Silvano Raia

Silvano Raia was a Brazilian surgeon who specialized in diseases of the liver. Born on 1 September 1930, he became a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. He is credited as the first doctor to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation, which he accomplished in July 1989, a form of transplant in which part of the liver of a living person is given to a recipient. He died on 28 April 2026 at the age of 95. This entry rests on the short lead of his Wikipedia article, which does not describe his training, his posts or his later work in any detail, so those matters are left for a deeper pass rather than guessed here.