Julio José Gustavo Sardagna (1932 — 2009) was an Argentine neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

 and neurosurgeon.

Sardagna was born in Ensenada

Ensenada, Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

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. He received a Doctorate of Medicine and Ph.D.

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 from the National University of La Plata School of Medicine in 1958 and 1960, respectively. Sardagna was a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

in the region and a founding member of the College of Neurosurgeons of the Province of Buenos Aires (1959).