Surgical Career
Dr. Raposo do Amaral returned to Campinas, Brazil, where he structured the plastic surgery department at UNICAMP and founded SOBRAPAR (Brazilian Society for Research and Care for Craniofacial Rehabilitation) in 1979. SOBRAPAR is better known nowadays for its Institute of Craniofacial Plastic Surgery, pioneering philanthropic institution in the scientific research and treatment of major craniofacial deformities in South America.
He also founded and organized the plastic surgery department at Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUCCAMP) in 1980, the plastic surgery service at the Hospital Infantil Álvaro Ribeiro, the center for treatment of burns of Paulinia's Municipal Hospital, the scientific departments of plastic surgery of the Sociedade de Medicina e Cirurgia de Campinas and the Associação Paulista de Medicina, among others. He was one of the founders and director of the São Paulo Chapter of Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (1986–1987) as well as of its Chapter of Craniofacial Plastic Surgery. In addition, he had a busy private practice with his wife and collaborator, Dr. Vera Adami Raposo do Amaral, a noted psychologist and university professor specializing in psychological aspects of craniofacial disorders in children.
Dr. Raposo do Amaral was highly regarded as an extraordinarily skilled surgeon and was one of the few in Latin America who dared to operate on the most difficult cases of severe and rare craniofacial fissures, sometimes requiring the entire disassembling and reconstruction of the human face, in surgical interventions which required 8 hrs or more. He and his collaborators developed many new surgical approaches to the treatment of craniosynostosis using gradual bone distraction, to facial rejuvenation, to synthetic bone prostheses, as well as research on the application of computer-based 3D surgical planning, the experimental investigation of release of silicone from breast implants, etc. At SOBRAPAR, one of the few hospitals dedicated to craniofacial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the world, he was a pioneer in creating a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to the integrated management of craniofacial disorders, putting together an excellent team composed of neurologists, neurosurgeons, orthopedists, plastic surgeons, laryngologists, ophthalmologists, dentists, psychologists, speech therapists, physical therapists, biologists, nurses, social assistants, and so on.
He was also the founder, with Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini and Dr. Valdenize Tiziani, and the scientific editor of The Online Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the first on-line journal of this area, and a member of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Plastic Surgery and of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.
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