Professor Emeritus
On April 14, 2015 I was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus of the Escola Paulista de Medicina – EPM (São Paulo Medical School). This was my medical school. As they say in the United States, my Alma-Mater. My father was one of the founders of this Medical School, and I decided that this would be the school in which I would study Medicine. I spent six happy years there and graduated in 1955. After some training in otolaryngology here in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro, I spent three years at the Washington University in Saint Louis. I have been privileged to have had extraordinary teachers – Dr. Theodore Walsh, Dr. Walter Covell, Dr. Hallowell Davis, Dr. Richard Silverman, Dr. Ira Hirsh, Dr Joseph Ogura, Dr. Donald Eldredge, Dr. José Santiago Riesco McClure, Dr. Carl Sherrick Jr. ... And I was also privileged to do both clinical and research work in a rapidly changing specialty. There were other Brazilian otolaryngologists that were also specializing in otolaryngology in the