Al Gore pass the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984. In addition to his clinical work, Salvatierra helped then-Rep. Salvatierra was, in Gesundheit’s words, “a good doctor, teacher and scientist who was also a humanist.” He added, “I never saw a cynical side to him. Neil Gesundheit, Stanford’s senior associate dean for medical education, spoke at Salvatierra’s memorial service in May. He embodied the successful intersection of clinical and bench research.”
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“He’s the reason I stayed so long at Stanford. He also developed methods that enabled young children to be transplanted with adults’ kidneys, including those of their family members.Īt Stanford, Salvatierra mentored many students, researchers and clinicians, including transplant surgeon Minnie Sarwal, now at UCSF. By the early 2000s, he completed clinical trials for a new steroid-free technique that has been widely adopted. There, he questioned the use of steroids for immune suppression in children, due to the drugs’ life-altering side effects. Salvatierra was part of a group of surgeons and staff who moved to Stanford in 1994 to establish the pediatric liver and kidney transplantation program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. “Everybody wanted to be Oscar’s OR nurse because of the way he approached patients.” “We nurses knew he was a superior, caring physician,” Pam recalls. The couple met at UCSF, where he was chief of transplant service from 1974 to 1991 and she, a registered nurse, worked as transplant coordinator. His war experience endowed him with a powerful empathy for the suffering of adults and children alike, says his wife, Pam. service members at MASH units and volunteered at a Vietnamese hospital for pediatric war victims.
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He attributed his condition to exposure to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam, where he treated U.S. In 2005, he developed tremors signaling the Parkinson’s disease that would end his surgical career and eventually lead to his death. Oscar Salvatierra Jr., professor emeritus of surgery and of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, died March 16 at his home in Menlo Park. Gentle hands and a deep concern for patients marked Oscar Salvatierra’s career as it moved from combat surgery in Vietnam to an innovative pediatric kidney transplant program at Stanford.