Adib Jatene

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Adib Jatene
Born	(1929-06-04)June 4, 1929 Xapuri, Acre, Brazil
Died	November 14, 2014(2014-11-14) (aged 85) São Paulo, Brazil

Adib Domingos Jatene (June 4, 1929 – November 14, 2014) was a noted

Jatene was born on June 4, 1929, in the city of Xapuri in the Brazilian state Acre. He was the son of Lebanese immigrants, Domingos Antonio Jatene and Anice Adib Jatene. His father was a merchant who traded with rubber tappers. Jatene's father died from yellow fever when Jatene was 2 years old. The family subsequently moved to the city Uberlândia in the Brazilian state Minas Gerais where his mother established a business.^[1]

In 1947, Jatene then moved to São Paulo, where he studied sciences at the Colégio Bandeirantes de São Paulo. At the age of 23, Jatene graduated from the University of São Paulo Faculty of Medicine. After graduation, he remained in São Paulo for two years of cardiac surgery training at the São Paulo University Hospital under the guidance of Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini until 1955.^[1]

Career

Jatene was one of the founders of the

He became Secretary of Health of the city of São Paulo and later Minister of Health of Brazil for both the Fernando Collor de Mello and Fernando Henrique Cardoso administrations. During his time as minister, he idealized the CPMF tax aimed at financing the health system.^[2]

He was a member of the

Death

Jatene died on November 14, 2014, of a

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