In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Jadresic and the second or maternal family name is Vargas.
Alfredo Jadresic at his vacation house at Tunquén (Chile), November 2005
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[1] 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 was 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]
^Jadresic, Alfredo (1973). "La Facultad de Medicina en el periodo 1968-1972. Memoria del Decanato" [The Faculty of Medicine in the period 1968–1872. Deanery Report]. Rev. Méd. Chile (in Spanish). 101: 787.
^Jadresic V., A; Poblete, M; Reid, A; Riera, Melchor; Matus, Aurora; Herreros, María (1965). "Therapeutic Hypopituitarism Induced by Stereotaxic Transfrontal Implantation of Yttrium-90 in Patients with Breast Cancer". J. Clin. Endocrinol. 25 (5): 686–697. doi:10.1210/jcem-25-5-686. PMID14313763.
^Jadresic, A; Poblete, M (1967). "Stereotaxic pituitary implantation of yttrium-90 and iridium-192 for acromegaly". J. Clin. Endocrinol. 27 (10): 1503–1507. doi:10.1210/jcem-27-10-1503. PMID4862202.
^Jadresic, Alfredo; Banks, L M; Child, D F (1982). "The acromegaly syndrome — relation between clinical features, growth hormone values and radiological characteristic of the pituitary tumours". Q. J. Med. 51: 189.
