Samuel Zaltzman

Samuel Zaltzman Girshevich (December 20, 1932 – May 12, 2022) was a Mexican paediatric nephrologist. One of the founders of the country's National Institute of Pediatrics, he performed one of the first successful kidney transplants in Mexico.

In November 1964, he married Linda Rifkin.

Medical career Zaltzman trained as an internist at the School of Medicine, UNAM. In 1955, he completed his internship in the Department of Pathology at the General Hospital of Mexico, and was recognized as a surgeon by National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1956. He later specialized at the Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. In 1961, he interned at the Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades in Paris and continued his studies in kidney transplantation at the University Hospital of Birmingham, England, until 1963. of Mexico along with Herman Villarreal. That same year, he joined the medical staff at ABC Hospital.

In 1970, Zaltzman founded the nephrology service at the Mexican Institution for Assistance to Children (currently the National Institute of Pediatrics). This was one of three in the country—the others being led by doctors Gustavo Gordillo Paniagua at the Federico Gómez Children's Hospital of Mexico and Santos-Atheron at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) Children's Hospital.

Honors National Award for Medical Assistance from the Health Sector delivered by President José López Portillo (1980). The Hemodialysis and Kidney Transplant Unit of the National Institute of Pediatrics bears his name in recognition of his professional trajectory (2017). Recognition from the National Institute of Pediatrics for 50 years of service in favor of Mexican children in the service of the Federal Public Administration (2017).