Albino Marco Aurelio Perosio

Professor Dr. Albino Marco Aurelio Perosio (15/1/1924-2/5/2001). Renowned Argentine cardiologist. He completed his primary and secondary studies in the school La Salle of Buenos Aires. He was formed in the stimulating academic climate of the Hospital de Clínicas of the city of Buenos Aires. In 1951 and 1952 he was one of the first Medical Residents of Medical Clinic of the country, in a time in which the whole system of Residencies was newly in gestation.

He was the creator (with Dr. José Burucúa) of one of the first laboratories of Hemodynamics in Argentina, in the Institute of Semiology of the Hospital de Clínicas, and he was a pioneer in the development and diffusion in our country of Phonomecanocardiography, the mother discipline of non-invasive diagnostic techniques in Cardiology.

In 1987 he resigned from the position of Full Professor of the 6th Chair of Medicine, a position for which he strove his entire life, in disagreement with the prevailing university policies.

In the Argentine Society of Cardiology he had an intense participation that culminated with his presidential term in 1971 and his role as Vice-president of the VIII World Congress of Cardiology held in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.