Gian Luigi Vaccari, former head of medicine in Suzzara, died

SUZZARA. The professor died on Saturday 9 January 2021, in the cardiology department of the Policlinico di Modena Gian Luigi Vaccari. He was 87 years old. From 1975 to 1995 he was the head physician of the former “Montecchi” hospital in via Cadorna in Suzzara. The funeral will take place tomorrow at 2.30 pm in the abbey church of San Pietro in Modena. He graduated from the University of Modena in 1957 and specialized in Hematology and Geriatrics. He was also a lecturer in Medical Semeiotics, the discipline that studies clinical symptoms and signs in times when there were no diagnostic tools such as CT and ultrasound.

Professor Vaccari, a prepared, helpful and open-minded person, directed the departments of Medicine and Cardiology with zeal and seriousness, leaving a beautiful memory among his medical colleagues including doctors. Massimo Giovannini,Roberto Affini e Cesare Coppola but he has also worked well with those who, today unfortunately, are no longer there like Professor Pietro Zanini, head of surgery and cardiologist Dr. Carlo Calestani. When he arrived in Suzzara in 1975, technology was the younger sister. The first change that Professor Vaccari wanted to make was to open the clinics to all aids and assistants. His first “battle” was the purchase of a gastroscope but he worked hard to update the tests and speed up the laboratory tests. Later came a bronchoscope, then a pneumograph and finally a device to monitor blood pressure continuously. Due to the lack of some hospital technologies, Vaccari often asked for consultations from major hospitals.

He has held the position of medical director of the Suzzara hospital several times. From 1975 to 1978 he taught at the School of Generic Nursing and subsequently at the School of Retraining of Generic from 1980 to 1985 and finally he taught Medical Pathology at the Red Cross school of professionals from 1988 to 1995. Once he retired, he returned to his Modena , to devote himself entirely to the family. Despite this, however, he continued medical activity only for friends and relatives. Professor Vaccari was also a man of culture, he loved the great themes of history, of which he was a great reader but he was also passionate about art: he delighted in painting pictures. In particular, in December, he loved to paint a Christmas subject which he then had photographed, transforming his work into greeting cards to send to friends, colleagues and relatives. Leave his wife Anna Vittoria Casati, their children Luigi, Giannina and Elena and eleven grandchildren. – .