Mario Zaritzky (born December 16, 1956, in

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, Argentina) is MD, scientist and inventor and currently lives and works as an associate professor of Radiology at Jackson Memorial Center. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Radiology Department of Radiology,

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in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zaritzky coordinated the Argentine Network of Science in Midwestern, United States, from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Programme of Argentina.

Training

He graduated as a doctor in 1980 at the

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in Argentina, and obtained certification as a specialist in pediatric surgery in 1987 and Pediatric Radiology, 1998, College of Medicine,

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Province, Argentina. He worked as surgeon and later as medical and interventional radiologist at the Children's Hospital " Sor María Ludovica" of the city of

, from 1980 to 2004. From 2004 to 2006 was instructor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. And from 2007 to the present he serves as assistant professor in the same department.

Medicine with magnets

Creator of a method for repairing congenital malformations of the esophagus through magnetos without the traditional use of surgery whose original idea has been characterized as revolutionary. By this procedure became Annalise Dapo April 2015 in the first patient in the United States have their corrected without

Esophageal atresia Esophageal atresia is a congenital medical condition (birth defect) that affects the alimentary tract. It causes the esophagus to end in a blind-ended pouch rather than connecting normally to the stomach. It comprises a variety of congenital anat ...

surgery. Dapo was born with a long gap esophageal atresia, missing a third of her esophagus. This congenital defect is common, occurring in about 1 in 2500 infants. Surgery was the traditional repair mechanism problem, until Zaritzky, developed this method based on magnets.

Private life

He is married and has two children. He currently resides in the City of

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Publications

He has published 14 refereed scientific articles, 13 book chapters, 14 have been invited speaker at over 100 conferences, held 28 oral presentations, posters, and has two patents (use of magnets for the repair of esophageal atresia, US. 7,282,057 B2, October 2007 and US 2013/0226205 A1 August 2013)

References

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