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Davide Giordano

Italian physician and politician

Davide Giordano (22 March 1864 Courmayeur – 1 February 1954 Venezia) was an Italian physician and politician.

He came from a Waldensian family originally from Torre Pellice, the son of Giacomo and Susetta Hugon.

He was president of Ateneo Veneto, Venice's Institute of Science, Literature and Arts, from 1930 to 1932. He is noted for the proposition of the transglebellar-nasal approach to pituitary surgery, which was first practiced in 1909 in a patient with pituitary adenoma.

He was the head of a surgical department at a hospital in Venice from 1894 to 1934. During World War I, he was a consultant surgeon in the Third Army.

Preceded by Ferruccio Truffi	26th President of Ateneo Veneto 1919–1921	Succeeded by Giuseppe Jona
Preceded by Giuseppe Jona	President of Ateneo Veneto 1925–1929	Succeeded by Giovanni Bordiga

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