Alexandru Pesamosca (March 14, 1930–September 1, 2011) was a

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and

pediatrician Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

, medic at the Marie Sklodovska-Curie (former Budimex) Hospital in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

. He was the leading surgeon for over 50,000 medical surgeries on children at this hospital and other medical facilities in Romania and outside the country. He was born in

Constanța Constanța (, ; ; rup, Custantsa; bg, Кюстенджа, Kyustendzha, or bg, Констанца, Konstantsa, label=none; el, Κωνστάντζα, Kōnstántza, or el, Κωνστάντια, Kōnstántia, label=none; tr, Köstence), histo ...

, the son of an officer in the Romanian Royal Navy. He studied at the Mircea cel Bătrân High School in his native city, graduating in 1948. He then went to Bucharest to study at the

Faculty of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

, obtaining his MD degree in 1954. Pesamosca was the patron of the Cuviosul Stelian și Sfântul Nicolae-Brâncoveanu Church built in the backyard of the hospital. In the summer of 2011 he was hospitalized at the

Floreasca Hospital Floreasca Hospital ( ro, Spitalul Clinic de Urgență București Floreasca) is a major hospital in Bucharest, Romania. The hospital is specialized in providing emergency medical care. History The Floreasca Hospital is the first institution in Roma ...

for cardiac and renal problems. He died there on 1 September 2011, aged 81 and was buried in the courtyard of the Marie Curie Hospital.

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1930 births 2011 deaths People from Constanța Romanian people of Italian descent Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy alumni 20th-century Romanian people Romanian surgeons Romanian pediatricians Deaths from kidney failure Mircea cel Bătrân National College (Constanța) alumni {{Romania-med-bio-stub