Alfredo Jadresic

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Jadresic and the second or maternal family name is Vargas.

Alfredo Arturo Jadresic Vargas (born 18 September 1925) is a Chilean former professor of medicine. As a high jumper he competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1]

Medical career[]

Jadresic qualified in medicine and was professor of medicine at the University of Chile, and Dean of Medicine from 1968 to 1972. In September 1973, after the coup d'état, he was arrested and spent 51 days in the National Stadium, but was released with no charges but 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,[2] where he specialized in endocrinology at the University of Chile.[3]


References[]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alfredo Jadresic". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. ^ Alfredo Jadresic (1980) "Doctors and torture: an experience as a prisoner" J. Med. Ethics 6, 124-127
  3. ^ Jardresic, Alfredo; Ojeda, César; Pérez, Gilberto (2002). Psiconeuroendocrinología [Psychoendocrinology] (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Mediterraneo.
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