Davide Giordano

Davide Giordano (22 March 1864 Courmayeur – 1 February 1954 Venice) was an Italian surgeon historian of medicine and politician.

He came from a Waldensian family originally from Torre Pellice, the son of Giacomo and Susetta Hugon.

He was president of Ateneo Veneto, Venice's Institute of Science, Literature and Arts, multiple times (1919 - 1921, 1925 - 1929, 1938 - 1942).[1] He is noted for the proposition of the transglebellar-nasal approach to pituitary surgery, which was first practiced in 1909 in a patient with pituitary adenoma.[2]

He was the head of a surgical department at a hospital in Venice from 1894 to 1934. During World War I, he was a consultant surgeon in the Third Army.

He was among the promoters of the Italian Society of the History of Medicine and he became its second president from 1923 to 1938.[3] He was also president of the International Society for the History of Medicine from 1930 to 1936.[4]


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References

  1. ^ "Presidents". The Ateneo Veneto Cultural Institute in Venice. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  2. ^ Artico, M.; Pastore, F. S.; Fraioli, B.; Giuffrè, R. (April 1998). "The contribution of Davide Giordano (1864-1954) to pituitary surgery: the transglabellar-nasal approach". Neurosurgery. 42 (4): 909–911, discussion 911–912. doi:10.1097/00006123-199804000-00121. hdl:2108/70930. ISSN 0148-396X. PMID 9574656.
  3. ^ See: http://sism.wikidot.com/i-presidenti
  4. ^ See: http://ishm.wikidot.com/past-presidents



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