Medicine science and art have always been together in the life of this medical professional, today one of the most outstanding representatives of The Brazilian Plastic Surgery. His father, who was a poet, provided him with the opportunity to get in contact with literature since his early childhood. This fact opened up the road for his experience with all the other artistic manifestations. The value of helping the others is the leading maxim of Volney Pitombo’s life: the close liaison between medicine and art and the use of both aiming at helping the others.
Brought up among books, he had the opportunity to have a close contact with Jorge Amado, Zélia Gattai, Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. He attended the University College in London, where he completed his studies. After a few years achieving successful results in his work, he was acknowledged as one of the top plastic surgeons, mainly in Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. Everyday, artists, journalists, politicians, people from high society, international celebrities and patients of all ages come to Dr. Pitombo’s clinic. They all feel confident their problems will be properly solved since they have seen or heard about the results of his work from other patients.
The excellence of his work has constantly been acknowledged in the Brazilian press and he is frequently referred to by the press as “the surgeon of the stars”.
His clinic has a permanent atmosphere of simplicity and peace. This is felt either in the installations, in his smiling staff or even because of his personal sweet and kind manners. He practices meditation believing that the search for spiritual values should always be present in everyone’s life.
Music is one of his passions, and he is particularly very fond of classical music. His favorite composers are Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin. A great opera devotee, he considers this art form one of the most complete artistic manifestation.
Close contact with nature is his perfect form of relaxation, thus turning gardening into his favorite pastime.
Between conferences, he does not miss an opportunity to develop more research about his art, which he performs listening to Mozart reaffirming even more the strong link between medicine and art in his life.
Kind, cordial and easygoing, he believes that his effort has been crowned without deliberately aiming at being famous or becoming well-known. His objective has always been the medical practice and, consequently, doing the best as possible the work he has elected to make his life meaningful.
