Alfredo Jadresic Explained

Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine.[1] As a high jumper he competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics,[2] and placed ninth.[3]

Personal life

Jadresic was born in Iquique in September 1925. He came from a family of Croatian (Dalmatian) origin.[4] He died in Santiago on 1 October 2021, at the age of 96.[5] According to another source the date was 30 September.

Medical career

Jadresic got his Doctorate in medicine and was a professor of medicine at the University of Chile, and then Dean of Medicine from 1968 to 1972.[6] In September 1973, after the coup d'état, he was arrested and spent 51 days in the National Stadium of Chile. He was released with no charges, but forced to leave the country. He spent his exile in the Royal Sussex Hospital in Hastings, England. When democracy was restored he returned to Chile,[7] where he specialized in endocrinology at the University of Chile.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Jadresic gave an account of his career and life in a book published in 2007.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: October 1, 2021 . Dr. Alfredo Jadresic Vargas Obituary . 2023-12-29 . soched.cl.
  2. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/alfredo-jadresic-1.html . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084020/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/alfredo-jadresic-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 1 July 2016.
  3. Web site: Alfredo Jadresic Vargas.
  4. Web site: Čileanski pisci hrvatskog porijekla. Chilean writers of Croatian origin.
  5. Web site: Universidad de Chile despide al médico y profesor emérito Alfredo Jadresic - Universidad de Chile . uchile.cl . October 2021 . 2 October 2021 . en.
  6. Jadresic. Alfredo. La Facultad de Medicina en el periodo 1968-1972. Memoria del Decanato. Spanish. The Faculty of Medicine in the period 1968–1872. Deanery Report. Rev. Méd. Chile . 101. 787. 1973.
  7. 10.1136/jme.6.3.124 . Jadresic. Alfredo. Doctors and torture: an experience as a prisoner. J. Med. Ethics. 6. 124–127. 1980. 3. 7420381. 1154821.
  8. 10.1210/jcem-25-5-686. Jadresic V.. A. Therapeutic Hypopituitarism Induced by Stereotaxic Transfrontal Implantation of Yttrium-90 in Patients with Breast Cancer. Poblete . M. Reid . A. Melchor . Riera. Aurora . Matus. María. Herreros. J. Clin. Endocrinol.. 25. 686–697. 1965. 5. 14313763.
  9. 10.1210/jcem-27-10-1503. Jadresic . A. Poblete . M . Stereotaxic pituitary implantation of yttrium-90 and iridium-192 for acromegaly. J. Clin. Endocrinol.. 27. 1503–1507 . 1967. 10 . 4862202 .
  10. Book: 978-956-220-174-2. Jadresic. Alfredo. Ojeda. César. Pérez. Gilberto. Psiconeuroendocrinología. Spanish. Psychoendocrinology. Mediterraneo. 2002. Santiago, Chile.
  11. Jadresic. Alfredo. Banks. L M. Child. D F. The acromegaly syndrome — relation between clinical features, growth hormone values and radiological characteristic of the pituitary tumours. Q. J. Med.. 51 . 189. 1982.
  12. 10.1177/014107688307601112. Jadresic. Alfredo. Recent developments in acromegaly: a review. J. R. Soc. Med.. 76. 947–956. 1983. 11. 6138432. 1439630.
  13. Book: 978-956-8303-65-5 . Jadresic, Alfredo . Historia de Chile en la vida de un médico . 2007 . Catalonia . Santiago.

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