Alberto Crescenti Explained

Alberto Crescenti
Specialism:	Emergency medicine
Birth Date:	1 May 1953
Work Institutions:	SAME

Alberto Félix Crescenti is an Argentine emergency medical doctor, known for directing the SAME, the Buenos Aires city public emergency medical services system.^{[1] [2]} He majored in medicine in 1979 from the University of Buenos Aires. He directed the public EMS system in Buenos Aires between 1992 and 1997, and has been directing it again since 2006.^[3]

He was in charge of difficult operations such as the 1994 AMIA bombing, the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, the Castelar 2013 rail disaster, and the 2014 Iron Mountain fire.^[4] He was also part of the LAPA Flight 3142 and the República Cromañón nightclub fire rescue operations, despite not being head of SAME at those times.

On August 13, 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Personality distinction by the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

References

1. Web site: Alberto Crescenti. August 13, 2020. Konex Foundation.
2. News: August 13, 2020. La Legislatura porteña declaró "Personalidad Destacada" al doctor Alberto Crescenti. es-AR. The Buenos Aires Legislature declared Dr. Alberto Crescenti "Outstanding Personality". Infobae.
3. Web site: Dirección General Sistema de Atención Médica de Emergencia (S.A.M.E.). General Direction of the Emergency Medical Care System (S.A.M.E.). August 13, 2020. Buenos Aires city government.
4. News: August 13, 2020. Alberto Crescenti fue declarado personalidad destacada de la Ciudad. es-AR. Alberto Crescenti was declared an outstanding personality of the City. Clarín. Buenos Aires. August 13, 2020.