Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Alberto Ciancia, MD

2021; Elsevier BV; Volume: 25; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jaapos.2021.11.002

1528-3933

M. Felisa Shokida,

Ophthalmology and Visual Health Research

Alberto Ciancia, MD, died on August 28, 2021, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born January 26, 1924, in Villa Iris, Bahia Blanca, Argentina. His wife Marta Muller, who supported him with great affection at the beginning of his career, and their son Juan Roque predeceased him. Dr. Ciancia is survived by his wife of 35 years, Yolanda Penerini, and two girls, Salome and Melina and three grandchildren.In his spare time, he was a glider pilot and sailboat crewman. He enjoyed sailing and fishing. He traveled greatly and was a voracious reader of poetry, music, novels, and nonfiction as well as current literature and classics. He often spent time in a summer retreat with his family and enjoyed peaceful vacations in Carilo.He graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires as a kinesiologist in 1948 and as a physician in 1957. He was chairman of the Ophthalmology Department at the Children’s Hospital of Buenos Aires from 1975 to 1979. In 1962, he described a form of strabismus that bears his name, “Ciancia syndrome.”He maintained membership in numerous strabismus societies throughout his prestigious career in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Spain, Paraguay, Ecuador, and Chile. He attended several AAPOS meetings and delivered a named lecture at the Palm Springs meeting. He also danced at the meeting in Asilomar—along with Marshall Parks, John Pratt-Johnson, Alan Scott and others—memorialized in a famous photograph of these giants in the field.Dr. Ciancia dedicated his life to improving vision care for children and cofounded the Argentine Association for the Study of the Recovery of the Blind and the Amblyopic (ASAERCA) in 1971. He was a cofounding member and president of Centro Argentino de Estrabismo CAE 1966-1968 and CLADE, the Latin American Strabismus Congress, 1968-1971.He served as president of the Argentine Ophthalmology Council (1980-1984), of the Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Society (1988-1990), and of the Pan American Association Comité de Educacion Permanente (1989-1993). He was president of the International Strabismological Association from 1974 to 1978. He presented the Bielchowsky Lecture in 1994 and the Phillip Knapp Lecture in 2000. In 1983, he founded the Paediatric Ophthalmology Foundation.He wrote and collaborated on several books, including Secuelas sensoriales del estrabismo, Les séquelles sensorielles du strabisme, Ortoptica y pleoptica, and Elementos de oftalmología. He also authored many articles and served as assistant editor of the Journal of Binocular Vision and Survey of Ophthalmology.Dr. Ciancia was a dedicated teacher and trained over 100 of Argentina and South America’s leading ophthalmologists, including Nelida Melek, Lydia Gurovich, Carlos Souza Dias, and Julio Prieto-Diaz. The first fellowship training program of Strabismus in Argentina was chaired by Drs. Ciancia, Melek, and Lavin at the Salvador University in Buenos Aires. Alberto Ciancia, MD, died on August 28, 2021, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born January 26, 1924, in Villa Iris, Bahia Blanca, Argentina. His wife Marta Muller, who supported him with great affection at the beginning of his career, and their son Juan Roque predeceased him. Dr. Ciancia is survived by his wife of 35 years, Yolanda Penerini, and two girls, Salome and Melina and three grandchildren. In his spare time, he was a glider pilot and sailboat crewman. He enjoyed sailing and fishing. He traveled greatly and was a voracious reader of poetry, music, novels, and nonfiction as well as current literature and classics. He often spent time in a summer retreat with his family and enjoyed peaceful vacations in Carilo. He graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires as a kinesiologist in 1948 and as a physician in 1957. He was chairman of the Ophthalmology Department at the Children’s Hospital of Buenos Aires from 1975 to 1979. In 1962, he described a form of strabismus that bears his name, “Ciancia syndrome.” He maintained membership in numerous strabismus societies throughout his prestigious career in Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Spain, Paraguay, Ecuador, and Chile. He attended several AAPOS meetings and delivered a named lecture at the Palm Springs meeting. He also danced at the meeting in Asilomar—along with Marshall Parks, John Pratt-Johnson, Alan Scott and others—memorialized in a famous photograph of these giants in the field. Dr. Ciancia dedicated his life to improving vision care for children and cofounded the Argentine Association for the Study of the Recovery of the Blind and the Amblyopic (ASAERCA) in 1971. He was a cofounding member and president of Centro Argentino de Estrabismo CAE 1966-1968 and CLADE, the Latin American Strabismus Congress, 1968-1971. He served as president of the Argentine Ophthalmology Council (1980-1984), of the Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Society (1988-1990), and of the Pan American Association Comité de Educacion Permanente (1989-1993). He was president of the International Strabismological Association from 1974 to 1978. He presented the Bielchowsky Lecture in 1994 and the Phillip Knapp Lecture in 2000. In 1983, he founded the Paediatric Ophthalmology Foundation. He wrote and collaborated on several books, including Secuelas sensoriales del estrabismo, Les séquelles sensorielles du strabisme, Ortoptica y pleoptica, and Elementos de oftalmología. He also authored many articles and served as assistant editor of the Journal of Binocular Vision and Survey of Ophthalmology. Dr. Ciancia was a dedicated teacher and trained over 100 of Argentina and South America’s leading ophthalmologists, including Nelida Melek, Lydia Gurovich, Carlos Souza Dias, and Julio Prieto-Diaz. The first fellowship training program of Strabismus in Argentina was chaired by Drs. Ciancia, Melek, and Lavin at the Salvador University in Buenos Aires.