Full Professor of Surgery in 1991.<\/p>\n

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Its trajectory is very rich. In a short period of time, he became a well-known surgeon throughout Brazil. He is a constant figure in the most important surgical events, with dozens and dozens of lectures both in the country and abroad, being invited to numerous participations in examining committees of postgraduate theses and competitions in the academic career in several institutions in the country.<\/p>\n

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For more than four decades he was a professor at the university, with intense administrative and technical-scientific activities, including:<\/p>\n