Biography

Dussaut, a native of Buenos Aires graduated as a physician from La Plata National University in 1952 and then trained in general surgery at the Hopital Broussais in Paris, France during 1953. Thereafter he was a resident in general surgery at the Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, TX until 1957. Upon return to Argentina he divided his time between private practice at the "Clinica Dussaut" founded in 1933 by his father and in the public hospitals, Hospital Argerich, Hospital Rivadavia, Instituto Nacional de Cirurgia Toracica y Cardiovascular and most recently Hospital Pirovano where he worked until 1993 when he retired from public activity.

Dussaut was the pioneer of cardiac pacing in Argentina and had an influence which extended throughout South America and by his membership in the International Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Society (ICPES) from 1972, was world wide. He founded the Latin American Society of Cardiac Pacing in 1979 while participating in the World Symposium in Montreal and was President of the Argentinian Society of Angiology in 1980 and a member of NASPE since 1988. He and Bernardo Lozada organized an annual basic tutorial course, in cardiac pacing between 1976 and 1984 and a national congress in Pinamar in 1981 and 1984. In 1982 he and Lozada co-authored the book "Marcapasos Cardiacos" which was the basic text concerning the discipline in Argentina. He participated in the organization of Latin American Congresses of cardiac pacing with colleagues in other countries: the first in 1985 in Buenos Aires and the second in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 with Fernando Lucchesse, the third in Punta del Este in 1993 organized by Leandro Segura and Cidio Halperin and the fourth in San Paulo, Brazil in association with Paulo Roberto de Almeida Gauch. In 1987 he won the endorsement of the ICPES to be the Secretary General and to host and organize a World Symposium in Buenos Aires during 1995. This was accomplished with Oscar Oseroff as the Chair of the Scientific Committee of Argentinian colleagues and was attended by some 2000 international and national participants, as an extremely successful event on the world stage, brought for the first time to a major city in South America.

He was a regular member of the Argentinian Academy of Surgery in 1972 and became Emeritus in 1990 and a National Honorary Member of the Argentine Medical Association from 1987. Among the awards he received were from the Argentine Academy of Surgery in 1972, the "Guy Feune de Colombi" in 1977, the "Daniel Salvador Mora Colomer" in 1978 and from the "Association Medica del Hospital Pirovano" in 1982.

He is survived by his wife Norma and two children.

- Hector Mazzetti MD
- Seymour Furman MD