Acknowledgements
Dr. Sola feels that gratitude is an expression of the heart.
Sunset on a carriage with Mateo, Pedro,
Michelle and Guadalupe
He is well aware that he couldn’t have contributed as much as he has if it weren’t for many persons who helped him, supported and contributed to him along his life. His parents showed him the value of loving care, honesty, and of helping others. From a humble position and with many difficulties they sent him to a school where he could learn the English language and instilled the value of education. Without them, he would not be where he is and would not be who he is.
All 8 grandchildren with their Great Grandma
Through his professional life, he acknowledges and thanks profoundly many people. Drs. Braden Griffin and Francis Bednarek for teaching him so much and for highly supporting him in the early years. They served as early models and left a permanent and indelible example of what caring intensely means. Drs Roderic Phibbs and George Gregory were his mentors in his early steps in research and critical thinking at UCSF. They became considerate friends through the years and examples in life. Dr Joseph Kitterman, an asset and a great model with superb paradigms. Without them Dr. Sola’s professional life would have been very different.
Mateo is born and gets all the loving attention
of Michelle and Carolina
In Argentina, some of his colleagues and trainees in neonatology have become friends and have made valuable contributions to Dr. Sola’s career, persistent throughout the years. Among them are Drs. Diana Fariña, Pancho Duboscq, Isabel Kurlat, Gustavo Goldsmit, Liliana Bouzas, Gabriela Bauer, and others. Dr Diego Gutierrez, a pediatric cardio thoracic surgeon, showed him about humane care, commitment and professional honesty and integrity. Many nurses educated Dr. Sola in many aspects of neonatal care and some have remained friends for over 25 years. They are Ginny Raviotta, Ana Quiroga, a nurse “par excellence”, Fernanda Egan, Clara Gilli, Mirta Sosa, and several others. More recently Drs Hernán Cruz, Hernando Baquero and Fernando Cabañas have been outstanding supporters and advisors.
Three granddaughters
Paul Laveroni, Mauel Nolting and Marcela Taraciuk supported Dr. Sola in different and superb ways, and have been fundamental in important turning points of his life and of his career. In one way or another, they were mainstay for Dr. Sola’s continuing contributions to education, clinical care and research and for his professional career.
Dr. Ronald Goldberg, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Neonatology at Duke University, has been a great friend for over 24 years. He is a model of integrity and honesty in academic medicine and a concerned, caring and compassionate professional, clinical neonatologist and human being. His firendship and support have been and continue to be just one of those miracles of life.
Dad and the two guys, Ignacio and Augusto
Dr. Sola also feels deep gratitude to many families and newborn babies that through their difficult time in life gave him many important and ineffaceable lessons for life and death.
Dr. Sola thanks deeply his four loving children, Mariana, Carolina, Augusto Javier and Ignacio Pablo who have been there, loving and supporting, in good, bad and the roughest of times. Of course, his grand children have given him a new look towards life. His daughters Mariana and Carolina with their sick newborns Michelle, Pedro and Guadalupe have shown him the true meaning of newborn intensive care, team efforts and family centered care.
Augusto, “Augustito” and Marta
Dr. Sola has been married to Marta Rogido, also a neonatologist. Her insight, inner peace and loving soul have helped him grow day after day, a day at a time for many years.