The Celebrity Surgeon Who Used Love, Money, and the Pope to Scam an NBC News Producer. When Benita Alexander fell for celebrated doctor Paolo Macchiarini—while filming a documentary about him—she thought her biggest problem was a breach of journalistic ethics.
Dr Con Man: the rise and fall of a celebrity scientist who fooled almost everyone. Scientific pioneer, superstar surgeon, miracle worker – that's how Paolo Macchiarini was known for several years.
He was convicted on one felony count of "causing bodily harm," but received a suspended sentence of only a few years, which has yet to be imposed. The doctor is currently out of jail and living in Spain.
The surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has been convicted of causing bodily harm with an experimental transplant of a synthetic windpipe that he performed. Macchiariani, 63, was convicted for one of three procedures that he performed on stem cells patients for which he had been charged.
Macchiarini has been accused of unethically performing experimental surgeries, even on relatively healthy patients, resulting in fatalities for seven of the eight patients who received one of his synthetic trachea transplants.
Macchiarini was once a star surgeon in Sweden, hired by the Karolinska Institute (KI) and the Karolinska University Hospital to bolster the country's standing in regenerative medicine innovation.
She is currently an Executive Producer at Lion Television, producing true crime series like "Crimes Gone Viral" on Investigation Discovery.
She was married to John Noel, but they divorced in 2009 after staying together for six years. She fell in love with Dr. Paolo Macchiarini. The pair met on NBC's A Leap of Faith and started dating.
And the TV show's second season, announced earlier this month, will cover the podcast's third, with Edgar Ramirez playing Paolo Macchiarini, and This Is Us star Mandy Moore playing Benita Alexander, an investigative journalist who falls into a whirlwind romance with the doctor.
A Swedish court has found an Italian surgeon, once hailed for pioneering windpipe surgery, guilty of causing bodily harm to a patient, but cleared him of assault charges.
Dr Timothy Steel and his team at his St Vincent's practice are among the top practitioners of neurosurgery and spinal surgery in the world.
Margaret Ann Bulkley was a war hero, a medical pioneer, and defied all odds to become a brilliant surgeon. Born in a time when women were not permitted to pursue medicine, she disguised herself as a boy and never looked back. After graduating from medical school she enlisted in the British military.
A Colorado surgeon was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a teenage patient who died after being in a coma for 14 months, NBC News reported June 15. Geoffrey Kim, MD, a plastic surgeon, was found guilty June 14 of attempted reckless manslaughter and obstruction of telephone service.
I. A Most Interesting Man. The first meeting between Benita Alexander, an award-winning producer for NBC News, and Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, the famous transplant surgeon, took place at the bar at Boston's Mandarin Oriental hotel.
Macchiarini, a renowned leader in the field of regenerative medicine, took the medical world by storm when he built and implanted the world's first “bioartificial” windpipe. The procedure involved replacing a damaged trachea with a plastic replica that had been soaked in the patient's stem cells.
He Lied About Everything | Apple TV. The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit.
A new two-hour "20/20" reports on Benita Alexander, a television producer who fell head over heels in love with world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini while producing a report on his revolutionary new surgery technique.
A larynx and trachea transplant is a procedure that replaces a damaged voice box (larynx) and windpipe (trachea) with a new one. Your larynx enables you to speak, breathe, and eat. Your trachea connects your larynx to your lungs.
1. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a renowned physician, surgeon, and entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the field of medicine and healthcare. He was born in South Africa in 1952 and completed his medical training in Johannesburg before moving to the United States in the 1980s.
Dr Mambet Mamakeev. A 93-year-old doctor who has been operating on patients for nearly seven decades has been named the world's oldest surgeon in the 2021 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini had performed the world's first synthetic organ transplant, replacing a patient's trachea, or windpipe, with a plastic tube. The operation promised to reshape organ transplantation.