Davide Giordano
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Davide Giordano (22 March 1864 Courmayeur – 1 February 1954 Venice) was an Italian surgeon historian of medicine and politician.
He came from a Waldensian family originally from Torre Pellice, the son of Giacomo and Susetta Hugon.
He was president of Ateneo Veneto, Venice's Institute of Science, Literature and Arts, multiple times (1919 - 1921, 1925 - 1929, 1938 - 1942).[1] He is noted for the proposition of the transglebellar-nasal approach to pituitary surgery, which was first practiced in 1909 in a patient with pituitary adenoma.[2]
He was the head of a surgical department at a hospital in Venice from 1894 to 1934. During World War I, he was a consultant surgeon in the Third Army.
He was among the promoters of the Italian Society of the History of Medicine and he became its second president from 1923 to 1938.[3] He was also president of the International Society for the History of Medicine from 1930 to 1936.[4]
