Bohdan Pomahač
Czech plastic surgeon
Bohdan Pomahač (Czech pronunciation: [ˈboɦdan ˈpomaɦatʃ]; born 8 March 1971) is a Czech plastic surgeon. He led the team that performed the first full face transplant in United States and the third overall in the world.
Biography
Pomahač was born on 8 March 1971 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). His parents were a chemical engineer and a school teacher. The family lived in a small three-room apartment, and used to spend weekends at their weekend house in Morávka, a municipality in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids mountain range.
As a teenager, Pomahač became a passionate chess player, devoting as many as 40 hours a week to his hobby. He was inspired by Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov and made it to the major chess league in the country.
After finishing high school in Ostrava, Pomahač became a student at the Palacký University of Olomouc Faculty of Medicine. During the 6 years study, Pomahač went on exchange to Boston, United States, which influenced his subsequent career choice.
Pomahač left for the United States immediately after finishing his studies in the Czech Republic in 1996.
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