Alexandru Pesamosca

Who was Alexandru Pesamosca?

Alexandru Pesamosca was a Romanian surgeon and pediatrician, medic at the Marie Sklodovska-Curie Hospital in Bucharest, Romania. He was the leading surgeon of over 50,000 medical operations on children at this hospital, other medical facilities in Romania and outside the country.

He was the patron of the Cuviosul Stelian şi Sfântul Nicolae-Brâncoveanu Church built in the backyard of the hospital. In the summer of 2011 he was hospitalized in the Floreasca Hospital for cardiac and renal problems. He died there on 1 September 2011, aged 81.