Professor Ioan Pop de Popa (1927-2021)

On April 30, 2021, a great personality of Romanian surgery passed away, unanimously considered the creator of modern cardiovascular surgery in our country. After him remains an impressive work and will certainly remain the genesis of the specialty of Cardiovascular Surgery, which he mastered.
A remarkable fact remains the establishment of the Romanian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (since 2002 with its own publication "Romanian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery"), the Center for Cardiovascular Diseases Bucharest (Fundeni) and the six heart surgery centers in university medical centers, including one in Bucharest military medicine.
This whole network is and will be served by the 160 Romanian specialists who were trained in his clinic, first of all professors Vasile Cândea, Ion Socoteanu, Mircea Bârsan, Grigore Tinică, Mircea Pătrut, but also many other highly specialized primary care physicians who work in the country or abroad.
He also specialized 11 surgeons from abroad, others showed him distinct respect where he practiced this difficult specialty in Europe or on other continents. He was born on October 6, 1927 in Oradea, the particle "de" in his name being used by some families in Transylvania to indicate the origin of the family, its ancestry. His father, a teacher, was also called Ioan Pop de Popa, and his mother's name was Lucretia, they had four children, all with a very good education. Ioan Pop de Popa, the son, attended primary school in Oradea, then started high school also in Oradea at "Emanoil Gojdu" and graduated from "Samuil Vulcan" in Beius where the family had moved. In 1944, as a student, he volunteered in the Apuseni Mountains for liberation. He studied brilliantly at the Faculty of Medicine in Cluj (1946-1952), which he graduated with "Magna cum laudae".
As a student and then intern, he was a trainer in Anatomy, between 1949-1952, then he promoted assistant to Surgery in the First Clinic of the intransigent professor Aurel Nana, raised on the ascending golden vein of Pop Alexandru, Iacobovici, Toma Ionescu. From a young age he had an innovative spirit, being passionate about novelties, inventions, progress.

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