Alejandro Posadas

Alejandro Posadas (1870 to 1902) was an Argentine physician and surgeon who specialized in pediatric surgery. He is credited as the first person to film an operation and as the one who brought the first x-ray apparatus to Argentina. He was also the first to describe coccidioidomycosis, a fungal infection that was once called Posadas disease, and the fungus Coccidioides posadasii was later named in his honor. Posadas died of tuberculosis in France in 1902 while studying there, at the age of 31. His name lives on in the Hospital Nacional Dr. Alejandro Posadas in Morón, Argentina, which was named after him. His short career joined surgical practice with early medical imaging and the first description of an infectious disease.