Alfredo Jadresic
{{Short description|Chilean high jumper (1925–2021)}}
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Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (18 September 1925 – 30 September 2021) was a Chilean scientist and professor of medicine.{{cite web |date=October 1, 2021 |title=Dr. Alfredo Jadresic Vargas Obituary |url=https://soched.cl/new/obituario-dr-alfredo-jadresic-vargas-q-e-p-d/?fbclid=IwAR3eWOwXpFGYDiKnFiLHgy5MxoIw9nu50g9Na4cctJWRaZkSom0hVFSbG08 |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=soched.cl}} As a high jumper he competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics,{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/alfredo-jadresic-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084020/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/alfredo-jadresic-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=1 July 2016}} and placed ninth.{{cite web | url = https://olympics.com/en/athletes/alfredo-jadresic-vargas |title = Alfredo Jadresic Vargas}}
Personal life
Jadresic was born in Iquique in September 1925. He came from a family of Croatian (Dalmatian) origin.{{cite web | url = http://www.studiacroatica.org/branka_goic/Branka_Goic_Cileanski.htm |title = Čileanski pisci hrvatskog porijekla| trans-title = Chilean writers of Croatian origin}} He died in Santiago on 1 October 2021, at the age of 96.{{cite web |title=Universidad de Chile despide al médico y profesor emérito Alfredo Jadresic - Universidad de Chile |url=https://www.uchile.cl/noticias/180203/u-de-chile-despide-al-medico-y-profesor-emerito-alfredo-jadresic |website=uchile.cl |date=October 2021 |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en}} According to another source 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.{{cite journal | doi=
| last1 = Jadresic| first1 = Alfredo
|title = La Facultad de Medicina en el periodo 1968-1972. Memoria del Decanato
| language =Spanish
| trans-title = The Faculty of Medicine in the period 1968–1872. Deanery Report
| journal = Rev. Méd. Chile
| volume = 101|pages = 787| year = 1973
}} 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,{{cite journal | doi= 10.1136/jme.6.3.124
| last1 = Jadresic| first1 = Alfredo
| title = Doctors and torture: an experience as a prisoner
| journal= J. Med. Ethics
| volume =6|pages = 124–127|year = 1980
| issue = 3| pmid = 7420381| pmc = 1154821}} where he specialized in endocrinology at the University of Chile.
{{cite journal | doi= 10.1210/jcem-25-5-686
| last1 = Jadresic V.| first1 = A
| title = Therapeutic Hypopituitarism Induced by Stereotaxic Transfrontal Implantation of Yttrium-90 in Patients with Breast Cancer
| last2 = Poblete | first2 = M
| last3 = Reid | first3 = A
| first4 = Melchor |last4 = Riera
|first5 = Aurora | last5 = Matus
| first6 = María|last6 =Herreros
| journal = J. Clin. Endocrinol.
| volume = 25| pages = 686–697| year =1965
| issue = 5| pmid = 14313763}}{{cite journal
| doi = 10.1210/jcem-27-10-1503
| last1 = Jadresic | first1 = A
| last2 = Poblete | first2 = M
| title = Stereotaxic pituitary implantation of yttrium-90 and iridium-192 for acromegaly
|journal = J. Clin. Endocrinol.|volume = 27|pages = 1503–1507 | year = 1967
| issue = 10 | pmid = 4862202 }}{{cite book |isbn= 978-956-220-174-2
| last1 = Jadresic| first1 = Alfredo
| last2 = Ojeda| first2 = César
| last3 = Pérez| first3 = Gilberto
| title = Psiconeuroendocrinología| language = Spanish| trans-title = Psychoendocrinology| publisher = Mediterraneo| year = 2002
| location = Santiago, Chile}}
| last1 = Jadresic| first1 = Alfredo
| last2 = Banks|first2 = L M
| last3 = Child| first3 = D F
| title = The acromegaly syndrome — relation between clinical features, growth hormone values and radiological characteristic of the pituitary tumours
|journal = Q. J. Med.
| volume =51 |pages =189| year = 1982
}}{{cite journal | doi= 10.1177/014107688307601112
| last1 = Jadresic| first1 = Alfredo
| title = Recent developments in acromegaly: a review
| journal = J. R. Soc. Med.
| volume = 76|pages =947–956
| year = 1983
| issue = 11| pmid = 6138432| pmc = 1439630
}} Jadresic gave an account of his career and life in a book published in 2007.{{cite book| isbn= 978-956-8303-65-5 | author = Jadresic, Alfredo | title = Historia de Chile en la vida de un médico | date = 2007 | publisher = Catalonia | place = Santiago}}
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Category:Chilean people of Croatian descent
Category:Olympic athletes for Chile
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Chilean male high jumpers
Category:Chilean expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:Sportspeople from Iquique