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articles of historical and political interest in Italy and
Germany. The Piedmontese mother, despite humble beginnings, cultivated studies becoming a primary school teacher. They married in Turin on April 3, 1926. Luisa Maria Elena Massimo was born on December 22, 1928. In 1931 her sister Elena Maria Laura was born. In 1933 the father won the tender for the construction of the Institute Giannina Gaslini, defining event for the economy of the family business of building materials. In 1935 Germany began the race first persecution of the Jews and family Massimo was a lifeline for many of them. On March 13, 1938 the Nazis occupied Vienna and began the Holocaust. This tragic event also touched the family of Luisa Massimo. During the
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But in my heart, looking in the mirror the days of my life, the people I have met in any part of the world, efforts to honor the values I believe in, the choice of medicine as the reason of my life and the desire to spend myself for the youngest patients and less curable, I feel that my parents and
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One day in 1942, a young girl 14 years old makes a deal with herself under the olive trees on a hill watching the sea and the coast of
Portofino. If she will survive the war, she would study medicine, she wished to become a good doctor devoted to research. Just to reach her objective she promised
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Her father was born in Trento, and was a great lover of classical music since his youth. After internment at
Katzenau during the First World War, he was enlisted in the Inter-Allied Commission, and remained at the Italian diplomatic service until 1923. Graduated in design, he wrote a number of
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Austria with most of his family. After his death he received great honors, a street and the conference room of the Library of Badia Polesine where he was born were named after him. Two of his paintings are exhibited at the Ă–sterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna art museum.
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Gaslini in Genoa. She focused the postgraduate School of Pediatrics in a year. She specialized on 1955 with 60/60 cum laude with a thesis of experimental Oncology. In 1958 she was assigned by Professor
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America. Luisa Massimo's great-grandfather Giovanni Battista Mantovani studied Medicine at the end of the 18th century at the
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was a continuous help. Luisa Massimo and Renée Maurus of Brussels urged her for the creation of a Society of pediatric oncology. SIOP was founded in Paris in 1968. The first congress of the
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in several universities in Europe and other continents (Spain, Germany, Nigeria, Brasil, Mexico, Iceland, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, India, Japan, Australia, China, Ecuador, Jamaica).
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A member of several scientific commissions (national and international), she has published 300 scientific works including 220 indexed on
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