Alexandru Pesamosca

Alexandru Pesamosca (1930 to 2011) was a Romanian surgeon and pediatrician who worked as a medic at the Marie Sklodovska-Curie hospital in Bucharest, formerly known as the Budimex hospital. He was the leading surgeon for more than 50,000 operations on children at that hospital and at other medical facilities in Romania and abroad. Born in Constanta, the son of a Romanian Royal Navy officer, he studied medicine in Bucharest and took his MD in 1954. He was awarded the National Order of Faithful Service at Commander rank in 2000, was the patron of the church built in the hospital courtyard, and was buried there after his death in 2011.